What's the difference between compulsory courses and elective courses in high school?

Compulsory courses focus on the formation of knowledge, skills and quality, laying the foundation for students' lifelong development, while elective courses focus on broadening their horizons, deepening their knowledge and skills, and developing their specialties and personalities.

2. Different teaching functions

Compulsory courses impart basic scientific and cultural knowledge, skills and technologies, cultivate basic qualities, and lay the foundation for individualized development and lifelong learning. Elective courses pay attention to the expansion and deepening of subject knowledge, meet students' interests and hobbies, and develop students' personalities and specialties.

3. Different teaching contents

Compulsory courses emphasize the fundamentality, fundamentality, systematicness and integrity of knowledge and skills, and the content is relatively stable, while elective courses focus on deeper, broader and newer knowledge and skills and major issues in contemporary social life, which are flexible and must be adjusted in time with the changes of the times and the requirements of students.

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