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
Activating
Free webinar: How to Activate Your Students
Free webinar: How to Motivate Your Students We are running a series of webinars once a month. Join our upcoming webinar, “How to Activate Your Students,” on Tuesday, November 26th at 1:00 PM GMT. How can you support students who Read more…
Uncategorized
Dare to Learn conference in Bucharest, Romania
We had a privilege to participate in the Dare to Learn conference in Bucharest, Romania last week. Our pedagogical director Johanna Järvinen-Taubert was invited to attend a panel discussing the future of education and the role of technology in it. Read more…
Distance teaching
Designing lessons with LessonApp: Chinese lesson in distance teaching
Author: Gracie Meng-Pitkänen, worked as a Chinese teacher in Finland and China I practiced distance teaching for several months with my small group of students during the Covid-19 pandemic. Overall, the outcome was very positive. Thanks to LessonApp which provides Read more…
Activating
Free webinar: How to Motivate Your Students
Free webinar: How to Motivate Your Students We are running a series of webinars once a month. Join our upcoming webinar, “How to Motivate Your Students,” on Tuesday, October 22nd at 1:00 PM GMT. According to research, students’ motivation is Read more…
Activating
STEAM – a way to do and enable cross-curriculum work
Author: Jukka Miettunen, Principal, Yli-Ii comperehensive school (grades K–9), Oulu, Finland I work as the Principal of the Yli-Ii Comprehensive School in the City of Oulu. Our school has put a lot of effort into STEAM. STEAM, which means Science Read more…
pedagogy
Free webinar: Cornerstones of Finnish Education
Free webinar: Cornerstones of Finnish Education We are running a series of webinars once a month. We will start by the topic Cornerstones of Finnish Education on Thursday, 26th September at 1:00 PM GMT. Our pedagogical director Johanna Järvinen-Taubert will Read more…
Lesson planning
Designing a lesson with LessonApp: What is sound (7th grade physics)
Learning physics helps us to understand the world around us. In Finnish curriculum, physics as its own subject starts in lower secondary school when students are 13 years old. Before that physical phenomena have been studied in environmental science, biology Read more…
Teaching
What is co-teaching?
Working as a teacher can be a lonely job. Even though you have colleagues: you have common coffee breaks with them, plan your lessons together, have discussions or even do assessments together — nevertheless, a teacher is alone in the Read more…
LessonApp
Designing lessons with LessonApp: Mother tongue lesson for Primary school
UNESCO report states that about 40% of the global population does not have access to education in the language they speak or understand. Studies have shown that there are many benefits why students should have a right to study using Read more…
