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Finland Education (K-12) Comprehensive School Tour
“Welcome to a country where students are stress-free with minimal exams and homework, teaching is a highly respected profession and kids start their school, not before the age of 7. Finland’s teachers have kept the nation near the top of the influential Pisa performance rankings since they were first published in 2001.
Let's try to uncover the layers of secrecy with hands-on experiences, interactions, and visits to the schools.”
Council for Creative Education (CCE) Finland is organizing a dedicated training cum workshop program on Finnish Education Model for International educators who are interested to know the secrets of the successful Finnish education system.
Who should attend?
The program is meant for school principals, management, administrators, educators, trainers & senior teachers who are looking for implementing changes for a better education.
Focus Areas
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To understand the Finnish education system and its working with practical examples and workshop by the Finnish ad international teachers / Educators
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Practical experience and class observations in Finnish Schools
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Interactions with teachers, principals, support staff
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Hands-on experience of various creative methods and activities as an actual Finnish classroom through workshops
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Phenomenon based learning and Enquiry based Projects
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How to use creatively ICT Tools in the classroom as a teacher
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Vocational Education and onsite visits in Finland
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State-of-art Teachers Education
Online Payment
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Tour Program (For April 2020 tour program is different, please refer the link https://www.ccefinland.org/7th-symposium)
NOTE:
Finland and CCE do not claim to show the best teachers, best schools or best teaching methods in this program, as in Finland, there is no selective approach. Education is learner-centered. The teachers do their best to make learning better. You will get to see what is actually happening in the classroom. We can not guarantee a school visit to a particular school as it is the school's decision if they want to take any visitors on a particular day.
The detailed schedule with time and options for school visits will be declared two weeks prior to the tour and will be sent to the confirmed registered participants.
CCE reserves the right to change the program depending on the batch size of the participants.
Faculty Profile
Kari Louhivuori
Head, Pedagogy Leadership at CCE Finland
Veteran teacher and ex-Principal of Kirkkojarvi School, Espoo who have been instrumental in developing Finnish learning experiences since the 1970s. Throughout his career, Kari strongly emphasized on the collaborative developments of schools and organic educational leadership. Kirkkojärvi School got a new building in 2010. Kari worked in close collaboration with Verstas Architects in the planning of the prize-winning school building. Before you meet Kari, just read an interesting article featuring him: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/why-are-finlands-schools-successful-49859555/
Currently, Kari consults schools, universities, and educators across the globe as CCE's pedagogical coach.
Heramb Kulkarni
Head, ICT Development, and Strategy - CCE Finland
Speaker and trainer on EduTech, collaborative learning, and innovation across 12 countries. Trained more than 14000+ teachers, Educators, leaders on strategy and ICT innovations Research. Heramb consults many governments and large organizations across 3 continents, Europe, Asia and Africa within key countries like Denmark, USA, Bahrain and Indian states like Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra. His research areas are educational technology and creativity, global education reforms and collaborative innovations. As an educator, social entrepreneur and technology wizard, he is on the advisory board of many educational institutes and innovative start-ups across Europe and India. He has held leadership positions across large MNCs like Nokia, Lucent Technologies, Skyworks and Accenture with vast experience in technology, architecture and software development domain.
Marja Suurla
Director at CCE Finland
International trainer and researcher for Education and learning through paintings. She has been visiting different countries to make teachers aware of the teaching through drawing and painting, mainly the form painting. Follows Waldorf pedagogy and teacher from Steiner School, Tampere. She is an expert teacher of arts and paintings for 30+ years and has participated in many international exhibitions with her students.
Shirin Kulkarni
Research Director at CCE Finland
Researcher in the field of Creative Thinking and education for more than 12 years. Research Areas:
Creativity and School Environment
A comparative study between India and Finland
CII (Creativity-identity Interaction) model
Narrative teaching techniques
Experienced trainer and psychologist
Research Director, CCE Finland
Bora Nam
Project Manager, CCE Finland
Bora is an education expert specialized in the East Asian market with broad knowledge in general education, media education, and education exports. She is completing a master’s degree in digital literacy education in Tampere University and also works as a student ambassador for international audience. Bora’s interests include Edutech, learning environment, and school development. She has published several articles about the Finnish education system in Korean educational magazine (Miznaeil). In addition, she manages her own YouTube channel “Finbora”, to share her perspective and opinions about Finnish society and culture.
Martti Hellström
Doctor of Education
Master of Philosophy(1982) and PhD (Doctor of Education) 2004, Martti Hellström is a well-known Trainer of teachers and headmasters for over 4 decades. Martti has been active as a Classteacher since 1977 and then he became Headmaster at Aurora Elementary School. He was the Editor in Chief at Luokanopettaja-professional newsletter 1994-2013
Since 2018, Martti is a Lecturer of Education at the University of Helsinki
Miia Bergman
Vice Principal at Ylöjärven lukio
Miia Bergman is a Vice-Principal and teacher of mathematics, chemistry, and ICT at Ylöjärven lukio, Tampere.
Earlier she was heading the Rudolf Steiner School as a Principal. She has graduated as Master of Science in Engineering at the Tampere University of Technology. She has also worked as a member of the national board of the Waldorf education in Finland since 2016. Her work has included developing the school's organizational as well as pedagogical issues following the trends of modern times. So nowadays she is specialized not only in teaching mathematics but also, in general, the operation of the second level in Finland.
Registration form
Before making the payment, kindly fill the registration form. Filling up a registration form is the first mandatory step to reserve your seat for the tour.
FAQ
1. What is the difference between education tour and symposium arranged by CCE?
The Finland education tour focuses on the Finnish education model and specially designed to make the participants aware of as many aspects of Finnish education system as possible. The symposium is generally for 4 or 5 days, out of which first two days are dedicated to the Finnish education model and last two days are reserved for the international paper presentations on creativity in education. So there is more scope for discussion on creative education. One can listen to various studies going on in different parts of the world about creativity.
2. Where do we start from?
All participants are required to CHECK IN on Sunday evening at Tampere hotel.The travel from Helsinki to Tampere on Sunday is not covered in the tour fee.
3. Where will we be staying in Finland?
The participants shall be accommodated in popular hotels in Helsinki and Tampere. Hotels in the range of 100 to 120 Euro per night (breakfast included), are being considered. All hotels are 4 Stars category.
4.What is the duration of this delegation?
The delegation shall consist of 7 days and 6 nights at Finland From 24 September onwards it will be 6 days & 5 nights). Of these, 5 days shall be for official visits to schools and other institutions and workshops. Participants will be free to explore Helsinki, Tampere and other places of interest nearby during free time.
5.Does the fee include payment for meals too?
Breakfasts are included in the hotel charges. Lunches and snacks will be served on all 5 days of official visits. Dinners are not provided so that the participants can explore the local cuisine.
7.What about visa processing?
CCE will send the necessary documents to the participants like invitation letters but the participants need to arrange their own visa.
8.What if I confirm and drop out? Will I be given a refund of the fee?
Refunds are subject to the cancellation policies of the travel agency and the hotel partners. The refund policy is as follows: a. Less than 30 days prior to the trip - No refund under any circumstances (e.g. rejection of visa) b. Less than 90 days but more than 30 days - 50% of the cost will be refunded
. More than 90 days to trip - 80% of the cost will be refunded
9.What are some of the key dates?
Last date for sending the registration form and paying full delegation fee - 1 month before tour starts
Last date for sending all the documents for Visa and Ticketing - 1 month before tour starts
* Schengen Visa may take a longer to complete the process - upto 30 working days. Hence, in case of delay in submitting the Visa documents, we will not be able to assure a confirmed visa. Since, th