Friday, February 15, 2008

TV series : Class 9 A

This week I watched a very interesting programm on Swedish TV.
It is actually the first one in a series of 13 programms following Class 9 A in a school in Malmoe, Sweden.
That particular school is considered one of the worst schools in Sweden, but the new principals are working to change the situation, and these programms will show one of the ways. For the autumn term they exchanged all the regular teachers for Class 9 A at the school with a team of Sweden's top teachers.
Could these teachers motivate the students and teach them enough so that by the end of the term the class would be one of the best classes in all of Sweden?
In the first programm, it was interesting to watch the teachers considered so good they would be able to take on the challenge.
I know these teachers will become my teachers too.

Tony Kinberg in music
Stavros Louca in physics and mathematics
Harriette Persson in languages
Carolina Ohlsson in handcrafts
Magnus Helldén in biology and chemistry
Gunilla Hammar Säfström in Swedish, art and life philosophy (is that correctly translated for bildkunskap och livskunskap?)
Christin Lund in Knowledge about the Society (right for SO?)
Igor Ardoris in sports

We also get to know the students, their fears, their dreams.
This is going to be a learning experience.

I can even watch the programm through the internet for 30 days after it has been broadcast, and read more about the students and teachers and the challenges of the school system on the website
http://www.svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=72201&a=882152.

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