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