Answer: they're non-existent lmao outside of health class where were taught real world lessons

What a waste of expenses. Better off taking the students to visit a pig farm. Instilling fear into students with all that load of useless knowledge

Only ONE TIME this entire school year has a teacher at school taught us something that we would be better off knowing in the future! Only ONE TIME! And it was fun to learn about too

Living the example inside of them. For example, in a programmer and I aspire to be a programmer teacher, to do a game like snake isn't hard to explain, but you can use your students like 'pixels' and with that, making every possible move with them, will allow to know what the heck is going on in execution time.

I'm a Science teacher here in the Philippines and I also practice the so-called hands-on learning / constructivist approach. It's indeed effective.

Which are you living country?

That is amazing!!! You are very lucky. Please give her my regards 😊

@@timwalker6836 I will!

Jesus. Jeri, this u?

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I appreciate the idea of using artifacts in the classroom, Andrew. Thanks for sharing with us.

I am euning a school for needy students in Skardu . Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan. I realy excited to learn teaching methods from finish teachers. Ifplease anyone of you( who is teaching or associated with teaching) in Finland add me on any proper platform or contact me on my whatsaap bo 03123822143 Name Waqar Ahmed Peincupal at Kainat Public School and college Skardu

Thank you! I appreciate your encouragement.

Awesome!

Thank you so much! Glad you’ve enjoyed the book and the videos. I’m looking forward to sharing more with you and this community! 😊

Thanks for sharing, Shelley! Awesome to hear that you're a former research scientist who's moved into the classroom to teach young ones. You're so right about funding (or lack thereof) making a difference.

Thanks a lot for the tip! The methodology sounds great. It reminds me of the math approach I used in Massachusetts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_in_Numbers,_Data,_and_Space

By the way, nice job on your vlog!

@@timwalker6836 Based on a quick look into that one there is indeed some major similarities! It's a shame that even in Finland it isn't widely used because I believe it's one of the best methods of understanding maths. And thanks for your kind words, I appreciate it a lot!

@@henrifin where do you teach? Any chance I could visit? :)

@@timwalker6836 I'm actually finishing my studies and working on my Master's thesis in University of Tampere. I do work as a substitute teacher in local pre-schools/kindergartens every now and then but not regularly. I encourage you to get familiar with Finnish early childhood education though, and if you wish so, I'm happy to help :)

Hi, Sarah! Thanks for your patience. "Taught by Finland" ended back in 2018 (I never published the next episode), but I put together a Finnish kindergarten video that you can find here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mdhhfZZmrdC5hYk.html. I'd love to hear what you think!

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i think its not about where we go, but how we can help create impact where we are.

When theres someone have a platform about no home work policy then everyone didnt get the point and everyone get angry usually the teachers 😩

Try bookstores. Akateeminen kirjakauppa and Suomalainen Kirjakauppa. At least you'll have somewhere to start from.

The national exams are at at ~18, at the end of high school. But high school is not compulsory, after 9th grade you can just go to vocational school if you want. The final grades for the compulsory schooling from years 1-9 are based on the grades of years 7-9, but weighted towards the last year I think, especially if the student has improved toward the end. In the first 6 years, grades are given in some schools, but not all, or maybe e.g. starting from grade 4 or such.

fucking atte

also biology

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Spurdo spärde

Canada is still better than most of the countries,as an Asian I hold Canada in high regards,I'm in Grade 10th too lol

Just like in many more countries. Teaching has been shifted from understanding to passing. Though both are feasible, the emphasis of the latter to the former has led to a dementia in the entire teaching system.

Assistant teachers are often university students doing training as a part of their degree. Or they can be recent graduates who haven't gotten a permanent position yet. So I think at minimum they have a bachelors degree and some amount of pedagogic courses.

jonespumppu ...Does this mean that most classes in schools across Finland do not have a classroom teaching assistant in every class and that only schools near a teacher training centre have this support when students need to visit schools as part of their training?

@@kenrotheram It varies from my experience. One shouldnt expect there to be an assistant teacher in the classroom on a regular basis cause that's often not the case, even in the capital region. They come and go. Every student was always tended to though in my school days, as someone who refused to study math at home myself I often was given an extra hour after class to go through homework and stuff in a group of 3-4 with the teacher alone. This was usually after our final lesson so it didnt take time from other studies and pretty much kept me from flunking.

Annika Pakarinen ...Thanks for the information about the number of assistant teachers. Some articles on the web, and even those that are academic, give the impression that there is always an assistant teacher in every class. It is difficult to balance reports and the most famous misleading one is a clip that shows a senior figure in education saying there is ‘no homework’... I am a great admirer of your school system and try to get several sources of information. We do not have continuous assessment in the U.K. Does it help students to have a short test at the end of every lesson and an examination week every term?

@@kenrotheram It's the same thing with the "free healthcare" rumor going around, it's called "free" because it's ALMOST free. We still have some minor fees to pay along with any medications prescribed, unlike Canada. Homework definitely exists, but you start school off with none at all for a good year or so and then as you move up a year you're hit with a bit more than the previous until it sort of reaches its cap. I always managed to do mine in around 15 minutes in a rush regardless, so again, almost "no homework". I do remember assistant teachers being more common in elementary school (7-12) and I had a regular assistant teacher in the classroom for around a full year in grade 1 and rotating ones in grade 2. In middle school and up its more of a rarity. Continuous assessment definitely helped most of the procrastinators like myself to keep on track with the studies, it's hard for a child to fall behind on their studies unnoticed when the teacher is on track with everyone's progress week per week. They didn't stress us out much at all either. I wasn't fond of the examination week every term though. Ideally I would have had a week for each test so I could have solely studied for just one subject in a more organized manner, but that comes down to personal preference I guess. I think most kids performed their best in them because of the way it is and then again I don't really know if a week break between each exam would have helped me study more or just broken my will to study instead.

11 students is a very small class even in Finland, at least in a big school like that. My upper elementary school (10 years ago) had classes with around 20 students.

The size of her 9th grade biology class impressed me too! Marjo told me that her 7th and 8th grade biology classes are larger. Budgets vary from school to school, municipality to municipality. Also, class size can vary from subject to subject.

Timothy D. Walker I understand thar 7-9 grade is middle school. Are there separate schools - primary, middle and secondary?

Lauri Levälehto ....Did you have small tests at the end of each lesson and termly tests or was testing more frequent?

@@kenrotheram Correct. It's also known as "lower secondary school." Yes, you can find separate schools. The most common model is the comprehensive school (gr.1-9), so elementary and middle school students are in the same school together.

You probably could find a lot of information from this site. www.oph.fi/english/education_system/basic_education But to answer to your question, they start to teach the science classes separately around seventh grade. Before that they all are taught under a enviromental studies. Back in my days in lower secondary school we did trips to outside of the class room. But then it is not very difficult to find some nature around you in Finland. Even in Helsinki there are big parks and little islands of trees that are left between buildings so you can take the class room there to do some real life research. And about the testing that you were asking in earlier comments. Teacher do test their pupils to see that they have learned and to give gradings, but we don't have that nation wide testing that USA seems to have. Teachers do their own tests that they give. There is one mandatory test in the end of high school. Matriculation test that is the final test in high school is same for everyone in whole country. In the night grade there is nation wide test too but that is not mandatory to take. If you take it and it goes well you can raise your grades with it but it will not lower your final grades if it goes badly. Teachers in Finland have quite a lot of freedom how they run their class rooms and they are trusted that they do know how to do that too. The grades you have in the end of night grade does have a say where you can continue with your studies. Specially with popular high schools and vocational lines there can be competition so much that they do raise the grades that you need to have to get in. But with the highter education we have entrance exams that will determinate who will get in. You can get some extra points from the grades you get in your matriculation exam, but those are not the main criteria. There is couple exceptions with science since you can get straight in to chemistry, physics and math departments in university if you have gotten highest or second highest grade in those subjects in matriculation exam. I hope this opens things up some. :)

Besides the other comment, even in 7th-9th grades and high school, nearly all teachers are qualified in at least two subjects, e.g. physics+math. I've been told by friends who are in teaching that even in the capital, few schools are large enough, or even if they are, prefer not to have single-subject-only teachers for most subjects (e.g. PE is an exception). So at least two subjects is seen as almost a basic requirement for getting a job. Many teachers also add a third subject, e.g. adding chemistry.

Virpukka ...Thanks for the link and there are quite a few interesting articles on the web about Finnish education. Unfortunately some links lead to sites written in Finnish only. I would be fascinated to read about the national curriculum in detail for lower, middle and upper school and see some examples of your examination questions. Your curriculum is fascinating too with an emphasis on environmental studies and taking the children out of school. This makes the curriculum ‘enquiry based’, ‘relevant’ and a ‘real world’ curriculum. In the UK we have an academic ‘knowledge based’ curriculum with an emphasis on facts to learn especially for years 11-13. This situation probably arose from the idea that knowledge should be introduced in stages that get progressively more difficult. This is called ‘the spiral curriculum’. Many counties around the world use a linear curriculum and never repeat topics. Younger pupils in the UK often do no science in elementary schools as they are committed to gaining high SAT scores for English and Maths at 11. There is a move this year to use inspectors to find out if schools have, or have not, a ‘broad, balanced and relevant’ school curriculum. Teaching to the test is a problem in the UK.

Snaake42 ...Would it be fair to say that in elementary school and middle school the science curriculum works through an enquiry approach using environmental studies and that in the upper school (13+) the curriculum changes to a knowledge based approach with chemistry, physics and biology studies using textbooks and laboratory experiences?

I think the enquiry method even in primary school is a fairly new thing, implemented this decade iirc. I think it's supposed to continue in secondary school too (grades 7-9), but based on the bit of subbing I've done for a friend in physics/chemistry/math, at least that school was still mostly working with a more traditional knowledge-based method. I haven't studied teaching at all though, so I can't really give any in-depth answers.

Depends on the day. Some days at 8 some days at 11

This is not a competition to see who's more tired.

@@0123jonas stop being a salty lad and enjoy your 8+ hrs of sleep.

So that the exchange American Teacher can understand them !