Empowered Educators in Finland: How High–Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality

INDICE: Foreword v .Acknowledgments ix .About the Sponsoring Organizations xiii .About the Authors xv .Online Documents and Videos xix .The Context 4 .Finnish Policies and Practices of Teacher Education 10 .Subject Teacher Education 29 .The Teachers Academy at the University of Helsinki 32 .After Graduation: Supports for Quality Teaching in Schools 33 .The Role of the Teacher in Finnish Schools 33 .Multiculturalism in Schools 39 .Teacher Appraisal in Finnish Schools: A Focus upon Personal Responsibility and Feedback for Growth 40 .Teachers Careers: Organic and Local Novice and Professional Development 44 .Decisions for the Future of Quality Teaching in Finland 51 .A Case of the Construction of Teacher Quality 54 .Aligned and Coherent Policies around Teaching and Teacher Preparation 55 .An Investment in Learning to Teach in Practice Paired with Considerable Theoretical Support 56 .A Focus upon Teachers Agency and Responsibility 56 .A Conception of Professional Development as Organic, Local, and In–time 57 .A Focus upon Children and a Refl ection of Key Ideas in Child Development 57 .A Continued Investment in Strengthening Teacher Education 59 .Looking Ahead 59 .Sample Documents 60 .Notes 61 .Appendix: Methodology 63 .References 65

• ISBN: 978-1-119-36971-4
• Editorial: Jossey Bass
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 96
• Fecha Publicación: 27/04/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés