Joint programs
Learning Scoop has had the joy of providing joint programs for university students with several universities. We have been privileged to work with the Duquesne University (USA), SUNY Oneonta (USA) and the University of Tokyo (Japan) in joint programs. We have also hosted teacher students from the Education University of Hong Kong.
Most of the students participating in our joint programs have been studying education and aiming for teachers’ profession. The joint programs have included university courses by Finnish lecturers, school visits and job shadowing with Finnish teachers, various cultural experiences with Finnish university students, in Finnish nature and sauna etc.
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Our happy customers say
Between the school visits and the countless hours of exploring the cities, we are learning so much about the culture here in Finland, their ways of life, and most importantly, about their success in education. I have loved this opportunity to learn more strategies as a future teacher.
We started to do this research, because we believed with this too traditional system that we have in Iran our children are not enjoying their school time as much as they potentially could. This research is going to study the most powerful and practical educational system of the planet, FINLAND’S. Which leads their students in depth of real life with care and between the years of school, they provide a beautiful space of study for children to be into. Finland was an example of how we can make an ideal society out of a true, standard educational system.
The Learning Scoop program was thoughtfully sequenced to allow us time to both see the early childhood learning environment and hear from experts in the field through afternoon lectures. More than these formal learning experiences and just as valuable, was the time built in for informal learning through structured and non-structured reflection time. Throughout my travels I shared my experiences with educators from home with daily posts around various learning themes. There was high engagement and curiosity and many who wanted to have follow up webinars to dig in more. While some following my posts, were skeptical, naming the obvious that Finland’s culture is so vastly different from ours that if they had our history, levels of poverty, diversity, or other conditions it may not be as successful, we had great conversations centered around transferrable practices that have stretched our thinking. Learning about how the Finland government sets up its citizens for success with social supports was quite inspiring, and it gave us great traction to advocate for supports we are planning for our early childhood educators through our new Early Childhood Innovation Center (ECIC) facility and programming
