When talking about food in schools it seams for us something less important, since we care most in academic learning, but lunch time in schools is an educational period same as math or science. Yesterday I watched a video on Facebook about school's lunch time in Japan, and I was surprised that their lunch was not just about eating! It improves the student's cooperative skills, where at the end of the last session before lunch, students by themselves arrange their tables for lunch, clean them, and put the luncheon mat that they bring it with them. A group of students in each class were responsible in food serving for their friends, they distribute food for others in an organized manner. One students come before eating and after each students have his own lunch, tell his friends about today's food ingredients and the healthy benefits of each type, then all students together start eating with the teacher in group. At the end students also clean their tables and collect plastics, cartoons used for recycling. As you see this simple lunch can enforce many skills in students, starting from cooperative skills and group work, autonomy where they do things by themselves without any help, presenting skills, also students were aware about the importance of food since no one had food leftovers, applied recycling, they also learned to help others, learned equality where all students with no exceptions cleaned stairs, ground and tables and many other skills that I'm sure it reflects and improves their academic education.
I'm happy that I read this! Last semester I was observing some classes in a school that doesn't have a place where students may buy something to eat at recess which I was surprised! Having a lunch session is something nice, where it makes the student to acclimate responsibility and to learn good manners.
ReplyDeleteHere comes the importance of teaching students the needed social skills in addition to the academic ones! I hope teaching such skills will be given enough focus in our schools because students need to be taught how to deal with others and socialize effectively. I liked the idea of teaching them these skills within an interesting an enjoyable activity like eating. This will indirectly let students acquire them while having fun and releasing their energy.
ReplyDeletethis is a nice topic to rise it up to discussion since students eat what they have while they are playing during recess time, hope every school has a cafeteria where students can sit together and enjoy their time
ReplyDeleteI liked the idea about Schools lunch time. Every school must have a place or cafeteria where students can eat to avoid problems.
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