I want to correct what I wrote yesterday about Finnish class teachers who offer remedial help for their pupils, because this morning I discovered that what I said isn't quite true.
The University's practice placement school in Joensuu has much more resources than "normal" schools do and this includes the possibilty for class teachers to get payed for the remedial help they offer. I spoke to one of the teachers, who said that he gave 3-5 remedial-support lessons every week and that most teachers at the University's practice placement school taught a similar amount of lessons every week in remedial support.
Based on this - and the fact that I knew the Finnish main stream education system included "remedial help" I assumed the number of remedial lessons would be a little less in "normal schools" - maybe around 1-2 lessons a week. Today I discovered that this was a wrong - or misleading - assumption. I'm sorry for that.
At "normal schools" the number of remedial lessons offered depends very much on the individual schools resources and preferences, but in average it might be around 2 lessons a month, not a week. In secondary school, the remedial support is often placed before exams for repetition purposes - and it isn't compulsory to attend, but very often all student do so anyways.
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