The Varying Educational Methods

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The Varying Educational Methods
While the United States, the most influential and powerful country in the world, struggles for educational excellence, perhaps a huge role model to look up to would be Finland’s. America’s school system offers education that is consistently changing, while as Finland offers a steadily unique approach to the educational school system. Finland’s school system and the American school system differ in the ways students are taught, the different fees, and the various extracurricular activities.
The first major difference is that in the Finland school system students that struggle the most are the ones that receive the most help. In America’s school system, students are all taught equally, and every student’s education is valued, whereas Finland’s school system has a much different approach, students education there are not all equally valued. In Finland, they put their focus on students who aren’t currently passing and doing well in their educational career. For example, in the article "What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?" Gamerman mentions Fanny, a straight-A student that still supports her struggling peers. This way, Gamerman shows how Finland focuses on the struggling students instead of the gifted. Teachers in America create lesson plans severely based off various different standardized testing, and other testing material making what students learn based on what’s appearing on those tests. On the contrary, teachers in Finland tend to be more realistic, seeing as they are mostly entrepreneurs; they create their own lessons plans that help engage and encourage students. The different educational ways being taught in both countries really impact students because each individual student learns at thei...

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Although, we learn many interesting and different things from both America’s school system and Finland’s school system, they both have a lot to offer. While, we can learn that one system works better than the other, each approach to learning is a valuable asset. The educational school system benefits not just only the students, but also the teachers and parents as well, because they know they are making a difference in someone’s life. One call to action could easily be to revamp the way teachers are creating the curriculum, making it more reasonable so that students will be able to easily comprehend. With the education in Finland being more of a rigorous approach in helping struggling students, and with the education system in the America being less aggressive focusing more on the gifted, we can see that a more relaxed type is better than a more severe one.

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