Education in Finland and/or Estonia – Original Best Practices Benchmarking course - only for teachers of grades 1-9 (age 6-15 yrs.)
Observe lessons in schools of Finland and/or Estonia, top performers of European school education, interact with colleagues of your own school level, and contribute to discussion with a ‘success story’ of your own school.
School Development
School Development course focuses on the most innovative development in school education in Finland and Estonia.
What NEXT in Finnish Classrooms! New learning ways & Spaces
Meet 21st century skills based education through a deep study and a shadowing in a newly rebuilt Finnish school - a school building that promotes and supports learning.
LIFE2022 SHADOWING EXPERIENCE
Visit Lapland to get insights into the famous Finnish education. Understand how everyday life works in Finnish schools by shadowing Finnish teachers in Rovaniemi, Lapland and by listening to the top Finnish education experts in Educa, the largest event for the education and training sector in Finland. In 2020, more than 700 education professionals around the world attended Educa in Helsinki, in addition to the nearly 20000 Finnish participants.
Let’s learn about vocational education in Finland
Learn from Finnish competence-based teaching through theory and practice, the objective of the most extensive reform in Finland in almost 20 years was to make VET more efficient and better match qualifications to labor market needs.
Special Education in Finland – Original Best Practices Benchmarking course: SEN Teaching Edition
SEN is targeted at teachers and school heads who have integrated students with special needs / learning difficulties, work in special education classes in mainstream schools / SEN schools or have students with a need of Easy-to-Read language such as immigrants and elderly citizens.
Tap-Swipe-Pinch Learning
Enhance digital skills and competences by learning the best practice approaches and practical examples for using m- devices and apps in lessons and education.
Upgrade & Update Your Language Lessons – English, Culture & ICT Skills
A specifically designed course for language teachers who want to update their own English skills with a native speaker and upgrade their language lessons by implementing ICT, new pedagogical ideas, e-testing and creative learning methods.
Coaching strategies for schools – turn change into long lasting benefits
Supporting school development through coaching competences of teachers as a key factor in the quality of/impact on education.
A Classroom in My Back Pocket
At home or in school, learn how to fully utilise the opportunities for teaching and learning that mobile digital devices and applications provide.
Education in Finland and/or Estonia – Original Best Practices Benchmarking course - for all school levels
Observe lessons in schools of Finland and/or Estonia, top performers of European school education, interact with colleagues of your own school level, and contribute to discussion with a ‘success story’ of your own school.
Integrated curriculum – Teaching global skills
Curricula transformation is taking place in school education. Phenomenon-based or multidisciplinary replaces encyclopedic approach to learning. This course strongly bases on curricular changes in Finland.
Playful Science Education for small children through play, drama and stories
Learn about early science education through play, drama and stories through an insight into the Finnish Kids Science.
Digital STEAM. Teaching integrated science, arts and mathematics with digital devices
Teaching integrated science, arts and mathematics - Digital STEAM with a focus on pedagogical use of tablets in-class, science museum and outdoors settings.
Game-Based Learning & Gamification
The practice-based course will offer techniques and tools to introduce game-based learning and gamification in your lessons.
Consolidating Good CLIL Practice
A substantial storehouse of practical high-impact ideas through an interactive approach for adaptation in your context in order to enhance student learning.
Coding and Robotics in Classroom
Bring programming and hands-on robotics into the classroom and curriculum according to the material prepared for and standards set by the Finnish national curriculum for primary education.
How to make your school more international – a practice-based approach
Introduce internationalisation in your school, become a good coordinator of internationalisation and set-up quality international projects.
eAssessment: Assessment of/for learning with digital tools
Learn how to use digital tools for summative and formative assessment in the context of teaching various subjects in primary, secondary and vocational schools.
Future skills – schools defending the planet against the climate change
What are the skills your students need in future, especially in solving wicked problems like climate change? Let’s have a deep look at the future skills, foresights, scenarios, weak signals and trends in an interesting and playful way and take the future in our hands.
Kids code – Teaching Computational Thinking in Primary School
Practical, hands-on course for primary school class teachers interested in teaching playful coding, robotics and algorithmic thinking to their students.
Digital Turn: How to make your school more digital
Quality course with a focus on change management on the organisational level, in the context of designing, implementing and evaluating school-wide digital innovations.
Migrants’ course: Let’s use ICT in teaching and learning of Newly-Arrived Migrants
Innovative learning approaches for teaching migrant students. Practice-based training in Finland, a country with real challenges of migrants’ integration.
Education in Finland and/or Estonia – Original Best Practices Benchmarking course - only for teachers and principals of grades 10-12
Observe lessons in schools of Finland and/or Estonia, top performers of European school education, interact with colleagues of your own school level, and contribute to discussion with a ‘success story’ of your own school.