Today we watched a documentary called The Finland Phenomenon. This documentary was put together by Tony Wagner and shows why Finland is the highest ranked country in the world in education and what the United States needs to do to move up in the world ranking of education and to better our future generations of students. The first thing which is huge is that Finland doesnt revolve the education around testing and in fact dont use it at all. The classrooms are more relaxed because of this and more personal in fact the students call the teachers by their first names in most cases. Another thing that leaped out me is the students classes are smaller making learning more personable and they get to spend more time on projects and such which cuts down on homework time. The third thing that really leaped out at me is that trust here is huge. In America if a teacher were to leave his students for 20 or so minutes and come back the class would be going crazy with talking and not doing work... here however the teachers trust the students so much that they can leave the room and the students keep right on working.
The Three ways how teachers are prepared in Finland are:
1.The students must get good grades to get accepted into college then get a high score on a entrance exam to get into the teaching program.
2. Teachers in Finland go through a five year course study.
3. The Training teachers have many in- class observation and inturn are critiqued as they critique others which helps build stronger teachers.
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