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Champion 2.0 and discovered a collection of helpful classroom strategies. But
there was one strategy I found puzzling: “Joy Factor.” Joy in the classroom, suggests Lemov (2015), is a tool that a teacher can leverage to raise achievement: Of course, Joy Factor moments are not ends in themselves. Good Joy Factor in the classroom has to be “the servant”—that is, its purpose is to support the day’s objective. It should also be something you can quickly turn on and off. (p. 442) While Lemov appears to view joy as a strategy, I’m proposing that we start to see prioritizing joy (or happiness), inspired by the Finnish approach to education, as an overarching goal in our classrooms. Happiness can be understood as “a state of heightened positive emotion” and instead of sidetracking the teaching and learning in our classrooms, it can improve productivity and enhance social and emotional intelligence (Seppälä, 2016, p. 8). I understand that prioritizing happiness in our classrooms may seem like an abstract idea. Here’s one way of thinking about it: when we’re seeking to sleep better, we prioritize it by taking different steps before we crawl into bed, such as exercising and powering off our cell phones (Raghunathan, 2016). Similarly, we can put joy first in our classrooms by using a collection of strategies. During my years of working and living in Finland, I have identified a handful of steps that educators can take to promote joyful teaching and learning. Raj Raghunathan, professor at the McCombs School at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy? (2016), recognizes four ingredients of happiness (if basic needs like food and shelter have been addressed): belonging, autonomy, mastery, and mind-set (Pinsker, 2016). One ingredient that I’ve added to this list is well-being, which I view as foundational in order to develop the other components. I’ve organized Teach Like Finland’s thirty-three simple strategies around these five ingredients of happiness, applying them to the context of a joyful classroom. |
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