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Samples: Active class or passive class Teacher-centered or Student-centered Class Exam-Oriented or Q uality-Oriented Active classes or Passive classes Although classes often seem alike in appearance, the differences between passive classes and active classes are enormous. The passive kind of class usually has a teacher who lectures, puts outlines and terms on the chalkboard and imparts information to the students. For example, my second-year biology teacher, rarely looked up from his notebook in which he had carefully written all his lectures. Teachers in a passive classroom simply dictate information and answers. They pour facts into the students like water into a pot. The students are usually forced to sit, listen, take note, and do only what the teacher requires them to. The other kind of class, the active one, usually has a teacher who stimulates the students to learn for themselves by asking questions, by deliberately posing problems, and most of all by being a student himself, too. Such a teacher might plan the outline of a course, but doesn’t direct the class in only one direction. Students in active classes become more involved in their learning; they ask questions and read books to search for some answers themselves, and then discuss what they have found in class. I prefer active class because learning becomes fun there. Although students may not care much about facts in classes, their attitudes toward learning and their excitement in discovering answers for themselves do not end with the class. Teacher-centered or Student-centered Class Today in China there exists side by side two different teaching patterns: A teacher-oriented class and a student-oriented one. And the differences between them are obvious. A teacher-centered class is a typical traditional passive class. No doubt it is a natural product of the deep-rooted examination-orientated education. And there are several characteristics in this kind of class. To begin with, a teacher is the