Transforming Finnish Education: Insights from CEO Ari Pokka
Embracing a visionary mindset, Finnish Education Institute's CEO, Ari Pokka, compares a principal to a bandleader of a jazz band, highlighting the importance of bringing forth fundamental themes. The narrative delves into crucial aspects such as student stories, challenges to overcome, Finnish responses, wellbeing trends, transversal competences, and the essence of participation and ownership in school culture.
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Leading a change some Finnish remarks Ari Pokka CEO Finnish Education Institute
Motto I have often thought that a principal is like a bandleader of a jazz band. I have a group of ingenious musicians on stage, each of whom can perform fine, unique solos. Still, the lure and enchantment of the music is not in the elaborate solos alone, but in the way the bandleader manages to bring forth the fundamental theme of the music. The theme is present in everything, even in the most mind-blowing improvisation, and it is always returned to. (Ari Pokka; Top Class-Finnish school leadership and management)
Stories told by our children are these stories of your school? Data and new competences Media and right to inclusion Globalization and unlimited labour market Environmental changes and sustainability An era of values Life during Pandemic T m kuva, tekij Tuntematon tekij , k ytt oikeus: CC BY-SA
What should we leave out? Political hipsters, which, like weathervanes, follow trends Centralization Powerless and indirect leadership Unilateral assessment and knowledge base learning contents Only teacher-led classroom working The role of the student as a recipient of information only
How we Finns are answering in these challenges?
Wellbeing main trend in Finnish school culture High school education strengthens the student's physical, mental and social well-being and provides the ability to maintain them at different stages of life.
Transversal competences Thinking and learning to learn ICT cmpetences Self-care and everyday life Multiliteracy Cultural competence, interaction and expression Working life skills and entrepreneurship Participating, influencing and building sustainable future
Participating and ownership Everybody in the school need to be heard and noticed Modern pedagogy is collaborative, there must be trustful connection betweeb teachers and students Activate your students voices from early begining there are not such an age, when somebodys opinion coming complete.
Evaluation is the strongest tool Assessment is a more effective force for change than the curriculum. A change in assessment methods affects students work more quickly and deeply than a change in the curriculum. Assessment of learning outcomes = summative assessment Assessment for learning = formative assessment Robert Stake: when the chef tastes the soup, it is a formative assessment, when the customer eats it, it is a summative assessment
