Guide to Finnish Early Childhood Education

Go back
CertifiedEducation quality
09/2019
Guide to Finnish Early Childhood Education

Guide to Finnish Early Childhood Education

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.

Age groups 
Professional education
Languages 
English
Registration 
Not required
Offline play 
Playable offline
Pictures
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.

Soft skills learning goals

The Finnish Educational Quality Certificate

Our Quality Evaluation Method is an academically sound approach to evaluating a product’s pedagogical design from the viewpoint of educational psychology.

The method has been developed with university researchers and all evaluators are carefully selected Finnish teachers with a master's degree in education.

More about the evaluation