The subject teacher’s review shows that course content, grading and teaching methods are areas that students expect to have influence over, reports We teachers.
2,718 teachers have answered a questionnaire in which 63 percent of them believe that student influence has increased. 37 percent believe that it has become too large and as much as 70 percent believe that clarifications are required in the steering documents that state that it is the teacher who has power over the teaching.
Teacher: Requires that we immediately respond to emails
The review shows that students have influence over, among other things, spontaneous breaks, repetitive chances of re -examination or report orally or in writing.
The teachers emphasize that they are keen to capture the students’ interests and views when possible and relevant. But according to the interviews and survey responses conducted by the subject teacher, teachers believe that the students expect tailor -made teaching and that teachers should be available even after school hours.
– They demand that we immediately respond to emails and arrange new test cases when it suits them if they are not satisfied with a grade. But when we put it on it is not even certain that they show up. There is no respect for and trust in us teachers, says Lena Norée, who has been a high school teacher since 1991, to We teachers.
Wiman: Clearly we’re going to listen to the kids
Elementary school teacher Maria Wiman believes that the debate will be a little too black or white.
– Suddenly everything should be digital and then everything should be analog. I think we end up in such a situation again. There will be a lot of nightmare headings that the students take over and that teachers have nothing to say about. It is not my opinion, I think that student participation is great to a certain extent.
She believes that it is a matter of course that the teachers should listen to the children.
– Student participation is to a certain limit super fine, that we can have a dialogue about things, that students may think and wish for lessons, think about rules in the school yard, wish food in the dining room or if they have a special interest that they want to put some lesson on.
Horror examples: Surveys are the basis of the teachers’ salary
However, Wiman emphasizes that the school must not become the “Lord of the Flies”, where the children take over and the teachers have nothing to say about.
– You have to find some kind of middle position. Obviously we should listen to our children, we live in a democratic society where the Children’s Commission is law. It is very important that the Children’s Commission is followed in school, says Wiman and continues:
– But with that being said, it is clear that the teacher is the one with authority to conduct the teaching and it is the teacher who is in control of the steering documents.
Why are there so many teachers who answered like this then?
– We have seen alarming things that have happened. For example, there have been surveys where the students may think about individual teachers, then the surveys have been the basis for the teacher’s salaries. It is a completely absurd situation and as an employer you cannot do so. There it has gone a lot too far in what the students may think about.
Criticizes the School Inspectorate
To we teachers, the school leader and debater Linnea Lindquist tells her that she is critical of the legislation, the steering documents and the School Inspectorate. At the end of February, Lindquist, who is one of the experts in the curriculum investigation, suggested that the student influence be toned down.
– It is holes in their heads that students should be involved in planning the teaching, both what it should contain and how to learn. We have legislation that undermines the teachers, she tells the newspaper.