To understand what is going on in Finland, its perhaps important to start not with a snapshot of their test scores and existing education structures but with a historical perspective.
Via Mary Perfitt-Nelson
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I have been watching how the educational system works in Finland and now Mary shares this awesome article about choices and perspectives .Good reading :)
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Cultures of Thinking and Ron Ritchhart
Questioning is a vital part of thinking, teaching and learning. We need to consider the purpose of every activity our students engage in while always looking to build higher level questioning into the daily routine.
Generative: Exploring the topic • Authentic questions or wonders that teacher doesn’t know the answer to. • Essential questions that initiate exploration of a topic Constructive: Building New Understanding • Extending & Interpreting • Connecting & Linking • Orienting and focusing on big ideas, central concepts, or purpose • Evaluating
Facilitative: Promotes the learner’s own thinking & understanding • Requesting elaboration, reasons, evidence, justification • Generating discussion among the class to hear different perspectives • Clarifying and Uncovering Via Mary Perfitt-Nelson Delete the scoop?
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systems moving from poor to fair rely far more heavily on policies that “tightly control teaching and learning processes from the center because minimizing variation across classrooms and schools is the core driver of performance improvement at this level.” Systems working to go from good to great, by contrast, “provide only loose guidelines on teaching and learning processes because peer-led creativity and innovation inside schools becomes the core driver for raising performance at this level.
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What does that have to do with education reform in America? A lot, actually.
They released themselves from a top-down approach and gave more autonomy to the teachers/schools. They valued the group over the individual. They committed to the plan and implemented it well.
Easy!