School Days- My experience with German classrooms

As a teacher, one of the things I was most excited to do on this trip was to visit German classrooms to compare their educational experience to our own.  Teachers rarely get to travel beyond their own bubble to understand how learning happens in other parts of the world, so learning the German educational model would provide another valuable opportunity to improve my own classroom experience as well as my community.

Here are several interesting differences that I noted between German schools and our own: Continue reading