A cultural and educating day

Tuesday

Today we learned about each others cultures and societies. This we all found very interesting. One of the things we liked about the first part of the day, was that every national gruop had different presentations.

After lunch we worked in our national groups Again. This time we needed to prepare a presentation of our schoolsystem. Again the different Groups had different presentations, but it was the same procedure as before lunch. This made th day feel a bit long, and it was hard to keep focus and stay interested for the last presentations. sad for the groups who where presenting.

To this Peter had an excellent suggetion. He thought that it would have been a better solution, if we instead of presenting as a group in front of everybody twice, one of the times got together in our working/international groups and presented what we had figured out in the national groups.
This would make us more active and we wouldn't be dozing off.

This smart thinking from Peter actually reminds a lot of a method from cooperative learning called Jigsaw. Follow the link to see 10 easy steps for using Jigsawin your classroom:

                                                                                                              http://www.jigsaw.org/steps.htm







Fun Facts of the day:

In Sweden they are so gender equal that they started using hen  instead of he and she.

In Lithuania they have a lady, who lives of eating sand!

Denmark still live high on their European championship from 1992!

In Germany they have 16 different school systems!