Content and Influence

By Hannah and Marie

Do the students have influence at your school?

In Denmark, the teachers focus a lot on the students’ well being. In a lot of schools (especially public schools) that means having a student council, where one or two students get elected by their classmates, and take some of the wishes from their classmates, to one of the authorities.

Do the teachers listen to you? 

Yeah, mostly they listen, but it’s not always they agree. Sometimes our class teacher uses a lesson for questions and wishes about how the school is, and how it could be in the future. So, yeah, I would say, that they listen.

Do the teachers accept suggestions and proposals from you?

 Like I said before, they accept it, but it’s not always they’re able to fulfill them. Also when we disagree, they do what they can for it get better.  

Do they respect you and do you respect the teachers?

 I would say that we respect our teachers much more, than public schools do.

  – Like the teachers listens to us, and opposite. 

Can you take part in decision-making concerning the content of the teaching and the working methods ?– how you are taught. 

 Yeah. Mostly we talk about it. Especially when we’re getting bad at the subjects, the teacher often finds others methods of teaching.  They also ask the students.

Do you have a student council? If yes what influence has it got? What can the student council decide?

In our school we don’t have a student council, so the teachers often evaluate the lessons, and ask for our feedback and suggestions.  That also creates a more equal relationship between student and teacher, though it’s not always possible for the teachers to fulfill the students’ wishes. It can be everything from wanting a basketball to play with in the recess, to suggesting a trip to another country.

Content

How old are you?

- 14 and 15.

What grade are you in?

- 8’th grade, and 9’th grade

 Which subject do you have?

- International and com.

What knowledge, which skills and which competences do you learn at your school?

- History: Old times and war…

- English: The languages, the writing and the english culture…

- Germany: The language, and the culture, and the writing…

- Christianity: The faith and example: Islam and Jerusalem… 

- International: The communication whit other countries.

The climate change (in other countries) ex. is also a important thing to learn about. Because you need to know something about the climate to know the culture of a country and how the climate affect it.