Meet Tampere – All Bright! Ambassador Julia Rigal
It´s our pure delight to present Julia the Ambassador of Learning to our network. Her personal aim is to promote Tampere as an education hub and to help bring this expertise to other countries. “For the past seven years, my professional life has been all about education: Back in Austria (and partly in Germany), I…
Read MoreMaking sense – thinking skills
I read an interesting article written by three ladies: Ms Irmeli Halinen, Ms Minna Harmanen and Ms Paula Mattila. They are discribing the Curriculun reform in Finland specially focusing the question: why Finland is Introducing Multiliteracy in Teaching and Learning. You can read the whole article here. In the Finnish Core Curriculum, the objectives for…
Read MoreQuality Education for All!
Last week I had the privilege of training Education experts from the Kingdom of Bahrain in cooperation with our partner Creative Council for Education. What surprises me – I know it should not! – is how easy it was for us to understand each other! The Bahraini experts told us about the activating methods they…
Read MoreThank you Kingdom of Bahrain for Educational visit in Finland
In cooperation with Council for Creative Education a delegation from Kingdom of Bahrain visited Finland last week. Hands on experience of various creative methods and activities as an actual Finnish classroom through workshops. Learning Scoop´s expertise covered also topic as Vocational excellence – How to achieve in sustained manner? Thank you everyone and let´s keep in touch!
Read MoreStudy Tour Finland: How much testing is really needed?
What a fine and international Study Tour we had last week! We at Learning Scoop team learned so much ourselves again, too. One very interesting talk we had was about evaluation and assessment. Our participant from USA started to think aloud, how much time it takes to have test after every chapter. Teachers in USA…
Read MoreFinnish preschool children learn through play and joy
My 6-year-old son started preschool this fall. In fact, he would have preferred to skip the summer vacation, because he had so much fun at the preschool orientation evening in May. In Finland pre-primary education became compulsory in August 2015. However, about 96 % of six-year-olds attended already when pre-primary education was voluntary. In Finland…
Read MoreTämä ei ole OPS
René Magritten maalauksessa on kuvattu piippu, jonka alla lukee: ”Ceci n’est pas une pipe” eli “Tämä ei ole piippu”. Tuossa maalauksessa ja monissa muissa todellisuuden ja kuvitellun rajaa raapivissa ajatelmissa käytetään niin sanottua metafiktiota. Tuon termin loi aikoinaan William H. Gass. Hänen mukaansa tällaisella kikkailulla tarkoitetaan ”fiktiota, joka korostaa omaa fiktioluonnettaan ja asettaa kysymyksiä fiktion ja…
Read MoreEmpowered by nature and art
Finnish summer is short and intensive. We enjoy of it fully. What a power sun, warm and light have! Only people who have longed for it can really appreciate it. We fill us up with summer. Nature is always near in Finland. One can easily find a lake shore or forest. We have fresh air…
Read MoreEducation Export – Mission Impossible?
Education export – or global education – has many critics. Exporting education is said to be impossible – even unethical. From our point of view this argument is based on few misconceptions, which I try to tackle in this post. The education export’s critics’ favourite argument is: “You cannot export Finnish school or Finnish education…
Read MoreEducation Export – Mission Impossible?
Education export – or global education – has many critics. Exporting education is said to be impossible – even unethical. From our point of view this argument is based on few misconceptions, which I try to tackle in this post. The education export’s critics’ favorite argument is: “You cannot export Finnish school or Finnish education…
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