- Kouluvuoden alussa meille jaettiin kasa papereita jotka kulkee nimellä "feuille en-tête" joka meinaa sitä, että niillä papereilla on koulun tietynlainen yläotsake. Näitä papereita käytetään pikkukokeille ja läksyille, jotka arvostellaan.
- Sana "devoir" tarkoittaa kotiläksyä, mutta täällä se aina tarkoittaa palautettavaa ja arvosteltavaa läksyä. Sanaa "prépa" käytetään niille joita Suomessa kutsuttaisiin läksyiksi.
- Jokaisella oppilaalla on oma "journal de classe", eli tuntipäiväkirja, joka on siis palautettava kirjanen, jonne pitää merkata ne aiheet mitä on käsitellyt jokaisella tunnilla. Sitä käytetään myös merkkamaan kaikki tulevat läksyt ja kokeet, jotta oppilas pystyy järjestelemään hänen koulutyönsä. Kirjanen toimii myös kommunikaatiovälineenä opettajien ja vanhempien välillä, esimerkiksi jos pölisee matikan tunnilla niin yleinen uhkaus on: "laitan merkinnän sinun tuntipäiväkirjaan". Tänne myös merkataan jos on unohtanut vaikka kurssiaineiston kotiin tmv.
- Harva oppilas käyttää ahkerasti lyijykynää, vaan muistiinpanoja otetaan enemmän mustekynillä ja korjaukset tehdään sellaisella korjausrollerilla. Kokeen tekeminen lyijykynällä on ennenkuulumatonta, ehkä siksi että kaikki kokeet sun muut säilytetään ja lyijy kuluu pois helpommin, mutta tämä on omaa spekulointiani.
- Meidän koulun ullakolta löytyy "arkistot", joka meinaa siis sitä, että siellä on miljoona vanhaa "journal de classe:ia", miljoona vanhaa koetta, ja ties mitä muuta. Kaikki säilytetään. Kun teemme kokeen, opettaja arvostelee sen ja sitten saamme sen takaisin säilytettäväksi kunnes kouluvuosi tulee lopuilleen, jolloin palautamme ne kaikki ja ne joutuvat arkistoihin. Miksi? Sitä en tosiaankaan tiedä, mutta näin minulle selitettiin.
- Kaikki kirjottavat hyvin perinteisellä kaunolla (jota minun on välillä vaikea lukea...), mutta ainakaan minun sekavasta tekstauksesta ei ole huomautettu. Täytyy myöntää, että kaikilla täällä on tosi kaunis käsiala ainakin verrattuna omaani.
- Ei ole kovin montaa koulukirjaa ja niissäkin aineissa joissa on, kirjaa käytetään hyvin vähän ja enemmänkin vain täydentävänä aineistona. Opettajat jakavat monisteita ja pitää itse ottaa muistiinpanoja. Joillain on joissain aineissa vihkoja, mutta yleisesti muistiinpanotkin otetaan erillisille papereille (jotka kaikki päätyvät kansioon). Esimerkiksi minullakin on ruutupaperilehtiö josta aina tarpeen mukaan irroitan yhden arkin.
- Luokissa ei ole seinäkelloja.
- Vanha kunnon liitutaulu on aktiivisessa käytössä. Vain harvoissa ja valituissa luokissa on projektori ja vielä harvemmissa luokissa on tietokone (luokassa siis voi olla projektori, mutta ei tietokonetta, joten jos opettajat käyttävät projektoria, en heillä usein mukana oma läppärinsä). Smartboardeja olen nähnyt maksimissaan pari, ja näitäkään ei käytetä hyödyksi. Suurimmaksi osaksi tunnit menevät niin, että opettajat puhuvat, merkkailevat muutamia asioita liitutaululle ja siinä se.
- Kännykät sekä muut elektroniset laitteet on ehdottomasti kiellettyjä koko koulupäivän aikana. Eli ei ainoastaan tuntien aikana, vaan myös välitunneilla, ruokatunnilla. Ne pitäisi olla suljettuina ja laukussa ja jos sinut saadaan kiinni vaikka kännykkä kädessä niin se takavarikoidaan viikoksi. Piste. Turha siis kuvitellakaan ottavan taululla olevasta taulukosta tai vastaavasta kuvaa, vaan kaikki pitää kirjoittaa käsin. Mutta eiväthän he ihan kaikkea pysty kontrolloimaan. En kuitenkaan kameraani ole mukana raahannut osittain tämän takia, ja osittain sen takia, että koululaukku painaa muutenkin ihan tarpeeksi. Kuvat ovat siis kouluni nettisivuilta ja ehkä vähän vanhentuneita.
I could talk about my school forever, because I keep learning more and more about it. I should, because I've been spending so much time there. The exam week is going on, so I don't have a lot of time to write, but these are actually things that I'd already noted down. My first list about the differences in school systems was just the beginning. Here's a little more about the everyday-kind-of-things and materials, because in fact, they too differ a lot from what I'm used to in Finland. I also happened to put some pictures on my previous post about things that I hadn't explained (to be honest, those pictures were supposed to go along with this post to begin with).
- At the beginning of the school year, we were given a bunch of paper knows as "feuille en-tête", which means that the papers have a certain header of the school. These papers are used for little tests and homework that is graded.
- The word "devoir" means homework, but here it always means something that is returned to the teacher to be graded. The word "prépa" is used for those that we would call homework in Finland.
- Every student has their own "journal de classe", so a lesson diary, which is a booklet that is returned and where you have to write all the subjects you went through in each class. It is also used for writing all the up coming tests and homeworks, so the students are able to organize their school work. The booklet also works as a mean of communication between teachers and students, like for example if you babble a lot during math class, the usual threat is: "I'll write it in your lesson diary". If you've forgotten your course material home or something like that, it's also marked into this booklet.
- Very few students use a pencil frequently for writing, but instead notes are taken with pens (and many different colours) and corrections are made with a correction-roller-thingy. Doing a test in pencil is unheard of, maybe because all the exams are stored and lead wears out more easily, but this is just my own speculation.
- In the attic of our school, you can find "the archives", which means that there's a million old "journal de classes", a million old tests and who knows what else. Everything is stored. When we do a test, the teacher grades it and then gives it back for us to store until the school year comes to an end and we return everything and they go into the archives. Why? I do not know, but this is what was explained to me.
- Everyone writes in a very traditional cursive (which I sometimes find difficult to read...), but at least no one has commented on my messy text. I have to admit that everyone here has really pretty handwriting at least compared to my own.
- We don't use very many text books, and in the subjects where we do have them, we use them very little and they work as more of a complementary material. The teachers give out handouts and you have to take notes yourself. Some people have notebooks for certain subjects, but generally notes are taken on separate pieces of paper (to be put into a folder). For example, I too have a pad of graph paper from where I take out one sheet of paper when needed.
- The classrooms don't have clocks on the walls.
- The good old blackboard is in active use. Only very few classrooms have a projector and even fewer classrooms have a computer (the classrooms can have a projector, but not a computer, so if the teachers use the projector, they often bring their own laptop). I've seen max a few smartboards and they're not used to their full potential at all. Mostly the lessons go so that the teachers talk, writing a few things on the blackboard and that's it.
- Cellphones and all other electronic equipment is strictly forbidden during the entire school day. That means that it isn't only during the classes, but also the recesses and lunch. They should be kept shut off and in your bag and if you're caught with for example a cellphone in your hand, it is confiscated for a week. Full stop. So don't even think about taking a picture of the charts or notes on the board, you just have to write everything by hand. However, they can't control everything. I haven't carried my camera around partially because of that and partially because my school bag weighs enough without it. The pictures here are thus from the web page of my school and may be a little old.
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| Koulun suuri sali jonne keräännytään välkille etc, mutta noi koristeet ei siellä ole, koska ne oli laitettu vain koulun 20v juhlia varten |
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| Koulun sisäänkäynti |
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| Koulun käytävä ja takana näkyvä "työmaa" ei kyllä enää ole olemassa vaan johtaa tuohon yllä olevaan saliin |
- At the beginning of the school year, we were given a bunch of paper knows as "feuille en-tête", which means that the papers have a certain header of the school. These papers are used for little tests and homework that is graded.
- The word "devoir" means homework, but here it always means something that is returned to the teacher to be graded. The word "prépa" is used for those that we would call homework in Finland.
- Every student has their own "journal de classe", so a lesson diary, which is a booklet that is returned and where you have to write all the subjects you went through in each class. It is also used for writing all the up coming tests and homeworks, so the students are able to organize their school work. The booklet also works as a mean of communication between teachers and students, like for example if you babble a lot during math class, the usual threat is: "I'll write it in your lesson diary". If you've forgotten your course material home or something like that, it's also marked into this booklet.
- Very few students use a pencil frequently for writing, but instead notes are taken with pens (and many different colours) and corrections are made with a correction-roller-thingy. Doing a test in pencil is unheard of, maybe because all the exams are stored and lead wears out more easily, but this is just my own speculation.
- In the attic of our school, you can find "the archives", which means that there's a million old "journal de classes", a million old tests and who knows what else. Everything is stored. When we do a test, the teacher grades it and then gives it back for us to store until the school year comes to an end and we return everything and they go into the archives. Why? I do not know, but this is what was explained to me.
- Everyone writes in a very traditional cursive (which I sometimes find difficult to read...), but at least no one has commented on my messy text. I have to admit that everyone here has really pretty handwriting at least compared to my own.
- We don't use very many text books, and in the subjects where we do have them, we use them very little and they work as more of a complementary material. The teachers give out handouts and you have to take notes yourself. Some people have notebooks for certain subjects, but generally notes are taken on separate pieces of paper (to be put into a folder). For example, I too have a pad of graph paper from where I take out one sheet of paper when needed.
- The classrooms don't have clocks on the walls.
- The good old blackboard is in active use. Only very few classrooms have a projector and even fewer classrooms have a computer (the classrooms can have a projector, but not a computer, so if the teachers use the projector, they often bring their own laptop). I've seen max a few smartboards and they're not used to their full potential at all. Mostly the lessons go so that the teachers talk, writing a few things on the blackboard and that's it.
- Cellphones and all other electronic equipment is strictly forbidden during the entire school day. That means that it isn't only during the classes, but also the recesses and lunch. They should be kept shut off and in your bag and if you're caught with for example a cellphone in your hand, it is confiscated for a week. Full stop. So don't even think about taking a picture of the charts or notes on the board, you just have to write everything by hand. However, they can't control everything. I haven't carried my camera around partially because of that and partially because my school bag weighs enough without it. The pictures here are thus from the web page of my school and may be a little old.
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