About Curriculum and Textbooks I want to write something about little differences of American and Chinese elementary schools. Would you help me to check it out? Thank you very much! In United States, each school/ school district develops its own curriculum and learning materials based on the state GLCEs and common cores. There are no nation-wide or state-wide textbooks. Schools/ districts have their own choice of which supplementary books they want to use. There are several benefits for this: • Teachers have more choices of what learning materials can best serve for their teaching. • Learning and teaching become more creative. In China, there are national curriculum and even textbooks for all the students. It is allowed that some provinces develop their own curriculum and textbooks. Students hold the same textbooks at least in the same province. There is a group of professors work together to develop the learning materials, including students’ textbooks, teachers’ guide, and students’ workbook, etc. It depends on different schools if they want teacher’s guide or students’ workbook, but students’ textbooks are a must for each students. There are several benefits for unified textbooks: • It helps teachers to saves a great amount of time to prepare a class. • If a student transfers to another school in a province, he/ she can just bring the textbooks because that will be just the same. It is not totally a new situation academically.