Copenhagen trip

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Project Assignment

Interdisciplinary Learning

Team teaching

Ethos

Danish Education System

Democratic ethos

Run by school board

Head coordinates but has no vote

Teams have coordinator not leader

Parents get weekly newsletter with details of activities

Parents have teachers mobile numbers

Since 1998 schools run by self-governing collaborative teams.

• Team coordinator

• Teach year group in all subjects

• One year norm instead of a week norm

• Flexible timetabling

• Team decides timetable

• SMT discuss year plans with teams

Folkeskole Act 1993 required interdisciplinary learning

• forced teachers to cooperate

• rethink educational objectives

• rethink of the timetable

• fit timetable to content

• Most expensive in world

• No uniforms

• max class size 28

• Grade 1 - 9 age 6 - 15/16

• Gymnasium 1 - 3 age 15 - 19+

• Subsidised private education

• 98% of women work

• After school care

Statutory part of exam in Year 9

develop skills previous years

Before the week begins, pupils must:

• Define the overarching theme together with the teacher
• Formulate problems
• Decide groups
• Schedule work
• Order Material
• Make practical arrangements
• Select idiom and begin manufacture of the product

They have 5 continuous school days to:

* Collecting information

* Manipulate topic

* Finalize your product

* Prepare for the presentation

Also need to produce

• group contract
• timetable
• logbook
• bibliography

The presentations take place following week .

Assessed by teachers but moderated

Pupils get mark and comments

Independent learning

Transferable skills are best developed by using knowledge and skills in meaningful ways and in different contexts

Pupils need to achieve cross curricular competences to be able to participate in project based learning.

These competencies include:

• the ability to plan your own work, using a logbook to document a working process,
• collecting and analysing data,
• performing and getting information from interviews,
• using the Internet for information,
• presenting and submitting results,
• selecting and using relevant and varied visual and creative forms of expression in the presentation.

Pupils have to go out at least 10 times a year

No consent forms are needed

Different attitude to health and safety

Most kids cycle to school

"Different Weeks"

built into the year plan.

whole school is involved

2 or 3 a year

mixed age groups

formal vs functional

required content vs question or problem

Sample themes

democracy

climate

newspaper

academic knowledge + independent learning

Sample theme

FREEDOM OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE?

* What rights do children and adolescents have in Denmark?

* How and why do children and young people's rights changed since the first constitution?

* Why do children and young people not have the same rights as adults?

* What would the consequences be if children and adolescents were given the same rights as adults?