Two days ago, I went to rovaniemi in northern Lapland and visited the affiliated school of Lapland University. Under the reception of the school, * * * attended three elementary school basic courses, namely, mathematics, Finnish history and music. I personally experienced Finland's "island-style" classroom concept, rich teaching assistant system and curriculum system, and teachers' student-centered teaching concept.
First of all, talk about the design of curriculum system. Because Finnish public schools have systematic curriculum design, there are almost no training institutions in Finland. I am in the second grade class of classroom primary school, with 8 subjects, Finnish, religion, mathematics, music and so on. Because Finland's examination system does not rank, there is no concept of main courses and sub-courses. All learning processes are the process of discovering your own interests. By the sixth grade, every student has to take at least three musical instrument classes, just for music. The school time is 6 hours every day, and the homework in primary school should not exceed 15 minutes, and the homework in junior high school should not exceed 30 minutes. Teachers spend13 of their time in class, followed by students' hands-on practice and active information retrieval, and then one-on-one tutoring by teachers. What needs to be added here is that the number of students in the two primary school courses I have attended is about 20, but there are four teachers. In addition to the permanent head teacher and teaching assistant, there are two interns majoring in normal education at Lapland University. Therefore, students can be given more targeted counseling in class.
In addition, what touches my teaching is that from primary school, teachers will encourage students to plant some small plants in the classroom (a little Montessori's idea), and the first thing many students do after returning to the classroom is to water the plants. Not only learn professional knowledge, but also learn the connection with all emotions. In addition, there are some special courses, such as cooking, sewing, handicrafts and so on. These courses are very practical and can quickly help students improve their quality of life and love for life. The layout of the classroom environment is very specific. In addition to each student having a unique desk, there is also a cultural wall around the classroom that can highlight the students' individual sense of existence, showing their art works, personalized signatures and so on. Students can walk by themselves if they need anything in class, such as drinking water, going to the toilet, or wiping their noses with toilet paper. There is no need to ask the teacher for leave, and the atmosphere in the classroom is full of trust. Even if the students did something wrong, the teacher just explained patiently and didn't shout.
In addition to the part of the course, I learned some other important information from the communication with local students outside the course, which is a better supplement to Finnish education.
First, men in the whole Nordic countries should be forced into military service and receive militarized education during or after college. From the perspective of national defense, although education is the cheapest national defense, it is not strong enough to defend the stability of the political situation, and the future of the nation is fragile and cannot withstand the wind and rain. Finland has a population of 5.5 million, while the United States has a standing army and reserves of 4.5 million. In Israel with a population of 8 million, young men and women are required to perform military service, so it can be said that all the people are soldiers. The international situation is changing. Are there any eggs under the nest? So I think militarized education is an indispensable part of Finland's educational power.
Second: parents are the best teachers for children! The implementation of a complete and systematic education in a country is not only a matter for schools, but also needs the cooperation of families. In fact, the failure of most children's education first stems from the failure of family education. On the first night of work, we spent nearly five hours discussing with the company's senior management team the intractable diseases of family education around us, and discussed nearly 20 cases of children's growth accidents. The final unanimous conclusion is that the biggest risk of children's education lies in parents' lack of educational ability and learning consciousness, which leads to too many educational tragedies. The success of Finnish education, in addition to the sound public school system, can not be ignored part is the educational ability of parents. Finland advocates the concept of lifelong education, and universities are always free for all citizens. Nearly 40% of citizens have a bachelor's degree or above, and each family has at least one bachelor's degree on average. Compared with the domestic ratio of less than 4%, the gap can be imagined.
Confucius said: learn, and then know little; Teach and get sleepy. It is common to learn this thing. The less you study, the less likely you are to think that you need to study. For family education, if parents don't have the ability to teach or even the awareness of learning, they are more likely to fall into a kind of arrogance that they don't know what they don't know, thinking that they have paid a lot, but they don't know that the method is really blind and can't grasp the essentials. The bustling reading scene I saw in the Song Ge Library in Helsinki really made me admire the lifelong learning of Finns. No matter old people, children or young college students, everyone meets in the citizen library, creating an excellent learning atmosphere!
China's culture has been ahead of the world for thousands of years. When Europe was still in the dark and closed Middle Ages, China had reached the Song and Ming Dynasties when its culture was prosperous. We are not short of good cultural and educational ideas. Whether it is "the knower is not as good as the doer, and the doer is not as good as the musician" advocated by Confucius in the pre-Qin period, or the four sentences of "Stand for heaven and earth, stand for the people, link the past with the future, and make the world peaceful" written by Zhang Zai in the Northern Song Dynasty, the profound precipitation of Chinese culture is our great wealth. It's just that it will take some time for China to get out of an era of poverty and weakness after the vicissitudes of countless wars in the past hundred years, and it will also take some time for the precipitation of basic education. However, it is urgent to practice family education and advocate lifelong learning for all. While paying attention to children's education, we should also pay attention to the re-education of parents.
Basic education, national defense and military education and family education in public schools constitute the three major parts of Finnish education. During my visit to Finland this week, I need to think more about how to apply what I have learned in my own school. Obviously, it is unrealistic to copy directly on the premise of unequal material basis. Of course, there is another question worth thinking about: What bugs will be behind the sound basic education in Finland? Compared with Sweden, another Nordic country visited in these two days, Sweden also pursues the education concept of free education above primary school and people-oriented, but Sweden's industrial base is more prominent. There are world-famous brands such as Ericsson, Volvo, Nobel and IKEA.
Only by looking at the world can we have a world view. Look at the world, at all beings, and at yourself. The Nordic study tour lasted nearly 15 days, passing through three countries and nearly 10 cities. For me, the end of the tour is not the end of learning, but the beginning of dialectical thinking and application of what I have learned in Nordic education.