the Whole class 2B jumping up out of the chairs when the signal caller. The focus is moved from the computer screens, where they can point out the oceans and continents, to a blue animated geezer on a projection screen on the wall.
”Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena, hey Macarena!”
the Children are dancing a kind of head, shoulders, knees and toe-dance to the well-known sommarplågan. Several times a day has andraklassarna at Grönkullaskolan several minutes long rörelsepauser. The element is rooted in the modern pedagogikforskning, which says that the short pulse-pounding exercises will strengthen the learning ability. It is also a welcome interruption, if the mood was starting to get worried, ” explains class teacher Jessica Petersson.
” If I feel the restlessness in the air, we always take a rörelsepaus. We have also worked a lot with routines. It helps the students if they know how the day will look like. Earlier there were no common rules, all the teachers had different ways, ” she says.
Each day in class 2C rörelsepauser. According to the research raises the short heart-pounding exercises the learning ability. Photo: Lina Alriksson
a socially vulnerable area in the west of Alvesta. During several years, had primary school great difficulty. 2016 received a fine of 600.000 kronor after the Swedish schools Inspectorate found deficiencies in all areas that were investigated: the pupils had no rest in the lessons, brawl occurred frequently, and the threats and bullying occurred. During the two years we had the school president six times.
today, it looks different. Grönkullaskolan was perfectly in the last inspection in January of this year.
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” We were in every classroom and not in a single one of them was any hint to that it was not possible to concentrate. In the morning met by very excited children and it was noticed that they wanted to be there, ” says Skolinspektionens inspector Peter Sääw.
” Before, the school had large and urgent problem.
has led to the change? Assistant principal Rebecca Söderkvist proudly displaying around us in the premises, which is located in a low stand-alone 70-century building in the small town. On the walls hang posters of nobel prize-winner Malala Yousafzai.
– An important thing that we have done is we have planned on so a sjätteklass parts of the corridor with a second class, another sixth with a third, and so on. We noticed that it gets quieter when everyone in the same cohort do not have the break at the same time, ” says the assistant principal.
at the same time, as the duo began to got the establishment support of the ”Synergy for best school”, a kind of task force of the national agency for Education that helps very troubled schools.
the Operation consisted of three parts. One part was directed to raising the competence of teachers. The other was about the school’s förstalärare, and the third is a systematic quality control, to identify and analyze the organization and what did not work, ” says rector Eva-Lotta Karlsson when we come into her office.
Students Ketsia Tshimanga and Luna Ahssino notice a big difference in the school after the efforts made. Photo: Lina Alriksson
a large proportion of the students had inadequate svenskakunskaper. Seven out of ten students at the school did not read on a åldersadekvat level and illiterate were also in the older classes. Around 80 per cent of children have a migrant background, and many of them don’t speak English at home.
the School started working from the hypothesis that the orosproblemen hung together with of working relationships. If students have difficult to keep up with, it will be easy that they sit and interfere with instead, as Eva-Lotta Karlsson puts it.
” I remember especially the strong a radio show where a ”young angry man” was interviewed, thus, an unemployed young guy who got on the wrong path in life. In the interview he said ”the school did not understand that I did not understand”. It is something I have carried with me, ” she says.
– When läskunskaperna increase becomes the classroom quieter. Students can understand the context in which they not did in the past.
the school has special education teachers. Now reading the students for 30 minutes each morning. The school also started a study group which they call ”läspatrullen”.
“They check the students’ knowledge. If they notice that a student is not reading at the right level so it may take speciallektioner. But we also have läsinlärningsgrupper and extra reading lessons, ” says Eva-Lotta Karlsson.
” We are working transspråkande. It means that we start from the learner’s mother tongue when he or she learns English. Students also receive different stödmallar to interpret, for example, analytic or literary texts.
today, läspatrullen been in existence for two years. The proportion of sjätteklassare with a pass in Swedish as a second language has increased from 41 per cent in 2015, to 74 per cent in the last year.
Gunilla Bucht is the chairman of the läspatrullen. Today seven year old Emilio Alic in her office, and may läshjälp. “Emilio has easily. He came here because he wanted to,” says Gunilla Bucht. Photo: Lina Alriksson
We meet patrullens chairman, special pedagogue Gunilla Bucht, in her rooms along with the pupil Emilio Alic. Sjuåringen tells us that he most of all likes to draw.
Emilio has a good vocabulary so it goes fast for him to learn. But some of the andraklassarna knew, for example, is not what the word ”bear” means. Emilio is extra with me right now because he wanted to. Otherwise, they tend to be three at a time, ” says Gunilla Bucht.
the school has been working with to structure the teaching, that the teacher Jessica Peterson mentioned. The classes have been clearer diagrams with recurring elements. The idea is that students get more quiet and easier to concentrate if they always know what is expected. The classes are often up and sometimes working two teachers with each class.
For the concerns that arise apply to that school for a lågaffektivt clean, which means that the teacher avoids to react emotionally and escalate the situation. Even if management is reluctant to talk about disciplinary action, so can unwanted behavior has consequences. Pupils who throws the snowball, for example, may stay inside the next break.
” We follow up all incidents, and has hired two behavioural scientist and a curator who works in a likabehandlingsteam. They meet all the children in the schoolyard in the morning.
Teacher Jessica Petersson helps Luca-Cristian Popescu with the data. Today, it is geography and Luca dots in the continents on your computer. Photo: Lina Alriksson
Have Grönkullaskolan found the universal cure for the mess and studieoro? Many schools have problems that are similar to those in Alvesta. In the last year gave the schools Inspectorate, 125 schools of criticism, many of them in vulnerable areas. Three out of ten students experience not study environment in class, according to the Skolinspektionens survey. The school has also become more unequal: students in vulnerable areas are falling behind, and the family history have begun to play a larger role for the grades.
working currently with 262 schools. Martin Rogberg, which is responsible for research funding to the Agency’s projects, mean that there is a recipe that works for all establishments. However, the group elaborated the method is applied in most cases.
– the basic idea is to work with each school if the situation is unique. Collaboration for the best school helps those who have been the object of repeated criticism from the Swedish schools Inspectorate, in which the problem is considered as complex and particularly difficult, ” he says.
A key is to take one step at a time, and not do everything at the same time, ” explains Martin Rogberg, who is employed at the institution for pedagogy and didactics at Stockholm university.
– There are many people who want to help the school at the same time. The state offers several different education initiative, the municipality wants to bet on the digitisation and the school board on the increased presence. But you can’t do everything at the same time.
– in the case of vulnerable schools, it is about in a structured way, try different efforts. It is also important to analyze what they have previously tried and why it did not work.
Photo: Lina Alriksson
Hey Macarena barely had experience Grönkullaskolan when it was stökigast. Class 6C have been with all along the way. On the afternoon mattelektion heard quiet music in the background. Some work has concentrated on the computers, others write in the old-fashioned exercise books. It feels like the most disturbing element is the visiting journalist.
” It was chaos before. The teachers could raise my voice and bark at us. Many threw the eraser, ” says the student Danijel Alimanovic, who dreams of becoming a police officer.
– Before bustled many students because no one knew what it would do on the lesson, ” says his classmate, Luna Ahssino.
Luna Ahssino, despite the fact that she came from Syria in 2015, speaks perfect English, says that she wants to become a doctor – which requires good academic performance. After the actions have their score increased. Three years ago, had less than half of the sexorna reached the requirements, in the last year the figure was 62 per cent.
the state rescue end and Grönkullaskolan is then its on its own legs. During the period, they have also been a pengatillskott from the Swedish national agency for Education a total of 1.3 million, annually roughly around 1-2% of the budget. Eva-Lotta Karlsson is convinced that they will not fall back in stöket.
– To in the summer, we will be above the national average as regards the grades! Our forecast is that over 80% of sexorna should have approved of all the substances in our.
Rector Eva-Lotta Karlsson, director Rebecca Söderkvist and teacher Jessica Petersson at Grönkullaskolan in Alvesta. Photo: Lina Alriksson
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