HEAT Teacher’s Summer School – Helsinki Education in Action for Teachers
Elevate your teaching practice with the HEAT Teachers’ Summer School in Helsinki, Finland. This transformative program immerses you in Finland’s innovative educational approaches, offering hands-on experiences that blend history, culture, and natural beauty. From dynamic classroom settings to the historic Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, you’ll gain fresh perspectives and practical strategies to enrich your teaching.
What You’ll Learn:
Aligned with the Finnish national core curriculum, this course emphasizes holistic, student-centered pedagogy. Engage in interactive sessions focusing on phenomenon-based learning, moving beyond traditional subjects to interdisciplinary themes. Experience the Finnish camp school ethos, enhancing cooperation and communication skills through active participation and collaboration with local educators.
- Implement student-centered teaching methods effectively.
- Design and facilitate interdisciplinary, phenomenon-based lessons.
- Foster a collaborative classroom environment.
- Integrate ethically sustainable and culturally sensitive practices.
- Adapt Finnish educational innovations to diverse cultural contexts.
Course Highlights:
- Immersive Learning Sessions: Participate in activities that reflect Finland’s educational philosophy, emphasizing active engagement and real-world connections.
- Collaborative Projects: Work individually or in groups to develop concrete outputs applicable to your school, with ongoing support from trainers.
- Cultural Exploration: Visit significant sites like the UNESCO-listed Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, enriching your understanding of Finnish culture.
- Networking Opportunities: Connect with international educators to share best practices and build lasting professional relationships.
- Expert Guidance: Learn from experienced Finnish educators, gaining insights into successful teaching strategies.
- Free access to Finnish Education Online Courses: Learn more about Finnish education before your visit.
This program combines theoretical knowledge with practical application, empowering you to implement innovative teaching methods in your classroom.
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Tickets
All tickets includes:
- Event materials
- Certificate of attendance
- School visits
- Admission to all sessions
Standard price
For standard registrations
Group price
Discounted price for groups of 5 or more
Catering and transportation package
Lunches and refreshments, entrance fees (on the planned excursions), welcome dinner and transportation during the program
By the end of the course, you will:
- Master student-centered and phenomenon-based teaching techniques.
- Enhance classroom cooperation and communication.
- Develop ethically sustainable and culturally adaptable teaching practices.
- Create actionable plans to integrate new strategies into your curriculum.
- Receive a Certificate of Active Attendance, with competencies validated on the Europass mobility.
Educators, school management, and non-teaching staff in primary, secondary, and vocational education seeking to innovate their teaching practices and integrate technology effectively.
Suvi is an expert in educational psychology with a broad understanding of education and a deep insight into the human mind and learning. She holds a Master’s degree in Education from the University of Helsinki and has taught students in an innovative educational psychology program. Suvi’s teaching experience includes lecturing, supervising pre-service teachers, and facilitating group processes in phenomenon-based learning. Her research has focused on teacher-student interaction, and she has also studied media education as part of her teacher training. With grassroots experience as a classroom teacher, youth worker, and camp supervisor, she brings practical knowledge of working with children and teenagers to her work in teacher education and training.
This is a provisional programme, the finalized program will be shared with participants prior to the course.
Day 1, Monday
8:30 Opening & introduction to Finnish Education
10:00 Everyone introduces themselves, followed by a team-building exercise
12:00 Group divided into two:
- Group A: History & sports: Shadowing 6th graders’ outdoor mobile-adventure-game
- Group B: School Visit, Primary
14:00 Late lunch
15:00 Time for independent cultural experiences
Day 2, Tuesday
8:30 Shadowing at kindergarten
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Group divided into two:
- Group A: School Visit, Primary
- Group B: Researchers of the Baltic Sea – a biology & geography workshop in Suomenlinna
15:30 Debrief of the first two days
Day 3, Wednesday
8:30 School visit, Middle School
11:30 Lunch at School
13:00 Be a student – lesson simulations
- Coffee break/ free time
17:00 Cannons & tunnels – a guided history tour in Suomenlinna (optional)
Day 4, Thursday
9:00 School visit, High School or Vocational (lunch at school)
13:00 Finnish afternoon at Lake Tuusula
- Canoeing
- Sauna
- Swimming
Lake Tuusula is renowned as a cultural landscape, home to many Finnish artists, writers, and composers of the Golden Age of Finnish national romanticism.
Day 5, Friday
09:00 Wrap up: A relaxed space to come together, share ideas, and envision the future of your school – exploring both what feels possible and what might once have seemed impossible.
12:00 Farewell Lunch
13:00 Discover HEUREKA science museum; Awaken your inner Archimedes or let your inner child play!