Building blocks
Designing lessons with LessonApp: Three states of water (for 5th graders)
This lesson about these three stages of water has been designed for G5 students and will be delivered before the lesson about the water circle.
Collaboration
How can we promote the wellbeing of teachers?
“When teachers are experiencing wellbeing in their work, the whole school has the opportunity to thrive.” – Reetta Yrttiaho and Susanna Posio 2021
LessonApp
Self-assessment as a tool for teacher’s professional development
Our ultimate goal with LessonApp is to empower teachers, the change-makers. If we want to lift the quality of teaching and strengthen the teaching profession, we need to equip teachers with knowledge, skills and understanding to constantly develop their own work. Therefore, we are persistently seeking new ways to help Read more…
Distance teaching
How to promote learning in distance teaching?
Teachers around the world have been struggling with distance teaching. During the pandemic, many of us were thrown to deliver our classes distantly without proper preparation or training for it. Many teachers were deeply concerned how much students were actually learning when studying remotely. They were asking: “How to really Read more…
Activating
How to deliver engaging lessons?
“I know what I should do, but I don’t have time…” When it comes to planning engaging lessons, this is a shared feeling among many teachers, despite the country. Teachers are often aware of the different aspects that should be considered when delivering engaging and effective lessons, but they are Read more…
Education
Empowering teachers
In the beginning, we were the bunch of people with the desire to help teachers of the world to design pedagogically better, inspiring and effective lessons. But how to do that? From the early on, we agreed that we wanted to equip the teachers with tools, so that they themselves Read more…
Education
Designing quality lessons
Designing quality lessons is in the very core of teacher training in Finland. During Finnish teacher training teacher students are taught different options and possibilities to design lessons in a pedagogically productive way. During their studies teacher students plan several lessons themselves and get feedback of their lesson plans. After Read more…
Education
LessonApp version 2 is here!
We’re excited to announce that LessonApp version 2 has been released! The first version of LessonApp started development a long time ago, and we have received a lot of feedback and suggestions during this time. Instead of trying to patch the shortcomings of our initial app, we decided to put Read more…
Education
LessonApp version 2 is coming!
We’re excited to announce big news about LessonApp! We started building LessonApp early on our journey, and we have received a lot of feedback and suggestions during this time. Instead of trying to patch the shortcomings of our initial app, we decided to put the lessons learned in practice, and Read more…
Pedagogy first
Pedagogy first, technology second during the era of distance teaching 2/2
This is the second part of blog post series “Pedagogy first, technology second during the era of distance teaching”. Please read the first part here. The ultimate goal of teaching is to promote learning. Many principles equally apply to learning in classroom and in distance teaching. The key question is: Read more…
