EDUC1029 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Selective School
EDUC Lecture Week 8
Assignment 3
• Socio-cultural factors
• Choose
• Discuss
• Identify factors
• Single out standards
• Relate chosen standards to course ideas
• Respond to the different factors
• Using of news articles, youtube, blogs – how society responds
• Popular media – rich overview of how it is viewed
• Back it up with academic sources
• http://www.aitsl.edu.au/australian-professional-standards-for-teachers
• What does the literature say about the problems and how it can be applied to the real world
• Asking teachers to take things into consideration
• Deeper ability to bring ideas together
• One concept to explain another
Finland:
• Late start (6 or 7 years old)
• Comprehensive schools (every school is essentially the same
• Minimal testing (report card every term, testing at the end of school)
• No streaming (same type of school and class)
• Minimal homework
• High autonomy teachers
• High status in society
• Masters degrees needed (take longer than usual for degree)
• Very selective entry into teacher training OP1
• Stay with one class for up to 7 years – idea that teacher should carry through with the
students
• No private schools in Finland
• Finland constantly at the top of testing and educational outcomes
• Able to export schooling or not
• Sense of teacher as real professionals
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