Learning to Teach in Practice: Finland's Teacher Training Schools

[Music] at a practice school our task is to combine theory and practice the main truth is our teaching the children and training student teachers it's kind of an adventure every day when Finland was entering the 1970s we had a we had a school system that was dividing pupils students in a two different pathways and we thought that this is not the best way to provide a good education for all of our children in a small nation like Finland intelligence yes we decided to do those pathways away and have instead at one comprehensive or unified nine-year compulsory education a school system and a clear understanding very soon was that if we want this new system to work we need to have different type of teachers the proposal was that primary school teachers should be educated in our research universities and each of these research universities they also run what we call teacher training schools for me a practice school is a place where I can I can try my skills in teaching in a safe atmosphere and I can trust that no one is judging me or anything and I think this is a really safe environment to try try your teaching because I haven't really done any work with like 8 year old kids before from community perspective a practice school gives basic education from kindergarten to grade 12 yonder Berlin Angola is terephthalate obese gala the more than zero most across the practice school is also part it's one unit of University of Helsinki and as such it is the place that houses teacher training all future teachers who study at the University of Helsinki also do their practice here clinical practical training for the primary school teachers is about 15 to 20 percent out of the entire party or decree I'm doing this practice with my fellow student Lena and we do everything together for no less than regarding we are now teaching the second grades and they are doing newspaper there is a pair of students and a supervising teacher some of them have not taught anything in their lives and they have their memories from their own school time here they meet maybe for the first time there are pupils I think they begin to realize how important it is to know every single one of them and to know their capabilities and how each pupil learns Finland can rely so much on kind of a teacher and school made assessments and tests rather than standardized assessments because of the teachers most of the teachers know their pupils and students very well during the lesson I make notes and then I tell them what I saw and what I heard Danny's novelistic isn't our beloved I repeat again I think my main duty is as I do with the children to empower them to help them find out where they are put together our task is to try to conceptualize the things what happens happened during the lessons and combine theory and practice you can't become a teacher just through reading it's not something you do by the book it's something you have to learn through doing a piece can laugh now pastelito is it needed editor cranky polymerase mr. Takei you wrote some news text with the children how do you feel I think it went pretty well most of the students found their subject pretty soon some of them had little difficulties but I think all in all it was okay yeah I think it's a question of time if you had had more time but but I think really in this time some of them didn't quite been captured yeah there was a little bit difficulty and I I don't really know how how we could do it or how we could have done it what was the greatest success in this listen last time when we talked you were talking about trust between Atum and we did the students know that we trust on them you know yeah that's why Oh so if I try to develop it and yeah I want a task is hard they don't give up the FBI NSA they know that we have faith on that I use a gel to almost kill a sign of trust too because if they didn't trust you they wouldn't ask and yeah and they wouldn't try I think we have succeeded one of the most important features is the collaboration between the university researchers people like me the teachers who supervise the students here plus the students it's this multi professional collaboration that is in the heart of the practice this connection this link between the teacher training school and the university is extremely critical in terms of making sure that there's a connection between the theory and the practice at the level of school you had 50 when you were two teachers what about if you were alone in the class and the same kind of so next time I would use more time on reading yes and then the articles yeah yeah and then I would probably do the writing on half half correct yeah yeah plus our ammonia yeah because we're in tears orange yes you gotta make a discus yeah so these decisions change the interactional setting and I think romantically yeah because when they do it in pairs they discuss with each other so it when we see that there's something to fix or something that there's some problem or something like that then we can when they learn yeah and they they say them out loud so first you think of something and then when love then you actually realize was it a good idea within not and should I say some other way or fundraising as for a teacher when you listen to the full writing you can get lots of information oh I can tell you're dealing way so I think that's a good thing when practicing writing my job in training school is different from the regular school because I have the student teachers so when they come to a practice school they observe the lessons or the supervising teacher yes okay Serco she's a great teacher and I really like to see her doing her work just by observing what she's doing I can learn a lot she's really calm when she's teaching and she's using her voice really well mr. Feldon doesn't allow service animals are non-lethal acoustics or severe the binocular surco just has a really good touch on the students a mitten or the poly so yeah Boop - on par with our more sanguine shanku inventory optimization try new Chinese name is my honey your attitude gun is a home here Amalia Dylan esta por dostana Guha repellant own elevation said so in this is Tobin a boring potentially yes if that second own Ella a NASA mr. t hey Micah I have learned from surco that to get a silent class you don't have to force taking the authority you can just be you only sometimes Jericho shows a picture of her dog to get the children to focus on something and you can have very very different styles on getting them quiet you can just be quiet or you can I don't know start whispering [Music] it's a sacrilege to undermine our main duty is to give education to the pupils and then our second very important duty is to train the student teachers and then we take part in the newest research in the finished system the decree that leads to teaching is a research-based master's degree this research aspect comes in a day one when the students start to kind of explore their own understanding of what it is to be a teacher and what the learning means and how teaching and learning are related to to one another the further you go in your studies in Finland the deeper you go also in terms of the theory and research in the in the end of the day Alinea began employment others with the goal of the system like a low caste yeah you know you mentioned that some element of me being a part of a university gives us many relationships to other universities nationally and abroad and that also gives possibilities to develop teaching and develop new methods and taking part of the research for instance I have been co-working with my colleague in the university and we have been developing some new methods of creative writing and we just published a book together [Music] having this practice school is very very important I am now more confident with my teaching I can challenge my own pedagogical thinking what is possible it's so refreshing to plan with the students and have new ideas from them you learn every day from them in in Finland vast majority of those who are accepted to teacher training programs they will stay until the end of their careers it's been so great day that I don't even know how to reflect it because it just been so exciting and so it's really meaningful place to me to have my first teaching experience [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Keywords: International Teacher, Finland, educational policy, teacher training, Vikki, University of Helsinki, Stanford University

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Length: 13min 37sec (817 seconds)

Published: Wed May 17 2017