Students, teachers, and parents are already complaining about stress and pressure in elementary school. The author demonstrates that elementary school teachers can create a pleasant school environment for everyone involved, despite rigid frameworks and numerous demands, without the stress of time constraints. She focuses on changing action patterns that help individual teachers achieve autonomy in their teaching practices. Thus, she provides tools for an alternative implementation of the curriculum, and by rethinking approaches such as methodological freedom, interdisciplinary teaching, or project work, deceleration can be practically realized. This way, a classroom can easily become an oasis of deceleration. Content includes: 1. Limits and possibilities 2. Deceleration in concrete terms 3. The key position of the teacher.