Ya it's really right On 21 Mar 2016 20:23, "nagaveni n" <naguyukth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ofter reading this article around 10m I was just quite....no words.... > On 21-Mar-2016 10:21 AM, "Gurumurthy K" <itfc.stfk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> <http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0318-doyle-finnish-schools-20160318-story.html> >> >> regards, >> Guru >> IT for Change, Bengaluru >> www.ITforChange.net >> >> -- >> 1. If a teacher wants to join STF, visit >> http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Become_a_STF_groups_member >> 2. For STF training, visit KOER - >> http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php >> 4. For Ubuntu 14.04 installation, visit >> http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Kalpavriksha >> 4. For doubts on Ubuntu, public software, visit >> http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/KOER/en/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions >> 5. Are you using pirated software? 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