How Finland became an education leader
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Here are a few points that could explain why they do better than others in PISA tests ......
- focus on teachers and not on domestic testing (only one out of every 10 people who apply to become teachers will ultimately make it to the classroom)
- teaching has become the most highly esteemed profession
- partnership between businesses, policy makers and educators
- not a memorization-based curriculum, but a thinking-based curriculum
- think about teachers as scientists and the classrooms are their laboratories
- professionalism as working more collaboratively (teachers stay at school after classes ...)
Read:
- David Sirota's (jul 2011) interview with Harward's Tony Wagner in Salon, How Finland became an education leader
- Wagner, Tony (2008). The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can Do About It, Basic Books. ISBN 0786731745
