Posts Tagged ‘coaching’
Team Learning – a valuable tool for 21st century skills
Learning in the Finnish high school has previously had a strong focus on the individual student and the Matriculation Examination. Learning and teaching both, have been lonely jobs. Today, there is a change towards more collaborative methods. In the autumn 2016 schools in Finland started to work with the new core curriculum, and we were…
Read MoreGreetings from Vietnam educational roadshow
Busy training days, hot and humid weather, super delicious food and happy people! During their stay in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, experts sent by Learning Scoop Elina Harju and Jukka Miettunen have held training session on various themes such as Activating teaching methods, Differentiation of content based teaching vs competency based. Participants have…
Read MoreTeam learning (TBL) in the upper secondary school – focus changes from teaching to learning
Team-Based Learning implementation is based on four underlying principles (Michaelsen & Richards 2005): •Groups should be properly formed (e.g. Intellectual talent should be equally distributed among the groups). These teams are fixed for the whole course. •Students are accountable for their pre-learning and for working in teams. •Team assignments must promote both learning and team…
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