Both English schools and my school use the British system of GCSE and A Level for secondary. The main differences would be the number of students. In my school there is a total of 40 students in our secondary school so some classes are very small, the smallest being 3 students and the largest being 14. Being an International School some students are from Indonesia and the others from many different countries (mostly Asian). Some are good at English whereas a handful have very limited English. Apart from my English as a Second Language lessons, students are all combined into the same classes, with no special needs support for those who don't speak English. Students are from very wealthy backgrounds who are used to being looked after by maids, or driven around by drivers; this makes them a bit disorganised and they are used to being 'spoon fed'.
The school I teach in does not have the same strict rules as I remember British school having and there is a lot more freedom for the students, this makes it hard to enforce discipline.
The curriculum's are very similar, although we offer fewer subjects; 7 in total. We are a new school that is still growing and therefore the school is still 'testing the water', for example, last year was the first year students took their iGCSE and A Level exams and now there is talk of the school switching to the International Baccalaureate system.
Other than that, we have many resources available and our school strives to be as similar to the British system as possible.
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