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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
Author: Johanna Järvinen Taubert In the Finnish general upper secondary school (high school) curriculum, philosophy is one of the mandatory subjects. Philosophy is not only seen as part of the shared, cultural knowledge everyone should have an understanding of, but also a way to develop much needed thinking skills. Studying Read more…
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.
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…
“When teachers are experiencing wellbeing in their work, the whole school has the opportunity to thrive.” – Reetta Yrttiaho and Susanna Posio 2021
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…
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