Download - Education, Finland
Building a world class education system - Education in Finland
GETS 2010, Calgary, Canada15th July, 2010
Tarmo Toikkanen, http://tarmo.fi [email protected]
Finland, Europe
PISA results for Finland
Literacy Math Science
2000
2003
2006
1st 4th 3rd
1st 2nd 1st
2nd 2nd 1st
The official explanation for PISA success
• equal opportunities to education
• localized educational responsibility
• free education and welfare (school meals, commutes, health care)
• Master level teachers
• high quality teaching
• great degree of autonomy to schools and teachers
• collaboration between schools, homes, and officials
My unofficial explanations
Teaching is a valued profession
Teacher’s curriculum
School curriculum
School district curriculum
National curriculum framework
Textbooks Healthy market and competition
Less classes, less homework
The Finnish language
Ethnically homogenous
Role of technology
Pedagogical / Andragogical principles
Educational results
Didactic practices
Teaching activities
Tools
Studying
Official future focus areas
• smaller group sizes
• special education
• student counseling
• afternoon extra-curricular activities
• school-home collaboration
Unofficial future trends
• open content
• non-formal and informal learning
• progressive inquiry, PBL and other “advanced” pedagogies
• blended learning and social media
• school-society collaboration
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