What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
one thing we can all agree on that the united states need major educational reforms. The least it can do is take inspiration from the Scandinavian countries, particularly Finland. A lot has changed in the past decade, from being just the home to mobile phone giant Nokia it has come to know for a lot more.
The national education system of Finland is getting a lot more attention because Finnish students are making their mark around the world and are some of the top rankers in tests score around the world. Some of the credit to the success goes to the PISA Survey that compares and evaluates the students of a certain age around the world on criteria of reading, maths, and science. Fortunately for Finland, they have aced all three categories.
Lately, the Chinese are making their mark around the world and competing with the top scorers of Finland. As compared to these two countries, the united states children are scoring average in these criteria.
The basic reason behind the success of educational module is their main focus point which is learning things creatively. They give out lesser homework and engage kids in more on-campus activities. All this has brought more attention of the world to Finland's education system and delegations from all over the world fly over there to learn a thing or two from the education experts of Finland.
The basic principles that Finland education goes by is that they delegate authority to the teachers and pass on the responsibility to them. There are no set criteria to evaluate a teacher or a body to evaluate a teacher's performance, it is the responsibility of the head of the institution to evaluate and overcome the shortcomings of the teachers of his institution.
Moreover, they are way past taking tests and exams of their students, there is no concept of standardized exams or testing, each teacher evaluates the performance of their students independently throughout the year and students get report cards for their tests and are helped in overcoming their shortcomings and to increase their performances.
The basic criteria for the induction of teachers is a master's degree in the relevant field and a few teaching courses. moreover, the teachers are provided with decent pay and produce better results than the teachers worldwide.
The point to ponder is comparability, in Finland, there's no competition between the schools or teachers, there's no scorecards for schools or good or bad schools, choosing a school is never a point of consideration for parents in Finland because more or less every school provides the same quality of education as others.
The basic agenda of Finland's education system is to treat everyone equally, hence the concept of private schools is non-existent. Finland's education system provides the same learning opportunity to everyone irrespective of their family background, their source of income, or any other criteria which other countries use as a bifurcation for public and private sector schools.
Producing academic excellence was never a priority for Finland, all the wanted to do was promote a sense of equality in their nation and produce better human beings at the end of the day, alas, star performers in academics came as a by-product and has left the world to reconsider its education policies.
Education systems should never be about a horse race of who comes first or who scores more medals, it should always be to civilize people. In most developed nations the education sector has become a huge business, as they claim to provide better education they charge a hefty fee to the parents. While those who can afford private colleges enjoy the luxury others are indebted for their life just because they wanted a decent education.
In my point of view, students should always be treated equally irrespective of their backgrounds and schools or institutions should focus on developing better human beings for society and all the success will come along with it, because believe it or not we need a better education system and we can learn a few things from Finland's educational policy.
The basic reason behind the success of educational module is their main focus point which is learning things creatively. They give out lesser homework and engage kids in more on-campus activities. All this has brought more attention of the world to Finland's education system and delegations from all over the world fly over there to learn a thing or two from the education experts of Finland.
The basic principles that Finland education goes by is that they delegate authority to the teachers and pass on the responsibility to them. There are no set criteria to evaluate a teacher or a body to evaluate a teacher's performance, it is the responsibility of the head of the institution to evaluate and overcome the shortcomings of the teachers of his institution.
Moreover, they are way past taking tests and exams of their students, there is no concept of standardized exams or testing, each teacher evaluates the performance of their students independently throughout the year and students get report cards for their tests and are helped in overcoming their shortcomings and to increase their performances.
The basic criteria for the induction of teachers is a master's degree in the relevant field and a few teaching courses. moreover, the teachers are provided with decent pay and produce better results than the teachers worldwide.
The point to ponder is comparability, in Finland, there's no competition between the schools or teachers, there's no scorecards for schools or good or bad schools, choosing a school is never a point of consideration for parents in Finland because more or less every school provides the same quality of education as others.
The basic agenda of Finland's education system is to treat everyone equally, hence the concept of private schools is non-existent. Finland's education system provides the same learning opportunity to everyone irrespective of their family background, their source of income, or any other criteria which other countries use as a bifurcation for public and private sector schools.
Producing academic excellence was never a priority for Finland, all the wanted to do was promote a sense of equality in their nation and produce better human beings at the end of the day, alas, star performers in academics came as a by-product and has left the world to reconsider its education policies.
Education systems should never be about a horse race of who comes first or who scores more medals, it should always be to civilize people. In most developed nations the education sector has become a huge business, as they claim to provide better education they charge a hefty fee to the parents. While those who can afford private colleges enjoy the luxury others are indebted for their life just because they wanted a decent education.
In my point of view, students should always be treated equally irrespective of their backgrounds and schools or institutions should focus on developing better human beings for society and all the success will come along with it, because believe it or not we need a better education system and we can learn a few things from Finland's educational policy.
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