Indian Education Vs American Education Essay

The establishment of the new “paradigm shifting” curriculum in Indian schools has caused a havoc with the parents and academically high achieving students to have been made Indian education “too creative”. The employment of this new style of teaching gives more power to the school and teachers and insists on improving the child”s creative side along with his or her academics. CCE (continuous and comprehensive Education) is said to have been partially inspired by the American Curriculum in many forums, and for this reason is improving the performance of students who are not exactly “good at studying”. The American and Indian education systems are different and similar in plenty of ways but deciding one”s superiority over the other is a more difficult task.

The medium of instruction in Indian schools are mostly textbook and lecture based delivered through a black board and chalk. Using of computers is generally restricted to only during the course of the computer science class. The students only guide to completing their tons of homework is their lecture notes and textbooks, which lays an enormous of pressure on the student and force them to “mug” the contents of the topics for a good grade instead of understanding and applying its properties. On the other hand, the American system encourages variety of teaching aids, multimedia, …show more content…
This concept is foreign to an Indian student because all their resources revolves around their class teacher or the subject teacher. Also, in American Schools, special attention is given to children with special needs in the same study environment called “Inclusion Education”. Where they are assigned to certified individual teachers who give them the focus they need to progress just like the other kids where as “Inclusion Education” is not implemented Indian