EXAMPLE PROGRAM FOR A FIVE-DAY TRAINING:
Day 1 Introduction: Key features of Finnish education system (no limit for group size)
- Local, regional, national, international cultural features in education, brief history of Finnish education, educational traditions to be shared
- Basic principles / key factors of Finnish early learning and basic education
- The concept of learning environment, learning space, collaboration and learning and sharing together
Important: Possibility for meetings with local decision makers, journalists, etc.
Day 2-4 Workshops: Select the themes of your interest (max. group size 30 people)
- Acquaintance with curricular issues and needs
- Assessment; formative, summative, informative, self-assessment
- Daily management; timetables, subjects, phenomenal learning, class management, social skills, anti-bullying, homework, flipped learning
- Motivated students – how to build up a high-quality learning process?
- Enhancing student participation, increasing the meaningfulness of the studies, promoting each student’s experience of success
- Student welfare, overall well-being foundation for well learning
- Reflective teachers, personal growth, the principles of lifelong learning
- Sharing and learning together, peer-working and sharing
- Researching teachers, sources and material for further studies
Day 5 Wrap-up day (max. group size 30 people)
- Wrap-up: what we have learned
- Reflection: themes of workshops and the local reality
- Making action plans: What we can do to improve the learning results
Sharing with peers and if possibly, with different stakeholders