They read jokes, poems, books, and probably riddles... real world in the classrooms. I wish my dear country Mexico could do something like this... kind of difficult nowadays... Good job teachers for your great work in education.
It's really good way to develop child's reading, writing and interaction skills, here in India its lil different but again every school don't have this type of reading or writing activities but I will surely try this at home with my kids, because I believe literacy is very important part of education system. Thank you. Good job teacher.
But it’s Not the same in England, kids are told what to write, what words to use, how to start sentences in the uk. Even in art you get shown what to paint, which colours are best to use, there is no creativity involved, and hence the literacy cannot be compared to that in Finland because it’s only when you think For yourself that language starts to develop and matter to you as a student
I was trained to teach in the UK, although I have always taught abroad, but I think teachers are on the cutting edge when it comes to the methods and approaches they employ. What the Finnish teacher in this video said which I think sums the problem up, is the value placed on education within a culture, and the effectiveness of the wellbeing programs which are in place. All the nordic countries view teachers as being on the same level as doctors, or successful business people. In the UK it's kind of embarrassing to admit that you are a teacher - it's the bottom rung of the professions. I think they do teach at the highest level in Finland, but they do in the UK too. I just wish they'd cut the bureaucracy - burnout rates are insane among teachers in the UK. This neglect of teachers wellbeing also plays a part, in my opinion.
@@simonhargreaves5123 I agree with you. I was a teacher in America, and unfortunately, our culture shows no respect for the teachers. In fact, they are often treated as the scapegoats for society's problems.
@@sharonrinkiewicz3940 So I have heard... It's very sad, and look at the state of things at the moment. Countries with a widening poverty gap generally seem to devalue education. I also think how teachers are paid in different countries speaks volumes about the value placed on education. The UK and USA are particularly bad in comparison to the rest of the developed world. I stared out in Germany on the salary a teacher in the UK would get after about 10 years of teaching! And In Australia starting salary is the same as someone who is almost at the top of the UK pay scale...
I live in England for over 7 years and Finnish education is not similar to English education at all. The teacher mentioned student welfare. When your emotional wellbeing and finances are not well your studies will suffer even if you the best student in the class even in the all school.
Education isn't looked as an institution, but as an extension of their community. Educators will say the classroom is a microcosm of our countries or townships, but here it truly is. I'm going to visit, not to visit the schools, but their cities. It takes a village to raise a child.
Not when Americans prefer decentralization of power, and if they can conceive of the political will that each (public) schools should be equal in prosperity and access, by then maybe things would turn up in the US. Maybe the US would bring the standards up by requiring more from lower-education teachers as well as increasing teacher pay for them to, uhh, live off of. And that the US could tone down the stress of standardized testing and thinking that we should learn as much as possible in as little time as humanly conceivable. But as long as people think that we should have more choices and that the government should back off, none of that is ever happening.
@@gian3458 First thing we have to do is change the way schools get their funding. Since our education is based largely on property taxes, it is no surprise that schools located in the poorest neighborhoods have the least resources. Next, and I think this is crucial, though controversial, so hear me out. Finland outlawed charging tuition in their schools. All schools are funded according to need. Here in the US, rich students go to outrageously expensive private schools, whose students are handpicked. Imagine if we, too, did away with private schools. Rich students would be forced to attend school with their not so affluent peers. The kids grow up together, become friends. You can bet your sweet ass the rich parents would demand top of the line resources in the public schools. As a result, we would level the playing field so to speak.
As a Finn I'd guess the literacy scores are multilateral, and culturally bound. Not just school bound. First, our language is kind of systematic, so spoken language comes early to children. Second, our written language is more or less phonemically spelled, so easy to learn at a young age as well. Just a night ago I learned that my long time girlfriend/common law wife already, had actually composed a little bit of a written tale, before her parents even knew she could read. That would never happen in an English speaker, that much of a mess its orthography really is. Third, us Finns basically just dropped out of the tree. We're an *extremely* young culture as a whole, which has had to contend with the pressure from two much more highly and more early civilizations on our borders. Even oppresssion. So that education, in order "to rise to the level" of them, even two centuries ago, became a "Thing", and remains so. The huge public investment into education, with every educator required to at the *least* complete a master's degree in most of what se's going to be advising on, plus at least a separate bacherlor's in pedagogy/didactics, comes from there: a nationwise strategic of competing them better developed, older nations out of our business. And then fourth, the private side of the fennomania, as they call it: as long as Finland as existed, thanks to the political movement of fennomania, our peculiar language has been at the *center* of it. And now that it's as entrenched as it is, well, everybody and every home around is just proud to have their children understand, articulate, read, and write, precisely The Mother Tongue. The three most momentous and life-defining events for me as a child were, in order, first, when at about age 6-7a I asked my dad for a book, and he gave me one as a gift. It was the ultimate gift for me, and so my eagerness to go through it was to dad. Second, at about 10-12a they waved at the Lahti public library, just for me, the - stupid-idiotic-fuckall - idea of a distinction between children's and adults' books. So that I could finally learn at my own pace. Third, quite soon after, at something like 13-14a, I finally cut out pretty much every other hobby from my life. Especially PE, but piano and later even oboe lessons. I told my mother: "mommy, I don't want to do this anymore, I want to *read*". And then that was it; she was taken aback a bit, but... In Finland, once your firstborn says, with panache, he just wants to read, you let him. What you maybe recoil at isn't that he's going to be a reader, but at the idea that he really, finally, got there. (Coda, I don't do too well. I'm a long term alcoholic, and there're some mental health issues to boot. But I can tell you, that's because of something else than faulty parental guidance, or what our school system or our national identity did, wrong. Because I *do* possess a wide-ranging education, which I've continued to widen and deepen well into my middle age. Because of how I lightly I was treated in my formative, early years; how I was gently let my take my own path. Fuck, I can do graduate level math, I can compose techno, I can sometimes do croquis on a pencil, I know how trees work so that I could in principle tend a bonsai, I write Finnish at a level my highschool teacher fucked up at already, I could teach kids all of physics, chemistry and cryptography by example, and yes, even by first touch, I really knew where the clitoris is. I know Western political history from the ground up, and economics which goes with it. In fact everybody who knows me agrees I'm basically a walking library, able to almost always answer even the most intricate "why" of a small child. I'm something else. If not a *unique* product of the Finnish society and education system, then at least something not produced by the Anglo-Saxon one in general. Even in Australia or New Zealand, as them fugitive colonies. Or them Scotts. ;) )
At 10:00 lady from Britain says they are doing everything like Finland but results are not as good as Finland. Somehow I doubt it. Even the manner in which the woman from Britain makes the claim, is unconvincing, and I wonder about this entire observation exercise by the British visitor. Somehow it lacks credibility.
see thats the thing right. children should be the focus but the teachers are doing most of the work. the teacher solves problems for you. the teacher writes down things and explains all for you. the teachers does all the thinking for you and you have all the steps to solve all the problems that its easy but its hard to digest and rationalize why they are doing it and there are far more things that concern kids than to work on their k12 problems and sustain their work ethic. not that children should teach how it should be done. the only thing the teacher should do is follow the structure of the process and see they do not stray from it but leave the process to get there to the kids. Give them incentives and ideas to lead them to solve each problems. it would take time but a standardized test can only help solve half of the problems. standardized tests are good but there are hardly any creative work and trust in kids to leave them to think for themselves as well as show them how thinking and making mistakes and creating their own language and concepts to solve these problems and brainstorming helps them get personal with the already structured concepts and language in a given subject. But no thats too much of a hassle and a philosophical puzzlefest to give these kids a lesson about.
@@realityobserver7521 true. But it gets overwhelming as the mother strives to handle all subjects. I have a friend who decided to homeschool, so I know her disadvantages too.
Very nice techniques of teaching ,I am teacher in India ,I will use this techniques in my class .which activities more helpful to students to improve there english reading skills ? Please .Reply
@@vk-dk9xd The best and longest day. The older they get the less hours they go to school. High school has the least hours even IB. Hence parents prefer to work extra kids are free and safe. At age 7 kids take public transport to school or bile or walk or ski. they come home alone. They have cell phone, keys and a credit card so they can even go buy food on their own. Parents come home at 18.00 and ask hi how was your day and prepare family meal
Now, I want to read their story and stories written by Finnish authors. At school in 2008, we used to create our own version for the Little Red Riding Hood. Mine is bland, full of dialogue and no spice.
Quiet classrooms in public Australian schools...well...there should be a discussion about this... I can tell you that there is no place for a quiet classroom environment as long as the state is pumping up and opening, what they consider to be a "modern classroom" = open layout classrooms! Noise and disruptions from all sides... University students would benefit from these layouts, not primary students and especially not students with special needs and with sensitivities to noise and other sensory stimulation *(unavoidable in these types of classrooms).
In Finland and other Skandinavian countries, a teacher of primary levels has high social status, is quite well paid, has a master's degree, and holds a much sought after job with thousands of applicants for the training schools and few accepted.
I went to American schools. Before I was 10 years old, I read gone with the Wind on my own. Stop comparing education systems with all kinds of mixed variables to one another. It is just as pointless and destructive as comparing yourself to other people.
children learned by doing...this is the secret behind education succes in Finland..i'd like to see this technique happen in my country....
They read jokes, poems, books, and probably riddles... real world in the classrooms. I wish my dear country Mexico could do something like this... kind of difficult nowadays... Good job teachers for your great work in education.
Johanna is the best teacher, because she is my teacher.
May God bless you Ms Johanna, your students love you... You are a blessing to them..
It's really good way to develop child's reading, writing and interaction skills, here in India its lil different but again every school don't have this type of reading or writing activities but I will surely try this at home with my kids, because I believe literacy is very important part of education system. Thank you. Good job teacher.
But it’s Not the same in England, kids are told what to write, what words to use, how to start sentences in the uk. Even in art you get shown what to paint, which colours are best to use, there is no creativity involved, and hence the literacy cannot be compared to that in Finland because it’s only when you think For yourself that language starts to develop and matter to you as a student
And they certainly don't care about their mental health , it's all about control and putting them in boxes
I was trained to teach in the UK, although I have always taught abroad, but I think teachers are on the cutting edge when it comes to the methods and approaches they employ. What the Finnish teacher in this video said which I think sums the problem up, is the value placed on education within a culture, and the effectiveness of the wellbeing programs which are in place. All the nordic countries view teachers as being on the same level as doctors, or successful business people. In the UK it's kind of embarrassing to admit that you are a teacher - it's the bottom rung of the professions. I think they do teach at the highest level in Finland, but they do in the UK too. I just wish they'd cut the bureaucracy - burnout rates are insane among teachers in the UK. This neglect of teachers wellbeing also plays a part, in my opinion.
@@simonhargreaves5123 I agree with you. I was a teacher in America, and unfortunately, our culture shows no respect for the teachers. In fact, they are often treated as the scapegoats for society's problems.
@@sharonrinkiewicz3940 So I have heard... It's very sad, and look at the state of things at the moment. Countries with a widening poverty gap generally seem to devalue education. I also think how teachers are paid in different countries speaks volumes about the value placed on education. The UK and USA are particularly bad in comparison to the rest of the developed world. I stared out in Germany on the salary a teacher in the UK would get after about 10 years of teaching! And In Australia starting salary is the same as someone who is almost at the top of the UK pay scale...
i shudder at my own nation, your ex colony, trinidad and tobago.
Nice example. wish I had gone to such schools!
me too.
I live in England for over 7 years and Finnish education is not similar to English education at all. The teacher mentioned student welfare. When your emotional wellbeing and finances are not well your studies will suffer even if you the best student in the class even in the all school.
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Education isn't looked as an institution, but as an extension of their community. Educators will say the classroom is a microcosm of our countries or townships, but here it truly is. I'm going to visit, not to visit the schools, but their cities. It takes a village to raise a child.
I'd love to see this happen here in America.
Sharon Rinkiewicz
never
Not when Americans prefer decentralization of power, and if they can conceive of the political will that each (public) schools should be equal in prosperity and access, by then maybe things would turn up in the US. Maybe the US would bring the standards up by requiring more from lower-education teachers as well as increasing teacher pay for them to, uhh, live off of. And that the US could tone down the stress of standardized testing and thinking that we should learn as much as possible in as little time as humanly conceivable. But as long as people think that we should have more choices and that the government should back off, none of that is ever happening.
@@gian3458 First thing we have to do is change the way schools get their funding. Since our education is based largely on property taxes, it is no surprise that schools located in the poorest neighborhoods have the least resources. Next, and I think this is crucial, though controversial, so hear me out. Finland outlawed charging tuition in their schools. All schools are funded according to need. Here in the US, rich students go to outrageously expensive private schools, whose students are handpicked. Imagine if we, too, did away with private schools. Rich students would be forced to attend school with their not so affluent peers. The kids grow up together, become friends. You can bet your sweet ass the rich parents would demand top of the line resources in the public schools. As a result, we would level the playing field so to speak.
This is really awesome teaching and learning process.
I really appreciate it.
Learn by doing.
This is a wonderful system
We love Finland the reasons their Education School 🏫 system.Thanks
Creative and beautiful work. Thank you for sharing it. I think we can learn to use these tips in the guided reading
Amazing!
I finally found the system i have been looking and searching for..
"Sana all" 😊🙏
As a Finn I'd guess the literacy scores are multilateral, and culturally bound. Not just school bound.
First, our language is kind of systematic, so spoken language comes early to children.
Second, our written language is more or less phonemically spelled, so easy to learn at a young age as well. Just a night ago I learned that my long time girlfriend/common law wife already, had actually composed a little bit of a written tale, before her parents even knew she could read. That would never happen in an English speaker, that much of a mess its orthography really is.
Third, us Finns basically just dropped out of the tree. We're an *extremely* young culture as a whole, which has had to contend with the pressure from two much more highly and more early civilizations on our borders. Even oppresssion. So that education, in order "to rise to the level" of them, even two centuries ago, became a "Thing", and remains so. The huge public investment into education, with every educator required to at the *least* complete a master's degree in most of what se's going to be advising on, plus at least a separate bacherlor's in pedagogy/didactics, comes from there: a nationwise strategic of competing them better developed, older nations out of our business.
And then fourth, the private side of the fennomania, as they call it: as long as Finland as existed, thanks to the political movement of fennomania, our peculiar language has been at the *center* of it. And now that it's as entrenched as it is, well, everybody and every home around is just proud to have their children understand, articulate, read, and write, precisely The Mother Tongue.
The three most momentous and life-defining events for me as a child were, in order, first, when at about age 6-7a I asked my dad for a book, and he gave me one as a gift. It was the ultimate gift for me, and so my eagerness to go through it was to dad.
Second, at about 10-12a they waved at the Lahti public library, just for me, the - stupid-idiotic-fuckall - idea of a distinction between children's and adults' books. So that I could finally learn at my own pace.
Third, quite soon after, at something like 13-14a, I finally cut out pretty much every other hobby from my life. Especially PE, but piano and later even oboe lessons. I told my mother: "mommy, I don't want to do this anymore, I want to *read*". And then that was it; she was taken aback a bit, but...
In Finland, once your firstborn says, with panache, he just wants to read, you let him. What you maybe recoil at isn't that he's going to be a reader, but at the idea that he really, finally, got there.
(Coda, I don't do too well. I'm a long term alcoholic, and there're some mental health issues to boot.
But I can tell you, that's because of something else than faulty parental guidance, or what our school system or our national identity did, wrong. Because I *do* possess a wide-ranging education, which I've continued to widen and deepen well into my middle age. Because of how I lightly I was treated in my formative, early years; how I was gently let my take my own path.
Fuck, I can do graduate level math, I can compose techno, I can sometimes do croquis on a pencil, I know how trees work so that I could in principle tend a bonsai, I write Finnish at a level my highschool teacher fucked up at already, I could teach kids all of physics, chemistry and cryptography by example, and yes, even by first touch, I really knew where the clitoris is. I know Western political history from the ground up, and economics which goes with it. In fact everybody who knows me agrees I'm basically a walking library, able to almost always answer even the most intricate "why" of a small child.
I'm something else. If not a *unique* product of the Finnish society and education system, then at least something not produced by the Anglo-Saxon one in general. Even in Australia or New Zealand, as them fugitive colonies. Or them Scotts. ;) )
This is why we homeschooled - in New Zealand.
At 10:00 lady from Britain says they are doing everything like Finland but results are not as good as Finland. Somehow I doubt it. Even the manner in which the woman from Britain makes the claim, is unconvincing, and I wonder about this entire observation exercise by the British visitor. Somehow it lacks credibility.
Children learn by doing ,telling stories and teachers or parent listen or give the children some attention .
see thats the thing right. children should be the focus but the teachers are doing most of the work. the teacher solves problems for you. the teacher writes down things and explains all for you. the teachers does all the thinking for you and you have all the steps to solve all the problems that its easy but its hard to digest and rationalize why they are doing it and there are far more things that concern kids than to work on their k12 problems and sustain their work ethic.
not that children should teach how it should be done. the only thing the teacher should do is follow the structure of the process and see they do not stray from it but leave the process to get there to the kids.
Give them incentives and ideas to lead them to solve each problems. it would take time but a standardized test can only help solve half of the problems.
standardized tests are good but there are hardly any creative work and trust in kids to leave them to think for themselves as well as show them how thinking and making mistakes and creating their own language and concepts to solve these problems and brainstorming helps them get personal with the already structured concepts and language in a given subject.
But no thats too much of a hassle and a philosophical puzzlefest to give these kids a lesson about.
Excellent video.
I like to see this system in India.
Pakistan needs to adopt the same Primary School system! But at least I can start with my kids.
Hello! Is homeschool legal in Pakistan?
@@realityobserver7521 many mothers homeschooled their children here. There's a lot of support and supporting materials for that
@@Eessanaeem Thats great to hear.
@@realityobserver7521 true. But it gets overwhelming as the mother strives to handle all subjects. I have a friend who decided to homeschool, so I know her disadvantages too.
may i be u`r student MsHanaku?...... :)
Lovely Teacher....
Very nice techniques of teaching ,I am teacher in India ,I will use this techniques in my class .which activities more helpful to students to improve there english reading skills ? Please .Reply
can u explain more...
how does this work
At 10:00 lady from Britain says teaching is same in Britain ........some how I doubt that.
lol me too
Does this class/lesson happen seperate from the main classroom? How many days a week, how long each day?
In Finland one lesson is 45min long and First grader's day is usually around 9:00 - 14:0
@@vk-dk9xd The best and longest day. The older they get the less hours they go to school. High school has the least hours even IB. Hence parents prefer to work extra kids are free and safe. At age 7 kids take public transport to school or bile or walk or ski. they come home alone. They have cell phone, keys and a credit card so they can even go buy food on their own. Parents come home at 18.00 and ask hi how was your day and prepare family meal
Now, I want to read their story and stories written by Finnish authors.
At school in 2008, we used to create our own version for the Little Red Riding Hood. Mine is bland, full of dialogue and no spice.
This is incredible as a homeschooling parent. UK system is going down the drain.
Quiet classrooms in public Australian schools...well...there should be a discussion about this... I can tell you that there is no place for a quiet classroom environment as long as the state is pumping up and opening, what they consider to be a "modern classroom" = open layout classrooms! Noise and disruptions from all sides... University students would benefit from these layouts, not primary students and especially not students with special needs and with sensitivities to noise and other sensory stimulation *(unavoidable in these types of classrooms).
Yes it looks like that in firs grade but then when you go higher grades It's not like that at all 🐊.
What is Finland education administration system ?
Finns value education and their children. Finland has a learning culture and the UK does not.
That one kid didn’t learn about interrupting
good
I wish my daughter studies in finland
In Finland and other Skandinavian countries, a teacher of primary levels has high social status, is quite well paid, has a master's degree, and holds a much sought after job with thousands of applicants for the training schools and few accepted.
I went to American schools. Before I was 10 years old, I read gone with the Wind on my own. Stop comparing education systems with all kinds of mixed variables to one another. It is just as pointless and destructive as comparing yourself to other people.
It's the innate intelligence of these Nordic people that has much to do with these students ' abilities and accomplishments.