Learn a lesson in Finland

How do I learn a lesson in Finland? Reflexion on observation class

Introduction






Methodology

In this work I will tell about mine impressions of education system in Finland trough observation a variety of classes and learning environments . Most of then happened at TAMK university of applied science of Tampere. One was at UTA, University of Tampere. One at Tampere vocational school of Tredu, Some of them are just observation of different projects as proacademy, BioHub, my-city and Cafe in Tredu.  It was observed 15 class. The research was guided by a questioner about what is important to observe in class.  I pretended to answered questions about theories of learning involves in finish class, what is the infrastructure used in class and virtually, behavior of a teacher, if he/she detains the knowledge, helps student to find, or act more as a coach guide them to work together. Notice students behavior if they trust, respect teacher, participate, make works alone and together, if they help each other, if they enjoy the class, if they are concern about what is important to learn. Methodology used by the answer of what kind of tools and methodologies teacher are using in class, as pre-study, warm up, introduction, explanation, management, form of evaluation, synthesis, learning by doing, PBL,



Result

The phisician teacher in engineering courses do a work together whit math, language teacher to students learnig by doing in a social construtive model. First class they are introduce to the work, after they are joined in groups and have to make the measurements, make a sheet and plot a graphics to show for all classmates. next day they went to other laboratory to make more measurements. The teacher first explain how to do the work and let the students do it, answer some doubts and about the  midle of the class he explain what they have to do next and  where they have take care. Language teacher....xx. Math teacher explain by using how to use computer stuff. They used excel and datas from friction experiment, they tabulated dates, made regretion analyses and have the standard deviation, to know how much they were wrong in theyr measurement and so used this knew informations to continuing building their report. they have a vrtual space with movies about the lessons, they have days to just study together and they also have regular assessement.
The language teacher in classes of English for foreign in Energy and Enviromental Engineering has also a system to make part of the class in a virtual enviromental, she use Tabula of TAMK system. She started the semester asking what is the aim of each student, what they want to improve in their English Skill. One of activities make the students meet a enterprise in their fields.
Two of the classes  observed have just the lecture of the teacher on the content in a tradicional way. One use datashow and let place to student speack and make question other just explain in a retroprojetor.



Final consideration




slides
http://pt.slideshare.net/mervijan/developing-vocational-education-and-training-excellence-from-policy-to-practice

pdf
http://www.cimo.fi/instancedata/prime_product_julkaisu/cimo/embeds/cimowwwstructure/18941_Finland_in_Focus_web.pdf