How to handle weaker students

How to handle weaker students

Working in low-resource contexts, teachers research and share how to include weaker students, give them a sense of achievement and increase their confidence levels. 

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This is why Finland has the best schools

 

Children in Finland. Photo: Heikki Saukkomaa

      The Harvard education professor Howard Gardner once advised Americans, "Learn from Finland, which has the most effective schools and which does just about the opposite of what we are doing in the United States."
     Following his recommendation, I enrolled my seven-year-old son in a primary school in Joensuu. Finland, which is about as far east as you can go in the European Union before you hit the guard towers of the Russian border.
OK, I wasn't just blindly following Gardner - I had a position as a lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland for a semester. But the point is that, for five months, my wife, my son and I experienced a stunningly stress-free, and stunningly good, school system. Finland has a history of producing the highest global test scores in the Western world, as well as a trophy case full of other recent No. 1 global rankings, including most literate nation.
   In Finland, children don't receive