Practical hands-on use of a wide and varied range of digital learning tools and platforms to create effective and engaging teaching and learning resources.
Observe lessons in schools of Finland and/or Estonia, top performers of European school education, interact with colleagues of your own school level, and contribute to discussion with a ‘success story’ of your own school.
Observe lessons in schools of Finland and/or Estonia, top performers of European school education, interact with colleagues of your own school level, and contribute to discussion with a ‘success story’ of your own school.
School Development course focuses on the most innovative development in school education in Finland and Estonia.
Meet 21st century skills based education through a deep study and a shadowing in a newly rebuilt Finnish school - a school building that promotes and supports learning.
Visit Lapland to get insights into the famous Finnish education. Understand how everyday life works in Finnish schools by shadowing Finnish teachers in Rovaniemi, Lapland and by listening to the top Finnish education experts in Educa, the largest event for the education and training sector in Finland. In 2020, more than 700 education professionals around the world attended Educa in Helsinki, in addition to the nearly 20000 Finnish participants.
Learn from Finnish competence-based teaching through theory and practice, the objective of the most extensive reform in Finland in almost 20 years was to make VET more efficient and better match qualifications to labor market needs.
SEN is targeted at teachers and school heads who have integrated students with special needs / learning difficulties, work in special education classes in mainstream schools / SEN schools or have students with a need of Easy-to-Read language such as immigrants and elderly citizens.
A specifically designed course for language teachers who want to update their own English skills with a native speaker and upgrade their language lessons by implementing ICT, new pedagogical ideas, e-testing and creative learning methods.
Supporting school development through coaching competences of teachers as a key factor in the quality of/impact on education.
Observe lessons in schools of Finland and/or Estonia, top performers of European school education, interact with colleagues of your own school level, and contribute to discussion with a ‘success story’ of your own school.
Curricula transformation is taking place in school education. Phenomenon-based or multidisciplinary replaces encyclopedic approach to learning. This course strongly bases on curricular changes in Finland.
Teaching integrated science, arts and mathematics - Digital STEAM with a focus on pedagogical use of tablets in-class, science museum and outdoors settings.
The practice-based course will offer techniques and tools to introduce game-based learning and gamification in your lessons.
A substantial storehouse of practical high-impact ideas through an interactive approach for adaptation in your context in order to enhance student learning.
How the way we sit and stand can change the way we learn, speak and collaborate in classrooms.
Bring programming and hands-on robotics into the classroom and curriculum according to the material prepared for and standards set by the Finnish national curriculum for primary education. Welcome to our Northern Lights November courses!
Introduce internationalisation in your school, become a good coordinator of internationalisation and set-up quality international projects.
Learn how to use digital tools for summative and formative assessment in the context of teaching various subjects in primary, secondary and vocational schools.
Observe lessons in schools of Finland, top performers of European school education, interact with colleagues of your own school level, and contribute to discussion with a ‘success story’ of your own school. First hand experience on working with refugees and migrants in Finnish schools.
What are the skills your students need in future, especially in solving wicked problems like climate warming and biodiversity loss? Circular economy and gaining competences for a circular economy are revolutionizing and conventionalizing. Let’s have a deep look at the future skills, foresights, scenarios, weak signals and trends in an interesting and playful way and take the future in our hands.
Practical, hands-on course for primary school class teachers interested in teaching playful coding, robotics and algorithmic thinking to their students.
Quality course with a focus on change management on the organisational level, in the context of designing, implementing and evaluating school-wide digital innovations.
Innovative learning approaches for teaching migrant students. Practice-based training in Finland, a country with real challenges of migrants’ integration.
Observe lessons in schools of Finland and/or Estonia, top performers of European school education, interact with colleagues of your own school level, and contribute to discussion with a ‘success story’ of your own school.