Today was our first meeting with our teaching practice school, the Langelinieskolen in Osterbro. It seems like a nice school, with very motivated teachers, who are very happy to have us as guests!
The bad news however, is that it takes me quite some time to get there. Osterport station is at the final end of my 7 zone journey. Since school starts at 8AM, I will often have to wake up at 5.30 to make it there in time. Painful!
The teachers who will be guiding us were very helpful though, they gave us a very nice booklet with pictures of all the classes, we got a guided tour of the school, and we got some more info about the school too.
The school looks very diverse. A few of the third graders we met spoke fluent English, for example. They seemed especially motivated when they realised some "strangers" would be sitting in/participating in their classroom experience.
We were also told the school has quite a big truancy problem, with pupils sometimes arriving 2 hours late, and going home during the lunch break. Measures are being taken to change that though.
Since we will be observing some very young pupils, I was very keen to learn more about two things the teacher mentioned:
- A way to motivate the pupils to get ready for class after entering the classroom, namely a race to see which group could put away their bag and hang their coats first, with each group having a head boy/girl with a green card to indicate they're done!
- An inductive way of teaching mathematics, which we will experience hands-on when we are helping the teacher with his math lessons on Friday!
I'm looking forward to it!
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