3 weeks at HJORTEBROSKOLEN...

Our Erasmus stay is coming to its end. I feel sad when I realize that in 5 days I have to leave our great flat, this magnificent town, Denmark.....but that`s life and we cannot do much about it:)



The most significant event of past weeks were our visits at HJORTEBRONSKOLEN, where we were observing and also teaching....last week. So my last blog`s reports is going to be about this experience.



The school building itself is quite modern and spacious. It is situated in the southern part of Haderslev, at the edge of the town...



In the building the swimming pool is available and nice playground which seems to be an essential part of every danish elementary school- a perfect place for pupils to spend their breaks there.


Following things worth being mentioned:

- all teachers usually spend their breaks together in the large stuffroom with tea and coffee available X in the CZ teachers usually have their own cabinets( usually for 2-3 persons).

- the atmosphere at the danish elementary school is more peaceful in comparison to the Czech one, teachers are not shouting at the pupils all the time as it is typical for the CZ schools.

- Danish pupils are better disciplined.

- " Learning for the life" - danish pupils usually know that they are taught things they can use in their real lives X in the CZ unfortunately pupils have to learn many facts by heart that are often useless, but it is getting better nowadays....

- the danish school system is very decentralized, we could say that every teacher prepares his/her code of conduct for each individiual class.

- it was really surprising when we realized they didnt have enough money for buying textbooks for the pupils. And those ones they had are really old, eg. 20 years so I think they cannnot be actuel in many aspects.

- we taught 6 lessons at all and in my opinion 5 of them were really successful:) We were two teachers in the lesson-me and misa- and it helped us a lot...:) We taught 6th,7th and 8th grade!

- at the end we received a certifacete that we spent 3 week at hjertebroskolen, observing and teaching...( I hope it will impress our future employer- a headmaster...:)

At last but not least I would like to thank Hanne Theilgaard- the coordinator who helped us a lot and was always ready to answer our questions:)