Sentences with phrase «finnish national board»

A person is qualified as a principal, when he or she has a higher university degree; the teaching qualifications in the relevant form of education; sufficient work experience in teaching assignments; and completed a qualification in educational administration in accordance with requirements adopted by the Finnish National Board of Education or studies in educational administration with a scope of no less than 25 credits organised by a university, or otherwise obtained sufficient knowledge of educational administration.

Aspiring headmasters / principals emerge from the faculty of schools and must complete a series of professional development offerings from the Finnish National Board of Education:

While nations around the world introduced heavy standardized testing regimes in the 1990s, the Finnish National Board of Education concluded that such tests would consume too much instructional time, cost too much to construct, proctor, and grade, and generate undue stress.

The Finnish National Board of Education defines the courses and standards, municipalities then write an aligned curriculum, and teachers write the lessons and assessments.

The Finnish National Board of Education has set a goal for the matriculation exam to be digital by 2016.

Professor Jari Lavonen, Head of the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Helsinki, and Paula Mattila, Counsellor of Education at the Finnish National Board of Education, also gave us firsthand insight into the reasons for the success of the Finnish education system.

Not exact matches

The Finnish answer to standardized tests has been to give exams to small but statistically significant samples of students and to trust teachers — so much so that the National Board of Education closed its inspectorate in 1991.

Of the many officials I interviewed at the Finnish Ministry of Education, the National Board of Education, the Education Evaluation Council, and the Helsinki Department of Education, all had been teachers for at least four years.

We have a valid ethical license (Finnish National Animal Experiment Board, ELLA, license number ESLH -2009-07827 / Ym - 23, expiring Oct 2012).

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