Guide to Finnish Early Childhood Education

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09/2019

Finhow International Education

Professional development for ECEC Teachers & Administration

The Finhow Guide gives you insights into and tools for bringing the Finnish educational methodology to your pre-school.

The Finhow Guide offers a comprehensive approach to the Finnish way of thinking and doing things regarding early learning. The guide contains not only suggestions on curriculum, learning areas and transversal competencies, exercises, activities and example curriculums, but also the mindsets, values, and routines that support the pedagogy and methods that go with it when a school becomes a Finhow International Education Member School.

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Professional education

Languages

English

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Not required

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The Finhow Guide helps to understand the core principles of Finnish pedagogy in ECEC and gives a comprehensive introduction to the Finnish National Curriculum for early childhood and care.

The Finhow Guide gives guidance to implementing the Finnish pedagogical approach in everyday practices of early childhood education regardless of which curriculum the kindergarten follows.

Pedagogy

Educational Quality

Learning Goals

The pedagogical analysis covers how the product supports learning of the identified skills. The student’s role is assessed by four contrary pair parameters, which are selected to cover the most essential aspects on the use of the product.

Passive

Active

FinHow ECEC Guide supports kindergarten teachers and managers to implement child-centered, phenomenon-based pedagogy in daily practices.

Rehearse

Construct

According to FinHow ECEC Guide, the teacher's role is to guide children to define own learning goals and aim to keep up their interest in learning through play.

Linear

Non-linear/Creative

The guide helps teachers to design and facilitate children's individual learning paths but also offers a consistent set of learning goals in a variety of learning areas, which align well with e.g. IB PYP Curriculum and UK EYFS curriculum and provide accurately predictable learning outcomes.

Individual

Collaborative

FinHow's ECEC Guide directs teachers to facilitate social interaction children to be in a centric part of the learning experience. The teachers role is to provide guidance for constructive collaboration and allow children to share information, thoughts, and experiences.

The following are the high educational quality aspects in this product.

FinHow ECEC Guidebook supports kindergarten teachers and managers to implement child-centered, phenomenon-based pedagogy in daily practices.

According to FinHow ECEC Guide the teacher's role is to guide children to define own learning goals and aim to keep up their interest in learning through play.

The guide helps to design and facilitate children's individual learning paths and offers a consistent set of learning goals that align well with e.g. IB PYP Curriculum and UK EYFS curriculum.

The teachers role is to provide guidance for constructive collaboration and allow children to share information, thoughts, and experiences.

The supported learning goals are identified by matching the product with several relevant curricula descriptions on this subject area. The soft skills are definitions of learning goals most relevant for the 21st century. They are formed by taking a reference from different definitions of 21st century skills and Finnish curriculum.

Subject based learning goals

Understanding the core principles of Finnish pedagogy in ECEC.

Learning about the Finnish National Curriculum for ECEC.

Understanding how to implement Finnish pedagogical approach in everyday practices of early childhood education.

Learning to implement "Finnish Approach" in ECEC while using international curriculum.

Guide to Finnish Early Childhood Education