special needs lessons and Favrdalskolen

Special needs..I haven’t had any lesson about special needs in Turkey yet.If Iwere in Turkey now, I would get the lesson about special needs this season.So I hadn’t very much information about special needs before.But I think I learnt a lot of things during the special needs lessons.

Also we had to prepare a presentation about "special education in Turkey" and we searched about "dyscalculia" which was relevant our branch.It was very usefull for me because while ı was searching about this topic, I had a general idea about special needs in Turkey.When the other presentations were told, we had a new chance to learn the other country' special needs.

During the lessons we mentioned about some important people for education such as Vygotsky and of course "Social Development Theory"...Vygotsky's theory was really important for education.I am also interested in ideas of Vygotsky.The relations between language, conception, social interaction were amazing.

11th March we went to visit the Favrdalskolen for school experience.At the Beginning our special teacher met to us and the headmaster who was gave some information about the introduction of school.The headmaster was in his casual clothes like the other teachers in Denmark.In Turkey not only the headmasters but also the teachers are their suit, when they were in the school.

The school was really big and composed of five buildings with green garden.Students classified according to their age group.It is important for their social life and meeting to similiar teachers.We had a tour around the school.We had a chance we watched their performance.Every class had a lot of material, laptops ,pictures that are everywhere.It was interested that most of classes hadn't door :) I must to say that they had very nice library.

Some classes had two teachers.While main teacher was telling the lesson other teacher try to help pupil who needs special education.So that the teacher would be supported and the pupil who needs special education was tried to adapt.(for physical disabilities )

After that we were divided some group to visit special classes.We joined to their English lessons.The class was composed of 6-7 pupils.

In my opinion the student who are studying in Denmark really lucky.I hope that they are using this oppurnity in the best way...

INTERNATIONAL WEEK

From the beginning to the end of the international week was wonderful!! It was one of my experiences which was the best I have ever seen.On monday we met international students and teachers that came from a lot of different countries (Total :Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Germany,Austria,Czech Republic, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Turkey and Denmark).We talked about stereotypes and drew a picture of our own culture and a different culture.In my opinion this action was very useful to think about other cultures and see that our differences, similarities..


International students didn't know where toilet is, where canteen is etc.We tried to help them of course and it was great emotion I felt like I was home.This feeling was great for meWe got some information about Danish Educational system from Jette and learned some Danish dance :)) It was so enjoyable with music.


All the week was full with activities.We prepared some pictures and text about our university , country as a group.Everybody created a stand about themselves and travelled every stand so the activite was so important to be social.


International buffet was excellent really.People from every country cooked some meal (especially their traditional foods) and we chose to cook SARMA, DOLMA and CACIK(the Turkish names).Also there was some ÇEKİRDEK.All of them were very delicious so we had fun.Some of our friends knew to eat çekirdek but I realized that most of people didn't know to eat it so we tried to learn how to eat çekirdek.In Turkey we like to eat çekirdek and also if you start to eat it, you may have a difficulty about how to give up it :D

On thursday was great because in that afternoon we travelled Ribe which was the oldest town of Denmark.Also In that evening was time eurovision!!!We listened songs from every country danced together.We had very hyggelige time =) Belgium was the winner congratulations! We were second place:) We sang the song which was from İstanbul the song was really very old.While we were singing the song we tried to our figures about that song.That night was very enjoyable.After the Eurovision contest we danced together had fun.

One of the important things was meeting Danish students who were studying on math.We talked about what was the meaningful of mathematics...how could we tell international week by using mathematics? Where was the place of math on this week?As well as we created a picture by using symbols of mathematical from our imaginary.In my opinion the activity was very nice and useful.Because Danish pupils mentioned their education in the university.All of us were studying on mathematics teacher.But I discovered a lot of differences about our educations.I will share my opinions the next posts :)

The end of the week we had to say "good bye" to the international students and teachers..Generally it was the worst thing if you like the time that we spent together.

Calling Copenhagen :))

I had made slideshow about Copenhagen before.But While I was preparing new slideshow about Ribe, I deleted photos of copenhagen from flickr by mistake so both of them are about Ribe. I was surprised and sad.I can't cancel the slideshow that was wrong.But I made a new video for you.I hope that you have funny time...

Art Lessons :)

First week of Erasmus programme we had art lessons.When I was a child ,my teachers always liked my paintings.I was interested in painting and drawing a little but I needed a lot of time for my drawings.And I hadn't drawed my portrait untill that was art lessons :) So I had different experience during art lesson.I thought it was too short time to draw my portrait.I supposed that I couldn't.But at least it looked like me a little :) We tried different style by looking mirror , without looking the paper, by drawing just one line...Thus it was so enjoyable for me.So if didn't choose art it wasn't right :)

We are just three pupils that chose the art lesson from erasmus class.Before I came the lessons, I supposed that we would just draw.But it wasn't true this stuation made me more interested. And our teacher is so friendly like the others.We made sculptures of different positions of our teacher.The sculpture's material was different and hard it was first time I had seen.Trying with material, trying to form were amazing but really difficult.

RIBE_Slideshow from flickr

some music and physical education =)

HEY!! =) I want to mention some our music and physical education lessons..:)

We had these lessons last week and we had fun so much.First of all I believe that both of them helped about making us more creative.

On the music lesson we listened a little music.We started to think that if we listened that music, how we would feel. (for instance;Once music was getting lower, generally it made us sad, emotional etc.) Firstly we listened the music and than everyone what we would imagine as a group.



Also during the music lessons we used our
body so we created new story that
would go along with the music and than
we acted..Watching performances and
acting these stories were so enyoyable for me I hope for everyone.
Also we learnt a song that called 'singing all together' with playing piano.

Beside all of them I like so much the music room that had all types of insrument and good ambiance so I suppose that if I stayed the music class all day, I wouldn't be getting bored=)

At the beginning of the physical education lesson we were so energetic and had fun during the lesson.We played the ball ofcourse with different rules.Viki was good at this subject.Nobody cathched her :)
On the other hand we tried to creative new actions with using a lot of equipment and than we tried most of action except too difficult actions :) At that night we had Carnaval so we were dancing and moving our body all the day so the following day I had a pain all of my body :)) but everything was okey! Because I was glad!

Copenhagen_slideshow from flickr