(PISA is an international study. It aims to evaluate educations system worldwide every three years by students aged 15 years old. Here you can read more about the PISA study: http://www.oecd.org/pisa/)
Pasi tries to show us how the finnish education system works, because it's not possible to give us a concrete answer for the question that a lot of people worldwide try to get as well. There are so many factors that matters for having a good school system.
Here some discussed points during the lessons:
There is a law that says every 45 minutes there is a break for everybody and children can do whatever they want for 15 minutes. There are a lot of children outside, also during winter.
Beside that every school is open to the public. Every citizen has the right to visit any school during every lesson at any time.
I like the conception of that. Sometimes I have the feeling that in Switzerland lessons are quite different when parents, relatives or school inspectors are visiting compared to lessons that are hold when there are no visitors. Mostly teachers in Switzerland try to do some interesting and active lessons during the visitor hours which I totally understand. I have some reminder of my childhood that I was often thinking that the teacher tried to do everything perfect and to be well received. I always thought that this is really strange. Why do we have to change and try to be more "perfect" than what we usually are?! Aren't we already good? Why do we have to fool the visitors?
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense of act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first." - Jim Morrison
And back to the school system....
The finnish education system is similar to the swiss system. At the age of 7 years they start with their basic school (primary school 6 years, middle school 3 years), so they are finished at the age of 16 years. Before that there is the preschool (kindergarden). With 16 years EVERYBODY has the change to decide what they want to do - either general upper secondary school, vocational school or maybe "10th school year".
Again the graphic of the finnish education system
As the most of us know, it's really hard to take the right decision and already know what your profession is going to be when you are a "teenie" (doesn't mean that it becomes easier when you are older, but lets focus...=))
Finland is supporting the kids as follows:
In middle school they have a subject once a week, where they talk about the future - all about jobs, schools, apprenticeship and so on.
Once they decided what way they take, there is always the chance to switch school if the children realized it wasn't the right decision. This is also possible in Switzerland, but there is a huge difference between Switzerland and Finland; The children in Finland don't have to start from the beginning with everything, "the credits" are credited. In Switzerland you always start from the beginning, there are some exemptions but mostly you don't get any credits that are charged to one's account. Awesome, don't you think? As a student you are thankful for this, don't you think?! And it makes so sense!
Beside that every school is open to the public. Every citizen has the right to visit any school during every lesson at any time.
I like the conception of that. Sometimes I have the feeling that in Switzerland lessons are quite different when parents, relatives or school inspectors are visiting compared to lessons that are hold when there are no visitors. Mostly teachers in Switzerland try to do some interesting and active lessons during the visitor hours which I totally understand. I have some reminder of my childhood that I was often thinking that the teacher tried to do everything perfect and to be well received. I always thought that this is really strange. Why do we have to change and try to be more "perfect" than what we usually are?! Aren't we already good? Why do we have to fool the visitors?
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense of act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first." - Jim Morrison
And back to the school system....
The finnish education system is similar to the swiss system. At the age of 7 years they start with their basic school (primary school 6 years, middle school 3 years), so they are finished at the age of 16 years. Before that there is the preschool (kindergarden). With 16 years EVERYBODY has the change to decide what they want to do - either general upper secondary school, vocational school or maybe "10th school year".
Again the graphic of the finnish education system
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| cf: http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/Finland_from_Re.ViCa |
As the most of us know, it's really hard to take the right decision and already know what your profession is going to be when you are a "teenie" (doesn't mean that it becomes easier when you are older, but lets focus...=))
Finland is supporting the kids as follows:
In middle school they have a subject once a week, where they talk about the future - all about jobs, schools, apprenticeship and so on.
Once they decided what way they take, there is always the chance to switch school if the children realized it wasn't the right decision. This is also possible in Switzerland, but there is a huge difference between Switzerland and Finland; The children in Finland don't have to start from the beginning with everything, "the credits" are credited. In Switzerland you always start from the beginning, there are some exemptions but mostly you don't get any credits that are charged to one's account. Awesome, don't you think? As a student you are thankful for this, don't you think?! And it makes so sense!
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