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Finland Day Five

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On Friday teachers went back to the training room where they reflected on the practice and teaching/learning seen in Finnish schools.

Teachers looked at Finnish data showing the following key policy points that lead to higher performance:

(Equity = Excellence)

Some wellbeing facts about the Finnish education system:

The 2016 World's Happiness Report by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and the Earth Institute at Columbia University produced the following results.

1st Denmark, 5th Finland, 13th USA, 20th Ireland. For unknown reasons the U.K was not included in this study!

The study used the following factors:  GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, everything else.

Action Planning

Teachers worked on an action plan for their school.  We will be presenting our action plan to Rothersthorpe pupils and community shortly.