Education Experiences Abroad: agosto 2017

domingo, 27 de agosto de 2017

A bit more of Norway...

It would have been a crime stay in Norway without visiting some of the touristic spots in the country... Bergen and Lofoten islands were too far away, the country is much bigger than I expected, nevertheless I rented a car and planned a trip to Geiranger Fiord for the weekend...

Link to Blurb Album

viernes, 25 de agosto de 2017

Technology at Markaplassen Skole

Mette, the Technology teacher, showed me some of the projects they do and how they work with Lego and robotics...

Robotics

jueves, 24 de agosto de 2017

Life at Markaplassen Skole

Reception

Students have class from 8,15 to 14,15h. They have lunch at school but in Markaplassen skole they don't have a cantine so students just bring a sandwich or something to eat during the second break (11:35h to 12:40h) . As most European countries, they will have dinner around 18h at home!

THis is a typical Schedule... There are two groups at the same time since there are two classes together separated by pannels of glass and sometimes they join.

The number of students is not much lower than in Spain... They are around 25-28 and can even reach 30, so they have the same "ratio" problems...

Teachers also teach more hours than us, around 24hours per week and have a lot of burocracy too.

When a teacher is missing suddenly, they manage as they can...there are not "profesores de guardia" but when they know it in advance they call for a substitution even if it is only for one day.

Teachers are not really civil servants, they have an interview with the principal...

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I attended some classes with Alex, Spanish and English teacher... It was not allowed to take pictures of students, that's why they don't appear on the photograps...

Tables for working in groups

New Technologies in the classroom. They can use laptops from the school, although they don't always work properly...

Modern PDI and Projectors

When school time finish students put their chairs on the tables

And just a last observation: students behaviour was not much better than ours!! Some teachers told me that there is now a debate about increase discipline.

During Break Time, teachers in change of looking after students wear this top.

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miércoles, 23 de agosto de 2017

Welcome at Markaplassen Skole

Markaplassen Skole is a compulsory secondary shcool (Ungsomsskoke) with students drom 12/13 to 15/ years old. It has around 500 students and 50 teachers. THey have levels 8th, 9th and 10th with six groups per level. After that, students will go to a Vidergaende Skole to continue studies before going to university.

As it was the first week of classes, teachers in general and specially the principal were quite busy and I didn't have the oportunity to share too much with them...