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 distance teaching methods on time at critical turning point of Read more…
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 Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics, is a rising star amongst Read more…
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 and geography lessons. During the grades 7-9 students will learn Read more…
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 classroom. One class, and only one teacher. If we are Read more…
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 their own mother tongue at school. Using the mother tongue Read more…
Many teachers find it challenging to teach a group with a lot of students. They think that activating students in large groups is difficult and the number of teaching methods is limited. Many teachers see traditional lecturing, teacher talking – students listening, as the only possible teaching method for a Read more…
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…
Learning Scoop has established Finland Education Shop to provide an online marketplace where teachers and schools around the world can find quality educational products from Finland. LessonApp is happy to be part of the catalog! The ultimate goal was to help teachers and schools: to provide them with a place Read more…
These lessons continue the same theme the 15th and 16th lessons for 2020 started. 3. lesson (45 min) New knowledge acquisitionMethod used: Build-up group (45 min) The students process the new information and draw conclusions from new knowledge. Students form groups of four and they compare what they know about Read more…
Phenomenon-based learning is a part of Finland’s latest national core curricula for education of all levels from early childhood to upper secondary education (K-12), including basic education. The goal of phenomenon-based learning is for students to explore various real-life phenomena from different perspectives. Phenomenon-based learning is particularly well suited to Read more…
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