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shared by Sheri Edwards on 30 Aug 14 - No Cached

Most teachers and edcampers aren’t policy wonks, they are interested in changing classrooms. This can be seen as policy talk, but what we really do at edcamp is talk pedagogy, even if we don’t call it pedagogy. Pedagogy is the basis of quality classroom instruction, it is also the bedrock under which we should write school policy.
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Come to think of it, I wasn’t sure if the American approach had ever worked very well.
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didn’t see the point of these frequent pit stops. As a teacher in the United States, I’d spent several consecutive hours with my students in the classroom. And I was trying to replicate this model in Finland. The Finnish way seemed soft and I was convinced that kids learned better with longer stretches of instructional time. So I decided to hold my students back from their regularly scheduled break and teach two 45-minute lessons in a row, followed by a double break of 30 minutes. Now I knew why the red dots had appeared on Sami’s forehead.
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At that moment, I decided to embrace the Finnish model of taking breaks.
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But then I remembered that Finns have known this for years; they’ve been providing breaks to their students since the 1960s. 
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