Finnish training system. How the best schools are arranged in the world. Walker T.

When the school education system in Finland was recognized as the best according to the results of the Pisa test, teachers from around the world began to study the experience of Finnish colleagues, trying to understand what their secret is. The American teacher Timothy Walker, who worked for two years as a teacher at the Helsinki school, claims that all the achievements of Finnish schoolchildren are based on a simple principle: the educational process should bring joy. A short academic day, a minimum of homework and testing is only external components of successful training.

In his book, Walker tells how the Finnish learning system works, why it is important to discuss with students their assessment, how to provide students with choice and joint planning They will help them become more independent why the abundance of visual materials on the walls leads to a decrease in performance and why the teacher needs to play with children at breaks. He offers 33 strategies that can be applied in our Russian, schools.