Why Finland's education standards are among the best in the world
According to a 2012
The secret of Finland's stellar schools - The Week
http://theweek.com/article/index/249613/the-secret-of-finlands-stellar-schools
This article summarizes what Kim, an American, noticed during his three-month study abroad at a Finnish high school. According to Kim, 'The students seemed to embrace school education,' and even the bad boys who smoked outside didn't cause any noise in class, and when asked to write an essay, they would complete it just like the other students.
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However, the school does not offer an intense, crammed curriculum, with students attending high school for around 190 days a year, about the same as the relaxed education system in Japan. The teachers are also passionate about education, and when Kim was struggling in her Finnish class, her teacher, Stella, noticed that she was using children's stories as teaching materials, creating opportunities for her students to grasp the basics of the language, and has a philosophy of not letting anyone fall behind.
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In most American universities, the School of Education is known as one of the easiest majors to graduate from, and anyone who loves children is accepted. However, in Finland, majoring in Education requires the same level of qualifications as majoring in Medical School in the United States, and the level of the College of Education is on a par with Georgetown University and the University of California , Berkeley, after which a master's degree must be obtained at graduate school.
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Stella, Kim's teacher, studied for six years at the University of Jyväskylä to become a teacher. She spent the first four years studying Finnish literature, and the teacher training program began in her fourth year. She then went on to earn a master's degree, and spent the first year doing practical teaching practice at one of the country's top national universities before finally obtaining her teaching qualifications.
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Finland has consistently achieved high scores in PISA , an international student achievement survey conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and Japan has also been ranked in the top 10 in three areas: reading literacy, mathematical literacy, and scientific literacy.
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