a valuable tool for the 21st century skills Learning in the Finnish high school has previously had a strong focus on the individual student and the Matriculation Examination. Learning and teaching both, have been lonely jobs. Today, there is a change towards more collaborative methods. In the autumn 2016 schools in Finland started to work …
Phenomenon Based Learning
Phenomenon Based learning (PhenoBL) was introduced in the Finnish Core Curriculum 2014. It is a form of webbed integration and thematic teaching. Different topics are studied from an interdisciplinary perspective. One could also argue that it is one type of a Content Based Instruction (CBI) model or Problem Based learning (PBL) or Inquiry learning. The …
Why collaboration?
This site started last fall as a Fulbright project and my focus then was teacher collaboration, hence the name! I'm a great believer in collaboration of all sorts. The reason we need teacher collaboration is to give the students quality education and working together as a team ensures just that. At the same time we …
