From Finland to USA – reflections of Early Childhood Education and Care Study Tour
Hello from USA, I want to take a moment to thank all of the Learning Scoop staff and teachers in the schools for a phenomenal Early Childhood Education and Care Study Tour week in Tampere, Finland! Most schools in the USA are trying to push children to learn earlier and faster, in a timetable that…
Read MoreTeachers are teachers no matter where you go
I have been a class teacher for 18 years, worked with teachers in Finland and abroad and for last five years I have also trained both Finnish and foreign teachers. This was my first time in Malta, where we had workshops on Finnish Education. A new country is always a new one. You can never…
Read MoreMalta calling!
Learning Scoop experts Johanna Järvinen-Taubert and Kaisa Tuomarla are heading to Malta to held workshops for Maltese educators there. Regarding to that they were asked to provide some background information for Maltese media. Here are some of their answers: 1. What is the secret of the success in Finnish education? It is a combination of…
Read MoreCustomers from 35 different countries
Quite often we´ve been asked which countries are your target markets. It is pretty hard to answer; some months you are dealing a lot with customers and potential leads from USA, next month South East Asia is a hot topic on the map. And they all are very important to us. This far we have…
Read MoreDesigning quality lessons
When we have visitors visiting Finnish classes they are very interested in the way lessons are carried out in Finland. Some visitors recognize modern pedagogical practices, while the others tell us that Finnish teaching is very different from what is the practice in their own countries. The classes we visit are also often very different…
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Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny
Read MoreHobbyland
”Finland is a Hobbyland. Everyone has a hobby”, said one of our foreign friends recently. Yes, hobbies are valued by the Ministry of Education, by employers, homes and friends. Also, adults have hobbies. Having hobbies is normal. The Ministry of Education set last year a workgroup to investigate the hobbies and possibilities how every child…
Read MoreWhy Learning Scoop is called as Learning Scoop?
We have got many questions about our company name; where does it come from and what does it represent? When we decided to start running a company which would export Finnish education practices abroad , we faced a number of difficult decisions; company form, stakeholders, partnerships, vision, strategy, mission, graphic expression, font, business cards, budget…
Read MoreStrategic Practices of the Institutional School: Discursive approach
Today we are celebrating our friend´s achievement! Kristiina Engblom-Pelkkala has been researching Strategic Practices of the institutional School in her doctoral dissertation. We are happy to share the abstract of the thesis below: “Education has been a central value for Finnish people ever since its inception. The school has been considered a significant institution, a…
Read MoreBenchmarking Finland – study tour participants taking part of competition
Sometimes you end up being part of something bigger you didn´t even know about. We were thrilled and humble to hear that our wise, future-oriented Iranian study tour participants are taking part of LG Global Challenger IRAN competition. They traveled to Finland to deep dive into Finnish Education System, to learn about best practices and find…
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