An investigation about differences between Finnish and German schools

This piece of news is from Finland and media called "Helsingin Sanomat". It was published 11.3.2019.

https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006030729.html

A German teacher from Tampere, Seija Sihvo, made an investigation about differences between Finnish and German schools. She interviewed 15-16 year-old-students and their teachers from Germany and Finland. There were 100 students from Finland and 200 from Germany. Also there were 40 teachers. The Finnish students were from schools in Tampere. The German students were from two different types of schools, Hauptschule and Gymnasium. In Germany students are divided into groups of strong, mediocre and weak students depending their grades starting from the fifth grade. But the German students are usually very happy with their own placing different types of schools. For Finnish students it seems really odd that German students are separated in different types of schools depending their grades. Sihvo's investigation shows one thing really clearly: Finnish school teachers are experienced to be strongly student-oriented and humane by the students. The teachers are interested in what, and how students are learning. Finnish students praised their teachers to be trustworthy. German students think that their teachers know their own subjects really well, but the most important thing to teachers is just the students' grades. So in Finland student-teacher relationships are much closer than in Germany.


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