My 15 minute presentation for a panel talk at GETS 2010, "Building a World-Class Education System". The actual panel discussion that followed is not included. I discuss Finland's PISA success and the reasons behind it, as well as some future focus areas.
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Education in Finland
1. Building a world
class education
system - Education in
Finland
GETS 2010, Calgary, Canada
15th July, 2010
Tarmo Toikkanen, http://tarmo.fi
tarmo.toikkanen@aalto.fi
3. PISA results for
Finland
Literacy Math Science
2000 1st 4th 3rd
2003 1st 2nd 1st
2006 2nd 2nd 1st
4. The official explanation for PISA success
• equal opportunities to education
• localized educational responsibility
• free education and welfare (school meals, commutes, health care)
• Master level teachers
• high quality teaching
• great degree of autonomy to schools and teachers
• collaboration between schools, homes, and officials
14. Official future focus
areas
• smaller group sizes
• special education
• student counseling
• afternoon extra-curricular
activities
• school-home collaboration
15. Unofficial future
trends
• open content
• non-formal and informal
learning
• progressive inquiry, PBL and
other “advanced” pedagogies
• blended learning and social
media
• school-society collaboration