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04.07.2024, Johanna Järvinen-Taubert

As striking it may appear, Finland doesn’t have any school inspections or teacher inspection of any form. Quality assurance in Finnish education is based on steering, collaboration and process evaluation instead of controlling. Steering is done through information, support and funding. The system relies on the proficiency and conscientiousness of…

25.06.2024, Ellimaija Ahonen

We at Mentor had the pleasure of hosting a group of teacher students from The State University of New York. Mentor ry is the subject association of Lifelong learning and education students at Tampere University. We spent a morning together discussing Finnish student life. As a warm-up, we played a…

06.06.2024, Ellimaija Ahonen

Finnish education interests people internationally with all ages and at different stages of their careers. In May, we were privileged to host three very different groups as Study Tour guests! Diversity of Study Tours and guests are the best parts of our job! At the start of May, a group…

22.05.2024, Ellimaija Ahonen

How is Outdoor education in Poland? Last week we attended Vivelo Fair in Warsaw, Poland. One of the themes of the Fair was Finland. We were invited as a keynote speaker with a topic Ourdoor Education in Finland. Full house learning Finnish best practices and getting a glimpse what kind…

16.05.2024, Ellimaija Ahonen

Greetings from Romania! Our CEO Ellimaija Ahonen and Pedagogical Director Johanna Järvinen-Taubert have spent last three days in the beautiful city of Sibiu which totally stole our hearts! In 2021, we shared good news with our network: we had written a book called Finnish Education in Practice: What, Why and…

03.05.2024, Ellimaija Ahonen

We are happy to share a great summary by one of the Principal Study Tour in Finland participants, Principal Shanthan Naidu from Orakei School. He attended our program in Tampere in April together with other 18 experts from New Zealand and Australia. “I have recently returned from a principal leadership…

17.04.2024, Ellimaija Ahonen

What a wonderful group by Tours for Teachers we had last week! Teachers, educators and principals from Australia were really active and made some great reflection of the similarities and differences between these two education systems and approaches. Thank you everyone for a memorable week together exploring Finnish Education, we…

09.04.2024, Ellimaija Ahonen

In March we had principals in Finland, a bunch of wonderful visitors from US and Thailand – such an active and enthusiastic group and it was our joy to exchange ideas and experiences with you during the Principal Study Tour! We are happy to share some insights by the US…

19.03.2024, Ellimaija Ahonen

Last week provided rays of sunlight and many insights into Early childhood education and care. Our lovely guests from Pakistan enjoyed five different visits to daycare centers and schools. What were the key early childhood education and care takeways to implement back home? More time to be spent outdoors daily…

29.01.2024, Ellimaija Ahonen

Study Tour season is on! During one of the coldest weeks of the Winter in Finland we welcomed a group from the tropical Bahamas. Sustainable education was one of the most important topics that resonated with our visitors. Our experts introduced them many topics such as Versatile learning environments, Curriculum…

17.11.2023, Ellimaija Ahonen

This year we welcomed 150 brave educators all around the world to Tampere, Finland! We had the honor to meet these curious, open-minded and skilled teachers and principals from several different countries from all continents! Learning Scoop is renowned for its quality study tours, which have also been awarded as…

04.05.2023, Ellimaija Ahonen

While in Tampere why not to forget the urban nature for an evening? We recommend to get energized in Finnish forest! Our Study Tour visitors enjoy Finnish Nature Experience, which is a guided evening spent in Finnish nature. We provide the experience together with our partner Seventen Tours. Let the fun…

12.04.2023, Päivi Valtonen

  Free Webinar Outdoor Exercises and Art in STEAM projects on 27th April at 17.00 (CET)     Using outdoors as a learning environment in STEAM projects has many benefits. It increases students’ motivation and engagement to study phenomena in real-life environments. Exploring things outdoors strengthens students’ relationship to nature…

28.10.2022, Learning Scoop

Playvation and Learning scoop have joined forces to create a brand-new course on early language teaching. The course “Teaching languages to young children” will help early educators to teach foreign language to the children in their care.  Two major players in Finnish education come together as Learning Scoop and Playvation…

10.10.2022, Learning Scoop

EU for Inclusive Teaching project is now officially launched! EU 4 Inclusive Teaching is an EU-funded project which aims at introducing an inclusive teaching model and a competence-based curricula  in the pre-university education system in Albania. The project will address the clearly stated need to modernize the teaching profession (competence-based…