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Wed, 27. Jul 22
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Date: Wednesday, 27. July 2022
Time: 12 o'clock
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Location: North Canton
Street: 3993 Rainbow Drive
Zip and city: North Canton
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I would like to organize this event so that elementary school teachers can enlist the help of best essay writing company and older kids and designate "recess activators" for their class who will take turns on playground duty, like my Finnish students Emmy and Marianne. Some may be skeptical of this idea. However, working in Helsinki, I have seen from my own experience that if you give the children an opportunity to participate in interesting movement games every day, they have a desire to be much more active on the playground. However, note that you must first prepare the "activators": make a small list of games that they will organize, and teach them to work with younger buddies. At the first stage, until the "activators" get used to their new role, you have to keep an eye on them and help them in any way you can.
- I remember when I taught first and second grade in Massachusetts, I had one student, a short, fidgety kid who just could not sit still. He seemed to want to jump up every time he had to sit at his desk and do his own work. In the end I let the boy work standing up, and his grades did not seem to suffer. Yes, of course, it is important for students, especially in elementary school, to acquire good handwriting and proper posture. However, I think it is just as valuable to give them the freedom to move around the classroom, to allow them to squirm or stand. I've heard that some schools are now buying special desks that allow them to work standing up. That seems like a good solution to me. But it is not necessary to spend a lot of money to buy expensive equipment: you can, for example, simply allow students to read books standing up, or distribute folders so that they can do assignments from different parts of the classroom.
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Although I worked full-time in Helsinki, that only amounted to 24 hours a week. And if you subtract my regular 15-minute breaks, I only had a total of 18 hours of studying. In Finland, that is the norm, whereas in the U.S. my colleagues and I used to spend 50% more time with our students. Statistics show that American teachers average 26.8 hours a week, which puts them ahead of their colleagues in the OECD countries.
At first, I thought that if Finnish teachers spend significantly less time in class, then they work more after school: preparing lessons, communicating with parents, and making all kinds of plans. This notion occurred to me because while working in the U.S. myself, I sometimes wished that I could go part-time (which looks like full-time work in Finland) so that I could have more time to prepare for lessons.
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