Thanks for sharing your experience and the education system in Finland.. thank you guru sr.. On Mar 25, 2016 9:35 PM, "Ashoka Kamath" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Our pre schools are compelling students to write alphabets and words..even > conduct exams > > we are depriving our kids from enjoying their childhood > > we must follow the system of Finland. and writing and such activities > should be done after the age of 7 only > > when this will happen? who will bell the cat?? how to convince the > parents??? > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:16 PM, N NAGARAJ <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Gurumurthy K" <[email protected]> >> Date: Mar 21, 2016 10:21 AM >> Subject: [ms-stf '55792'] Why Finland has the best schools >> To: "mathssciencestf" <[email protected]>, >> "socialsciencestf" <[email protected]>, "stfurdu" < >> [email protected]>, "karnataka_teachereducators" < >> [email protected]>, < >> [email protected]>, "kannadastf" < >> [email protected]>, "englishstf" <[email protected]>, >> "tsmathsscienceupstf" <[email protected]>, "tsstf" < >> [email protected]>, "apswreis" <[email protected]>, < >> [email protected]>, <[email protected]>, >> <[email protected]>, "hindistf" < >> [email protected]>, "htfkarnataka" <[email protected]>, >> <[email protected]>, < >> [email protected]> >> Cc: "koer" <[email protected]> >> >> > Dear teachers >> > >> > article worth reading and thinking about and discussing.... comments >> welcome.... >> > >> > regards >> > Guru >> > >> > The Harvard education professor Howard Gardner once advised Americans, >> “Learn from Finland, which has the most effective schools and which does >> just about the opposite of what we are doing in the United States.” >> > >> > I enrolled my 7-year-old son in a primary school in Joensuu, Finland. >> For five months, my wife, my son and I experienced a stunningly >> stress-free, and stunningly good, school system. Finland has a history of >> producing the highest global test scores in the Western world, as well as a >> trophy case full of other recent No. 1 global rankings, including most >> literate nation. >> > >> > In Finland, children don't receive formal academic training until the >> age of 7. Until then, many are in day care and learn through play, songs, >> games and conversation. Most children walk or bike to school, even the >> youngest. School hours are short and homework is generally light. >> > >> > Unlike in the United States, where many schools are slashing recess, >> schoolchildren in Finland have a mandatory 15-minute outdoor free-play >> break every hour of every day. Fresh air, nature and regular physical >> activity breaks are considered engines of learning. According to one >> Finnish maxim, “There is no bad weather. Only inadequate clothing.” >> > >> > One evening, I asked my son what he did for gym that day. “They sent us >> into the woods with a map and compass and we had to find our way out,” he >> said. >> > >> > Finland doesn't waste time or money on low-quality mass standardized >> testing. Instead, children are assessed every day, through direct >> observation, check-ins and quizzes by the highest-quality “personalized >> learning device” ever created — flesh-and-blood teachers. >> > >> > In class, children are allowed to have fun, giggle and daydream from >> time to time. Finns put into practice the cultural mantras I heard over and >> over: “Let children be children,” “The work of a child is to play,” and >> “Children learn best through play.” >> > The emotional climate of the typical classroom is warm, safe, >> respectful and highly supportive. >> > >> > The emotional climate of the typical classroom is warm, safe, >> respectful and highly supportive. There are no scripted lessons and no >> quasi-martial requirements to walk in straight lines or sit up straight. As >> one Chinese student-teacher studying in Finland marveled to me, “In Chinese >> schools, you feel like you're in the military. Here, you feel like you're >> part of a really nice family.” She is trying to figure out how she can stay >> in Finland permanently. >> > >> > In the United States, teachers are routinely degraded by politicians, >> and thousands of teacher slots are filled by temps with six or seven weeks >> of summer training. In Finland teachers are the most trusted and admired >> professionals next to doctors, in part because they are required to have >> master's degrees in education with specialization in research and classroom >> practice. >> > >> > “Our mission as adults is to protect our children from politicians,” >> one Finnish childhood education professor told me. “We also have an ethical >> and moral responsibility to tell businesspeople to stay out of our >> building.” In fact, any Finnish citizen is free to visit any school >> whenever they like, but her message was clear: Educators are the ultimate >> authorities on education, not bureaucrats, and not technology vendors. >> > >> > Skeptics might claim that the Finnish model would never work in >> America's inner-city schools, which instead need boot-camp drilling and >> discipline, Stakhanovite workloads, relentless standardized test prep and >> screen-delivered testing. >> > >> > But what if the opposite is true? >> > >> > What if high-poverty students are the children most urgently in need of >> the benefits that, for example, American parents of means obtain for their >> children in private schools, things that Finland delivers on a national >> public scale — highly qualified, highly respected and highly >> professionalized teachers who conduct personalized one-on-one instruction; >> manageable class sizes; a rich, developmentally correct curriculum; regular >> physical activity; little or no low-quality standardized tests and the >> toxic stress and wasted time and energy that accompanies them; daily >> assessments by teachers; and a classroom atmosphere of safety, >> collaboration, warmth and respect for children as cherished individuals? >> > >> > Why should high-poverty students deserve anything less? >> > >> > One day last November, when the first snow came to my part of Finland, >> I heard a commotion outside my university faculty office window, which is >> close to the teacher training school's outdoor play area. I walked over to >> investigate. >> > >> > The field was filled with children savoring the first taste of winter >> amid the pine trees. My son was out there somewhere, but the children were >> so buried in winter clothes and moving so fast that I couldn't spot him. >> The noise of children laughing, shouting and singing as they tumbled in the >> fresh snow was close to deafening. >> > >> > “Do you hear that?” asked the recess monitor, a special education >> teacher wearing a yellow safety smock. >> > >> > “That,” she said proudly, “is the voice of happiness.” >> > >> > William Doyle is a 2015-2016 Fulbright scholar and a lecturer on media >> and education at the University of Eastern Finland. His latest book is “PT >> 109: An American Epic of War, Survival and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy.” >> > >> > source- Why Finland has the best schools >> > >> > regards, >> > Guru >> > IT for Change, Bengaluru >> > www.ITforChange.net >> > >> > -- >> > 1. 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