The Danish Education System
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The Danish Education SystemPre-school
Age 6, level 0, optional
Primary and lover secondaryAge 7-16, level 1-9 (10), compulsary
Upper secondaryAge 17-19, level 10-12, optional
General education:Gymnasium HF, HHX and HTX
Vocational education and training
Higher Education
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Project: ”The Virtual High School”
• 2002-2005• 70 out of 160 Gymnasiums participated with
development (innovation) work• From one teacher in one class to the hole
school• A research group followed the project and
have published 3 reports (only in danish)
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What is a Virtual High School??
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Answer: A School with Virtual Instruction (”E-learning”)….
• The teacher and the students not nessecary in the same room (distributed) and/or at the same time (asynchronic).
• Use of computer based communication:E-mail, Electronic Conference Systems….
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Virtual Instruction: The setting
• Instruction can be organized in:– Class or groups or pairs or individual
• A theme can be taught:– Systematic or thematic or project– Single subject or interdisciplinary
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The teachers profession: What’s it’s all about?
• Select the teaching materials
• Plan and decide:– The proces:
How the teaching materials will be used– The organization: e.g. see previous dias
• ”Classroom” work
• Evaluate
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The traditional setting
1 lesson = 25-30 students+1 teacher+1 classroom+1 textbook. (Duration: 45 minutes)
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A new setting
• Different locations and time• Written communication (Conf. system,E-
mail…)• Different groups working with
interdisciplinary, problem-centred projects
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Why teaching this way?Pro
• Independence• Self-discipline• Collaboration skills• Communication skills• Differentiated teaching• Responsibility• Problemsolving• Life long learning• Academic ability• Variety• Reflect society
Contra
•Achivements not improved
•Missing the try out in the classrrom (Measure yourself in the class)
•Increased work load for both students and teachers
Variety!
Mixed Mode
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Increased work load
The most valuable ressource: TIME
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Increased work load –according to the teachers
• More communication, reading and writing:– E-mail: Q&A Q&A…..– Conferences: Drafts, Agenda, Essays, Logs, Portfolios,
Comments….– Implication of the greater distance to the students:
demands for more specific and detailed (writen) instructions
– If the school establish and introduces electronic communication channels there is a natural expectation that you can use them
• Differentiated teaching takes time• Collaboration and coordination with other teachers
takes time Writing takes time!
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Increased work load –An example
1 school-year: 3 projects of 1 week each (1-2 classes)
0100200300400500600700800900
1000
1. proj 2. proj 3. proj Total
Teachers in sharedconfStudents in sharedconfTeachers in groupconfStudents in groupconf
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Increased work load –Solutions
Who? When? How? What? Rules?
Develop a school-based concept/procedures to spare the time to think out, negotiations and communication.Makes coordination, progression and continuity possible
Don’t invent things from scratch everytime
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Increased work load –Solutions
Integrated informationsystem for schools:Administration, communication, information, documentation,
evaluation, grades, attendance registration,……..
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Increased work load –Solutions
Necessary conditions:• In-service teachers training (Staff
development): IT and educational theory• Accessibility to computers, software and
Internet• Support: technical and pedagogical