Grade Credit System And Curriculum Reform In The Study

The credit system is a system based on elective system and measures the learning load of students with their credits. It permits free election and emphasizes the development of personality and conducts management by objectives (MBO) and flexible educational system. All these are credit system's features. It has the functions of the role of guidance, regulation and encouragement and is a kind of flexible system of educational management that can adapt to the ontogenetic difference and individualized need. The success of the credit system in colleges and universities has proved that.In today's learning society, the secondary vocational schools bear responsibility for occupational preparation, improvement at working and preparation 'for professional transfer. What's more, students graduated from secondary vocational schools can begin to work or enter a higher school. Under these circumstances, the contradictions between the school year system of traditional school education and the individualized elective study turns more and more prominent. It is difficult to meet people's diversified needs without the credit system. To meet the needs of economic construction and social progress, to put quality education into practice and let all students benefit from it, to conform to social education and construct the system of social life learning, secondary vocational schools should exercise the credit system.Although both secondary vocational education and higher education belong to specialized education, during the course of pushing on the credit system, secondary vocational schools shouldn't indiscriminately imitate colleges and universities in practice and experience, but seek new ways that can meet the essential demands of the credit system and the reality of middle vocational education, because of the great difference of the nature of schools, the aim of education, the sources of students and the conditions of teaching. The important contents and characteristics of credit system in secondary vocational schools are the following: The system of courses is reconstructed with compulsory courses, elective courses with limitation and electivecourses without limitation. The quantity and quality are measured by credit and achievement. The much more difficult courses such as mathematics and English have classified demand and evaluation in order to meet the needs of students with different learning foundation and needs for development. All kinds of certificates permitted by society and achievement got by social practice and varied contests are involved in credits so that the credits' role of balance is developed fully. Flexible educational system is put into practice to build the bridge for the development and success of students. The independent managerial right of students is respected fully and the elective course system and tutor system are established and perfected.The essence of credit system is "the system of elective course". The flexible teaching program and courses should be developed and the students can choose courses freely. "Choosing" is only the form and the crux is the "course". The system of curriculum conducted in secondary vocational schools has some disadvantages, for example, the classification of every courses is too prominent; the contents are out of time; what the students study doesn't accord with what they need in practice and the form of curriculum is single, so it isn't adapted to the demands of educational aims in new era as so as the credit system. Therefore there isn't real credit system until the reform in curriculum system is carried out. A good curriculum system in credit system in secondary vocational school should possess the following main characteristics: flexibility, practicality, the trend of the times and diversity. Secondary vocational schools should adhere to the rules of all-round development, competence standard, teaching in accordance with students' aptitude, integrating production and teaching, overall improvement and combining integration with flexibility. Besides, it...