Often the assignments are open-ended and not really graded. Yet, the students work on it in class diligently. It is very interesting to see what happens to the students when they are given something to do. The students who were not listening to the lesson at all put away their phones and start working on the task set before them.
Even if it is just a suggested assignment, they give it their full attention up to the end of class. This is obvious. If you have fewer students you will be able to give them the care and attention they need to learn. A Finnish teacher will have about 3 to 4 classes of 20 students a day- so they will see between 60 to 80 students a day.
I see students every single day. I have 30 to 35 students in a class, six classes in a row, 5 days a week. Trust is key to this whole system not structure. Instead of being suspicious of one another and creating tons of structure, rules, hoops and tests to see if the system is working, they simply trust the system. Society trusts the schools to hire good Teachers. The schools trust the teachers to be highly trained individuals and therefore give them freedom to create the type of classroom environment that is best for their individual students.
The Teachers trust the students to do the work and learn for the sake of learning. The Students trust the teachers to give them the tools they need to be successful. Society trusts the system and gives education the respect it deserves.
Finland has it figured out. Less IS More. Thanks Kelly for that Wonderful information. Here in Tanzania, and probably whole East Africa the group of people suffer a lot of pressure are students. Those student who fail to pass are separated on different classes to have much more assignments, homework and punishments.
For five years student performance have keep dropping accompanied with lack of competence for majority of students who graduate. In general everything written in this article is contrary to our current education system but I have enjoyed it a lot because I have learned something really new.
Like Like. I am also a blogger, an ametur one I must say, I work in the field of education. I have written about the loopholes of the Indian education system and am going to write about what can be done to improve it with the help of your blog.
Do check my blog. I have two adult kids who went through the Finnish school system. I have to say, it was absolutely brilliant.
All the teachers were wonderful as were the facilities at the schools. University is free, too. I am an exchange student in Finland right now working on a research of the education system as well. It was wonderful to see all of your points which some I had not realized on my own yet. Thank you. It was also wonderful to read from a teachers perspective!! Jamil - The Future Trend.
Pingback: Finnish Schools? Pingback: What makes Finland special? As I read more of your posts, I see you are from Indiana. Indiana has one of the best K systems and that shows in your public higher education as well.
I think Indiana funds education better than other US states such as Arizona. While school quality in the USA does not always follow funding, there is some loose correlation.
I would not characterize US students as failing overall, although we seem to have some students slipping through the cracks in very low funded areas such as parts of Missouri.
We have a rich variety of private, public and pubic charter as well as a very strong home schooling movement across the USA. All these education models can work well. I think we see segregation in some inner city schools in some US cities. It was written about very well by a New York City Parent here:. Thank you for writing this! Three of my five children have graduated from high school 2 in idaho, 1 in California , with average GPAs and frankly, lots of frustration.
Key points that stood out to me… 1. Not only would this solve the crisis in education, it would create highly skilled workers in crafts and trades be it interior designers, writers, woodworkers, or electricians — students who are better at math and science would excel faster; boredom and bullying would cease to exist; higher education debt would drop significantly; teaching and learning would be rewarding again; and so much more!
My opinion-based conclusions after reading. Reblogged this on Searching For The Truth. Every day they have to pick up one word about the chapter. We have three big empty posters in our classroom. One for substantives, one for adjectives, one for verbs this could be also in digital environment, Padlet, Thinglink or something like that. The first week they pick up substantives in the chapter they read. During the first day we get 21 substantives, next day 21 new… At the end of the week it might be challenging to find new words, but I am confident we will!
Next week we search and find adjectives every day and on third verbs. I think we will make a little project then about all the words we collect word. Perhaps a creative wrintig with a word lottery? Or a school hunt? I think I will participate students and let them decide. Free for every student in primaries, lower and upper secondaries. I take a cup of coffee and talk with my colleagues. A break is very important to us teachers too! Relaxing our brains as well! This class is held with or without recess, depending on how the class seems to be needing a break.
I teach the other half, we have the soft materials. Eventually we manufacture a bucket or a message box made from those printed fabrics.
A snack or a coffee maybe. They will be followed by the middle part of the country, and finally northern Finland. Finnish pupils spend some of the least time at school compared to other OECD countries.
In , Finnish children aged spent an average hours in school a year, compared to an OECD average of hours. In England, the average was hours, in France, hours and in Japan, hours. In Finland, by law there can be school days, but official holidays usually decrease the number. During the school year there are normally four holidays. Local authorities have the right to determine when the school year begins, and often it starts in the middle of August.
Legislation says that the school year has to end on the Saturday of the 22nd week of the year, either at the very end of May or at the beginning of June. Because of the climate, Finns hold summer holidays sacred. The school day starts between 8 and 9am in the morning and finishes between 1 and 2pm in the afternoon. The class has 25 lessons a week. Each lesson is 45 minutes long. There are 3 hours and 45 minutes of instruction each day on average.
First and second grade students go to school for four hours per day and from that time they have 75 minutes of recess. Finland is leading the world in the best K12 public education while they have shorter school days and little to no homework. Finland School Holidays School holidays in Finland are different from region to region.
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