Tech Toolbox for Teachers
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.
Education in Finland and/or Estonia – Original Best Practices Benchmarking courses
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.
Education in Finland and/or Estonia – Original Best Practices Benchmarking course - only for teachers of grades 1-9 (age 6-15 yrs.)
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.
Future Classroom
Culture must change! Finnish schools give an insight on how the whole educational community responded together to the challenges of the Finnish curriculum reforms by creating school buildings and environments which support and promote learning. Unique opportunity to visit Havukoski Koulu and other Finnish schools specializing with innovative transformations of "future" classrooms in Finland and learn how to change for success!
LIFE SHADOWING EXPERIENCE
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.
Special Education in Finland – Original Best Practices Benchmarking course: SEN Teaching Edition
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.
Upgrade & Update Your Language Lessons – English, Culture & ICT Skills
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.
Coaching in schools
The importance of coaching in education has extended in recent years with a notable increase in coaching activities in this sector. The aim is to challenge students and educators to achieve more of their potential. Learn how to improve your school by creating a learning organization with an educational coaching culture.
Education in Finland and/or Estonia – Original Best Practices Benchmarking course - for all school levels
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.
Curriculum Innovation in Finland and Estonia
Amazing PISA results in Finnish and Estonian schools! Why?What?How? The Finnish curriculum focuses on two things: school culture and integrative approach while transforming schools into growth communities and learning environments. Curriculum reforms worked a miracle for Estonia and put the country in the spotlight! With less than 30% spent on education, Estonia ranks first in reading literacy and science in PISA 2018.
Digital STEAM. Teaching integrated science, arts and mathematics with digital devices
Teaching integrated science, arts and mathematics - Digital STEAM with a focus on pedagogical use of tablets in-class, science museum and outdoors settings.
Game-Based Learning & Gamification
The practice-based course will offer techniques and tools to introduce game-based learning and gamification in your lessons.
Consolidating Good CLIL Practice
A substantial storehouse of practical high-impact ideas through an interactive approach for adaptation in your context in order to enhance student learning.
Coding and Robotics in Classroom
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!
How to make your school more international – a practice-based approach
Introduce internationalisation in your school, become a good coordinator of internationalisation and set-up quality international projects.
eAssessment: Assessment of/for learning with digital tools
Learn how to use digital tools for summative and formative assessment in the context of teaching various subjects in primary, secondary and vocational schools.
Education in Finland – Original Best Practices Benchmarking course - Refugees and Migrants
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.
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Sustainability - Teaching Eco Skills
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.
Digital Kids – Teaching Computational Thinking in Primary School
Practical, hands-on course for primary school class teachers interested in teaching playful coding, robotics and algorithmic thinking to their students.
Digital Turn: How to make your school more digital
Quality course with a focus on change management on the organisational level, in the context of designing, implementing and evaluating school-wide digital innovations.
Refugees and Migrants - How to use ICT in Teaching and Learning
Innovative learning approaches for teaching migrant students. Practice-based training in Finland, a country with real challenges of migrants’ integration.
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Future Education - Learning for Life
Let's progress through visioning the future to solving existing problems so that the solution is formulated to work. When we see that problems are solvable, the stress we experience is relieved. These same skills and exercises can be transferred to students. The course offers the unique opportunity to visit schools specialized in teaching future skills.
Original Best Practices Benchmarking course - Vocational and Adult Education in Finland and Estonia
Learn from the Finnish competence-based teaching through theory and practice, the objective of the most extensive reform in Finland in almost 20 years was to make vocational education more efficient and to better match qualifications to labor market needs. The course offers a unique opportunity for workshop shadowing at VET and adult education organizations and apprenticeship companies in Finland and Estonia.
Education in Finland and/or Estonia – Original Best Practices Benchmarking course - only for teachers and principals of grades 10-12
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.