Finnish Professional Teacher Training: Excellence in Education

The excellent and renowned results of Finland's education system are based on the high quality of our pedagogical methodologies and on our proactive approach to teaching. Haaga-Helia School of Professional Teacher Education is proud to implement modern tools and latest technology to ensure that our graduates will excel at their profession.

The Finnish Professional Teacher Training: Excellence in Education can be used as an initial teacher training programme of 60 ECTS (approximately one academic year) or you can buy separate in-service training modules of 10 ECTS.

What can we offer you and your organisation

The Finnish Professional Teacher Training: Excellence in Education programme focuses on the competences needed in teaching and guidance of diverse students in various learning environments. In addition, the programme provides students with the competences needed in networking and developing their educational organizations, the field of working life and professions.

What else you and your organisation will gain

• The personal development plan ensures that the participant will have a customized study process in terms of content and learning activities.
• The team-based learning mode enables shared learning activities, col-laborative working methods and peer evaluation and feed-back.
• Guided work based learning in your own teaching tasks gives possibilities to the beginning teachers to practice the basic teaching and guiding skills; to the experienced teachers it offers possibilities to renew their pedagogical thinking and teaching practice.
• The development project included in the studies gives competences needed in developing participant’s own work and organization, and more broadly, educational sector, working life and professions.
   

The programme

Orientation to the programme

Module 1 (10 ECTS):

• Identifying competence and the elaborating the personal development plan
• Onboarding the digital platform
• Introduction to learning theories.
   

Teaching practice development project

Module 2 (10 ETCS):

• Designing teaching and learning
• Practicing tutoring
• Online education.

Module 3 (10 ECTS):

• Assessment and validation of learning and competence
• Collaborative workshops.

Module 4 (10 ECTS):

• Collaborative workshops
• Orientation to networks and communities
• Work-based learning
• Future of Higher Education.

Module 5 (10 ECTS):

• Collaborative workshops
• Entrepreneurship education
• Quality assurance
• Ethical principles in teacher´s work. 
   

Wrap-up & Next steps

Module 6 (10 ECTS):

• Comprehensive assessment of the development projects
• Transfer of knowledge and the dissemination seminar.

Information

For more information contact:
Jutta Paukkonen
Head of Sales
[email protected]