Forrest Gump. A critically acclaimed movie that deals with a lot of stuff that happened in the 70's. It is a good movie to see some American history and to promote understanding of disabilities.
However playing this movie at school... well it just shows how different the schools are. In order to watch that movie in school in America, the students would have to be in High School and would still need a permission slip. Here... nope. They just watch it. Even though I don't really agree with the viewing of this movie, unedited, in the school room, there are still connections to the Utah Core. Standard 4 is about seeing how global events connect with their lives.
They don't use permission slips. I guess the parents just trust that the teachers know what the are doing. As if the teachers have gone to school and been practicing their profession for years. As if they were professionals.
I also stared planning some lessons for the next two weeks, which is much more difficult than in the states. In America, there are lesson books and in order to get the children ready for the test you have to follow a strict schedule. Not so here. They teach according to a schedule, but if they need to change or something else takes priority, they can change what they are doing easily. But that makes it very difficult to plan for the future.
I do miss being called "teacher". Here everyone just calls me Laura. That is nice in some ways, however there is less respect and not as much order in the classrooms. I do not know if the name is what causes it, but I think teacher or miss Bennett is what I would like to be called.
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