The purpose of the ALO Finland online courses is more than just content delivery and theory. They aim to enhance collaboration between teachers and encourage creative experiments in different schools and classrooms. Finnish education brings great academic results, whilst cultivating creativity, curiosity and life-long learning skills. Teachers can learn from the best practices, innovative experiments and pedagogy in Finnish primary schools via videos, text and photos. The emphasis of the courses is on the practical approach and to offer teachers solutions that can be repeated, benchmarked and further developed.

2. Digital Teacher Training Courses on Finnish Education
The purpose of the ALO Finland online courses is more than just
content delivery and theory. They aim to enhance collaboration
between learners and encourage creative experiments in different
schools and classrooms.
Finnish education brings great academic results, whilst cultivating
creativity, curiosity and life-long learning skills. Teachers can learn
from the best practices, innovative experiments and pedagogy in
Finnish primary schools via videos, text and photos.
The emphasis of the courses is on the practical approach and to
offer teachers solutions that can be repeated, benchmarked and
further developed.

3. 1. 21st
Century Competences and Learning
Learning Objectives:
● Introduction to online environment and authentic learning.
● Finnish education- innovative pedagogy and holistic approach
● The new national curriculum (2016) introduces multi-disciplinary,
phenomenal learning to meet the needs of the rapidly changing
living, learning and working environments.
● 21st century competences: ICT, entrepreneurship, life skills, multi-
literacy, active participation, cultural competence, self-expression
and interaction, thinking and learning to learn skills

4. 2. Play, Creativity, Fun and Active Learning
Who says learning can't be fun?
Childhood, play and playful learning are highly valued in Finland.
Education supports the development of academically strong, happy
and healthy children.
Learning Objectives:
● The basic concepts of playful and engaging learning, whole school
collaboration and learning environment.
● Teacher autonomy, innovative teaching – Fun and active learning.
● Creative use of EdTech, teacher as a facilitator, tech as a tool.
● Whole schools as encouraging learning environment, learners
responsibilities and active participation, peer to peer learning.
● Sustainable development and environmental education examples
from an award winning teacher training school in Finland.

5. 3. Collaborative Coding – Finnish Double Flip
Computational thinking and ICT are part of the new national
curriculum (2016) in Finland.
Coding lessons are a good example of creative use of technology to
introduce the basics of coding and enhance collaboration in school
and even beyond. Instead of just teaching the primary year 3 pupils
how to code, they were given the responsibility to teach coding to
other classes and teachers. They taught around 200 pupils, teachers,
local entrepreneurs and even the mayor, computational thinking and
collaboration skills.
Learn how the Finnish Double Flip-lessons were put into practice in
Finnish schools and experiment with coding and collaboration in
your own school with the help of videos, lesson plan and games.

6. 4. AI, Flipped and Gamified Maths
Finland is facing challenges in integrating technology into
education. There are different practical ways to successfully
integrate technology into teaching and learning.
Learning Objectives:
● The basic concepts of gamification, playful and engaging learning,
learning by teaching, whole school collaboration and learning
environment.
● Fun and informative use of games to support individual learning.
● Effective use and making of learning videos as well as lesson plans
to enhance collaborative learning and motivation for continuous
skills development.

7. 5. Early Learning & Preschool Education
Active learning by playing and doing are valued highly in Finnish
preschools. Numbers, reading, writing and science are introduced in
early learning education, but children do not need to read or write
before they go to school. Finnish children can be illiterate until age
seven, but they very quickly catch up and become very efficient and
motivated readers in primary school.
In some countries they begin with academic subjects at very young
age, when in Finland children's play, curiosity and creativity play
the biggest role in learning. Children should learn how to learn and
value play, life-long learning as well as their learning community.
Visit Finnish preschools online and learn from the child-centered
and playful learning in Finland.

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