Experiments with enhanced cooperation between teachers and educators in teaching in primary school enhances students' well-being and learning. It shows a new study.

Educators and school clubs are an integral part of the school. Nursery managers must be qualified people and teachers and pre-school teachers can collaborate on teaching from preschool up to the second class of the so-called coordinated primary schools.

In many school start trials have also educators from schools SFO able to work with teachers about teaching. These experiments have now been evaluated by Ramboll. The evaluation shows that teacher-teacher cooperation on education makes a positive difference in some important areas. Educators teaching enhanced opportunities to ensure:

-a coherent børneliv where SFO teachers in cooperation with teachers and nursery leaders organize the school day for the youngest school children so that learning, physical exercise and practical and social activities organized with an overall perspective throughout the day

-børnenes wellbeing in education by reducing tuition disruptive noise and commotion

-to teaching professional goals for the youngest schoolchildren better organized as a combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills and activities

augmented quality of home-school cooperation

-Improved options for inclusion of children with learning difficulties.

"The new evaluation of-school experiments confirm that a proper cooperation among teachers and educators about public school education makes a positive difference. I will work to ensure that municipalities and schools can expand cooperation between teachers and educators based on the good experience from the many-school trial, "says Children and Education Christine Antorini and continues:

"It is important for cooperation between teachers and educators in school because it gives a better school day for students. Students receive both teachers' teaching skills and educators focus on wellbeing, communities and the practical and creative learning environments. "

Children and Education Christine Antorini will now work to get political support in primary conciliation for the necessary legislative changes.

Not a substitute for teachers

According to Ramboll evaluation there is nothing to suggest that educators with the extended possibilities used in place of teachers in the classroom. On the contrary, the evaluation shows that teachers contribute to that teachers have greater opportunity to focus on the academic content. The educators solves teaching assignments where their special profession competences can contribute to students' learning and wellbeing.

To achieve a successful cooperation, the evaluation of management support, clear procedures and guidelines for cooperation, time for joint meetings and informal sparring and acceptance of each other's skills.

The teachers in the experiments, in cooperation with the educators responsible for teaching professional goals for subjects and grade levels are met. Educators responsibility and role varies depending on the subjects and tasks they participate in. Especially in the practice-oriented and creative education teachers have had more responsibility and better taken care of (parts of) teaching including in relation to team formation.

The educators take care of a number of welfare tasks among the students, the regular contact with their parents and participate in the development of annual and pupil plans. Additionally they provide homework help in the SFO.

 
Background

Since June 1998, the children and the Minister of Education on the basis of the Primary Education Act § 55, stk. 1 and 2, approved the initiation of a series of experiments with starting school, which has claimed an exemption from the Education Act. At the time of the evaluation (spring 2012) had 226 schools in 16 municipalities trials with school. For these studies apply to all exemptions from the Primary Education Act § 28 para. 1 wherein educator trained staff of clubs have been conferred teaching competenceto carry out teaching duties in cooperation with teachers from 1 up to and including the third grade.

Today there is an opportunity for coordinated school starting in elementary school. In the concerted early school years may well qualified teachers as an educator trained teaching students from preschool through 2nd grade, as long as the training is both of preschool managers (with social education) and teachers.

In-school tests are given an exemption that expands the circle of educators in teaching. This has qualified people SFO employees to some extent been able to carry out independent teaching duties from 1st to 3rd grade in team collaboration with teachers. It has in the experiments has been the head teacher's responsibility to ensure that teaching duties, as the qualified people responsible for these trials is consistent with their educational qualifications.

data basis
Ramboll's evaluation is based on a review of existing knowledge about the trials of starting school (literature), which is substantially based on previously conducted evaluations of experiments with starting school, as well as on qualitative case studies in selected schools on evaluation date has ongoing trials. Literature study includes material that is empirically based and where the data collection and analysis is conducted using scientific methods. Literature study includes 18 studies in varying degrees illustrate the various themes. The case studies have contributed knowledge about all the evaluation themes. Additionally, it has been possible to place special emphasis on themes not or only to a limited extent highlighted through the literature study.

The evaluation's conclusions are based solely on qualitative data. It's due to the trials history not been possible to establish a quantifiable evidence-based evaluation design.

Source: UVM