Monday, May 23, 2016
Monday, May 9, 2016
Book Study Part 1
"The Smartest Kids in the World and how they got that way" is a great book to read if you are wanting to learn more about teaching in other countries. This book is interesting to read about to me but it took me some time to get into it. Out of the three different students I relate most to Kim because she had her mind set on doing something and she didn't stop until she reached that goal. It sounded like an impossible task at first but Kim didn't stop until she new it would be possible to go to Finland.
I believe that the United States would greatly benefit if they adopted the same education format as Finland. Finland has just recently moved to the top ranking of the country with the smartest kids but they weren't always like that. They made a change in their system which worked. Finland doesn't assign homework for their students which allows them to focus more in school rather than be distracted with things outside the classroom like other work. In South Korea students are so focused on school that they don't spend time on sports like the U.S. does. Sports in South Korea are out of school activities and not focused on as much as the U.S. Students are so tired from working on school so much at home that they will fall asleep in class and the teachers don't see anything wrong with it. Poland also had teaching methods for their students that the U.S. would never consider because we are so technology dependent, students in Poland don't even use calculators for their classes while the U.S. can just pull it up on their phones whenever they need it.
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