Sunday, October 7, 2012
Why are the Scandinavian countries students smarter than US students?
Why are the Scandinavian countries students smarter than US students?
Scandinavian students, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, when compared to other countries, consistently rank at the top in Math and Science and, one can only assume, in the humanities as well. The US ranks down at the bottom. I am a Social Studies teacher and a parent of three. I would love to be an amazing teacher like those in the Scandinavian nations. I want to know how they do it. Scandinavian & Germanic nation's students, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, etc. when compared to other countries, consistently rank at the top in Math and Science and, one can only assume, in the humanities as well. The US ranks down at the bottom. I am a Social Studies teacher and a parent of three. I would love to be an amazing teacher like those in the Scandinavian nations. I want to know how they do it.
Other - Cultures & Groups - 7 Answers
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1 :
Standards.
2 :
It could be in the bloodline. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=464880015&blogId=481242993 It's the RH negative blood, and the genes that go with it.
3 :
Could be the quality of the teachers in the US. Knowing that The Netherlands is part of Western Europe rather than being in Scandinavia could be a good thing for a teacher to know.
4 :
Because they break students up by their intelligence level, so that students are taught alongside peers who have comperable abilities and students are constantly challenged. In america we stick everyone togther and basically teach to the slowest kids so no one get left behind, holding the more intelligent kids back.
5 :
I don't think it is the quality of the teachers but the overall educational level of the citizens in general. Well-educated parents take an interest in seeing to it that their children are well-educated.
6 :
I don't know what studies have been showing this, so I won't comment on math & science specifically, but your assumption that this study must extend to all other subjects at the very least does not hold water in the Netherlands. Last year it was announced here that a massive percentage of the dutch born and raised teaching students were, at the end of their college education, incapable of passing the relatively simple dutch language exam required to actually be allowed to teach. So perhaps, at least here, it's less a question of massively better technique, and more a question of taking resources away from one subject to benefit another.
7 :
For that is YOUR perception..
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