Finland's Formula for School Success: Education Everywhere Series — Transcript

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1. 0:03if you look at the 15year olds or
2. 0:0516-year-old fins who are leaving the
3. 0:08basic School most of them have been in
4. 0:10special education throughout their
5. 0:12schooling which means that special
6. 0:15education actually is nothing special so
7. 0:17it's a you are a special child or
8. 0:19student if you haven't been if you
9. 0:21haven't ever used special services
10. 0:28[Music]
11. 0:40we are putting a lot of emphasis on the
12. 0:43early detection of any difficulties and
13. 0:46problems that the students in in our
14. 0:48schools may have and this is a very
15. 0:50different policy to many other countries
16. 0:52where these measures are designed in a
17. 0:54way that they are implemented only when
18. 0:56the problems have uh emerged and and are
19. 0:59are visible but we don't think like this
20. 1:02in Finland I think we believe in this
21. 1:03early intervention to make sure that
22. 1:05those who are likely to be in trouble
23. 1:09will be uh recognized early and provided
24. 1:12uh help and support as uh quickly as
25. 1:14possible
26. 1:15[Music]
27. 1:35[Music]
28. 1:40we as subject teachers cooperate with
29. 1:43the special teacher in cases where we
30. 1:45see that an individual student has
31. 1:48problems with their studies it might be
32. 1:51problems with concentrating on the theme
33. 1:53it might be reading and and listening
34. 1:55difficulties especially in languages and
35. 1:57math what we do is that we contact the
36. 2:00special teacher at the very early moment
37. 2:03we call it the first intervention we
38. 2:05talk with the special teacher and try to
39. 2:07arrange a time that she or he could be
40. 2:10able to come and join me as a subject
41. 2:12teacher to my classroom and then focus
42. 2:15on the problem
43. 2:17[Music]
44. 2:47[Music]
45. 2:51the special teacher is is available for
46. 2:54a couple of hours and then she picks the
47. 2:57student to a separate class classroom
48. 3:00and helps him or her there and we also
49. 3:03make an individual learning plan for
50. 3:07that individual student and by taking
51. 3:10these measures we try to guarantee that
52. 3:13no one is lacking behind
53. 3:15[Music]
54. 3:25[Music]
55. 3:41the student welfare team gathers on a
56. 3:43weekly basis and sub teachers inform the
57. 3:47group with different cases they might be
58. 3:50bullying they might be skipping classes
59. 3:51they might be learning difficulties they
60. 3:53might behavioral problems all kinds of
61. 3:55things
62. 4:15and then these individual problems are
63. 4:18dealt with Case by case in this weekly
64. 4:21meeting that every school in Finland has
65. 4:39student welfare group deals with any
66. 4:41kinds of problems that we see in school
67. 4:45having to do with problems at home or at
68. 4:48uh learning disabilities Multicultural
69. 4:52problems the main value of our student
70. 4:54welfare group is to interrupt as soon as
71. 4:58possible problems uh
72. 5:07involved with this policy we are trying
73. 5:09to really make it easy for everybody to
74. 5:12say yes I have some areas where I need
75. 5:14help now is there anybody who can help
76. 5:17rather than trying to hide these things
77. 5:19and in many cases when you do this in
78. 5:21the later years they will come and
79. 5:23accumulate even more difficult problems
80. 5:25so I think with this we have been able
81. 5:27to positively affect both the the equity
82. 5:30of the system and also the quality uh of
83. 5:33the system
84. 5:35[Music]
85. 5:50[Music]