Change… Professional

30/04/2012

 In Sweden at this moment are working with a new curriculum, so it has been great to see this working within the classroom over the last couple of weeks.

Our curriculum seems to never stop changing back home. But I feel that the current curriculum is on the right lines. As it still has some focus on the main subjects but now with a more student centred approach. In Sweden they do not seem to have PDMU as a subject but more as just a way of life in the classroom, if one of the students wants to talk about something they are not happy about they talk about it and sometimes as a whole class approach. My teacher Lasse says he always tells the children not to say ‘not’ and so far they don’t. They never seem to moan about the work they have to do they just seem to get on with it.

Also a thing I have noticed within my classroom, I cannot say about the whole school, but there seems to be no bullying everyone helps everyone. My teacher told me that at the start when he first had the class that he makes them do different exercises to show that some people are better at different things than others but that they all have their individual strengths. I think this is something that I feel very strongly towards as I hate when a child thinks they are bad at something or insecure about themselves because others have made them feel like that. I feel it’s our jobs as teachers to enforce that each child is an individual and that they can do and be what they want. As a child’s happiness within the classroom is essential if they are going to learn.

There are only 16 students in my class and you can see the different groups of friends within that class but everyone gets on. I noticed it most when I had to pick pairs for some group work and no one complained about who they were with. This is something I always notice back home when there is paired work some of the children complain who they are working with and that is not nice for anyone to feel unwanted. So I have really come to see how passionate I am about the actually happiness of the children within my classroom and for each of them to feel and have a vital part within that. Pastoral care could be the module I will pick next year.

Until next time Hej då