Compare and Contrasting to the U.S.

Differences:

• The teacher switches classes and the students stay in the same class. 

• The boys and girls are split up into different classes. (Only this school does this, other schools in Spain do not)

• This school teaches 3 different languages

• The teachers get more planning time 

• In this school the students wear uniforms

• The students walk to school. (In some schools in America this is normal but in the school, I grew up in you could only get to to school by bus or car. 

• The classroom management is different. There is no reward system or no discipline system. 

• The students can sing and dance around the hallway. 

• Only silence when doing independent work. It is a very loud culture.

• Lunch is an hour long and students can leave to go get lunch. 

• The students have swimming as a special. 

• The students do not have the same classes at the same time every day.

• Safety is very relaxed. Classroom doors are not always locked and there is access to outside very easily.  

• Teachers go by their first names here. (It is not like in all schools in Spain)

• The students in Spain only write in cursive. 

• In Spain, they do not drink as much water. The teachers or students do not carry water bottles around with them. 

• The culture and classrooms are louder. 

Similarities:

• The content being taught is the same.  

• Teachers are underpaid. 

• The class sizes are the same 

• Most of the specials are the same