Joy of Learning in Finland

[@IftikharAhmed-nm3vc]

Beautiful class and school

[@IftikharAhmed-nm3vc]

Very nice

[@IftikharAhmed-nm3vc]

I like so much

[@ellisehackshaw]

Having watched the video to the end, another clear distinction between Finish schools and schools in Trinidad and Tobago which emerges is infrastructure. The Finish schools in the video are modern and rich. Classes are small or large classes have multiple teachers. The vast investment made in both the physical school as well as school personnel is clear. Investment in local schools always seems to be humbugged by politics and improvement to the physical infrastructure is mainly confined to making desperately needed repairs. Policy changes from government to government and the only consistency is the lack of respect shown to teachers. The type of paradigm shift required to move the situation in Trinidad and Tobago to the one in Finland seems impossible to imagine. It is my hope however that the type of collaboration and respectful communication needed to come up with a clear and distinct vision for education fashioned along the Finish model but tweaked to the cultural norms of our nation may one day emerge. I am certainly be willing to be part of the charge.

[@tiriancarlow4914]

I really respect the Finish approach to education. I think it is ideal and that law makers and the society at large had the political will to implement the systems that value equality, equity, trust and collaboration is commendable. In countries like Trinidad and Tobago the society has been damaged by a colonial past steeped in competition, inequality and lack of trust. All the elements needed to build a system similar to the Finish one are therefore absent. While there are those who pay lip service to these ideals, the lack of will and action to truly put children first is seen year after year in attitudes to standardized assessments such as the SEA and the total lack of respect shown to teachers, especially Primary teachers across the education system. Despite this, I believe each teacher who truly believes in a Social Constructivist approach to education, as I do, can do his/her part to be the change he/she wishes to see. Through sharing, collaborating and communicating the slow process of changing minds and attitudes can begin and lives can be changed even if it is one child at a time.

[@ashoknayaki7776]

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[@ellisehackshaw]

I really respect the Finish approach to education. I think it is ideal and that law makers and the society at large had the political will to implement the systems that value equality, equity, trust and collaboration is commendable. In countries like Trinidad and Tobago the society has been damaged by a colonial past steeped in competition, inequality and lack of trust. All the elements needed to build a system similar to the Finish one are therefore absent. While there are those who pay lip service to these ideals, the lack of will and action to truly put children first is seen year after year in attitudes to standardized assessments such as the SEA and the total lack of respect shown to teachers, especially Primary teachers across the education system. Despite this, I believe each teacher who truly believes in a Social Constructivist approach to education, as I do, can do his/her part to be the change he/she wishes to see. Through sharing, collaborating and communicating the slow process of changing minds and attitudes can begin and lives can be changed even if it is one child at a time.