Principal Study Tour

Description

Are you interested to learn, how principals in Finland lead this top-class education?

Finland has the best public governance in the world
and Finnish education is no exception.
(See the Legatum Institute’s latest global prosperity index)

Finnish schools are not among the best in the World by chance. They are also led and managed exceptionally well. It is the principals and headmasters who lay the foundation for equality and trust in Finnish schools. Principals in Finland make sure that teachers and students can perform at their best and achieve outstanding results.

Our one-week Principal Study Tour program gives visitors an overview of the Finnish education system and the role of pedagogical leadership. This Themed Study Tour introduces the founding principles of Finnish education management and leadership and how they are implemented in action. The program also offers an up-close and personal view of daily life of principals in the Finnish schools.

Target groups: Principals, headmasters, school leaders, school owners, early childhood education directors and managers.

Where: Tampere, Finland.
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Daily program on Study Tour at 9am – 3pm

On request for groups, contact us!

Monday: Introduction to the Finnish Education System 

• Finnish Education system
• Introduction to the principles behind the education system
• Paradoxes of Finnish Education: Less is More, No dead ends etc.
• Role and tasks of principal in Finnish schools
• School visit

Tuesday: Pedagogical Leadership

• Curriculum and Assessment in the Finnish Basic Education
• Development of school curriculum, self-assessment and operational culture
• School as a learning community
• Pedagogical leadership and learner centered learning approach
• Shared leadership in theory and in practice
• School visit

Wednesday: School governance and administration

• Principals in Finland: roles and tasks
• Current topics in Finnish school management: citizen participation, digitalisation, and transparency
• Principal’s digital management tools
• School administration and finance
• School visit
• Finnish Nature Experience or Dinner at Näsinneula Observation Tower

Thursday: Co-operation and leading educational support

• Home – school co-operation
• Multi-professional co-operation
• Co-operation with other stakeholders
• Importance of networking
• Inclusive education, guidance, counselling and student
  welfare services
• What does integration and inclusion mean in Finnish
  schools and how it is implemented?
• School visit

Friday: School of the future

• System thinking and leadership
• Future of education
• Strategic planning, leading school development and coaching
• Self-development of principals in Finland: professional growth, self-management, own well-being at work
• Farewell lunch
• Reflection of the program, ideas of implementation and co-operation
  

This is an example program. Minor changes to content and schedule are possible.

Program includes:

• Lectures held by Finnish Education experts
• Expert host during your program
• Learning materials
• Book Finnish Education in Practice: What, Why and How
• Guided visits to Finnish schools from primary to the general upper secondary schools
• Transportation to visit places and back
• Opportunities to talk with principals, teachers and students
• Participation in the school´s day-to-day activities
• Lunches and coffee
• Finnish Nature Experience or Dinner at Näsinneula Observation Tower
• Certificate of the participation
• Premium version of LessonApp for free for a year
• Farewell lunch

Trainers: Learning Scoop is a Finnish company working in the fields of education and training. The staff comprises experienced and internationally respected trainers, who are experts in the field of Finnish education and school leadership. The trainers have over 25 years of experience in leadership training in Finland and abroad. This experience has developed an academically based, yet truly practical approach to developing leadership skills. Learning Scoop trainers have received excellent feedback of their work.

Learning Scoop’s Study Tours were awarded as as the most authentic Finnish educational travel products and the best professional programs for teachers.

Costs: The price for individual participant is 1650e + possible VAT 24% / person

Group prices:
5-9 participants in a group the price is 1450e + possible VAT 24% / person
10-14 participants in a group the price is 1300e + possible VAT 24% / person
15-20 participants in a group the price is 1200e + possible VAT 24% / person

Accommodation

We are happy to collaborate with Lapland Hotels  which offers you a chance to experience Lapland in the heart of a city. The centrally located hotels ares close to our training premises. The design of the rooms was influenced by nature and the stories of Lapland. The restaurant serves unique tastes of Nordic nature and Lapland in visually pleasing dishes.

Lapland Hotels offer fixed prices for our customers accordingly:

Lapland Hotels Tampere, Address Yliopistonkatu 44, Tampere:

Room in Comfort Class for 1 person 112€/night in 2024
Room in Comfort Class for 2 persons 132€/night in 2024

Lapland Hotels Arena, Address Ratapihankatu 54, Tampere:

Room in Comfort Class for 1 person 122€/night in 2024
Room in Comfort Class for 2 persons 142€/night in 2024

Prices include buffet breakfast with local delicacies, taxes, sauna and wireless internet connection.

Check the availability and book your room at Lapland Hotels in Tampere by email sales.tampere@laplandhotels.com with code “LEARNINGSCOOP”

Check out our other study tours too: Arctic Pedagogy Study Tour, Early Childhood Education and Care Study tour, and Basic Education Study Tour!

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