Helsinki Education Week 2021 programme(Link leads to external service) is out now! There are more than 100 events full of future skills and sustainable development to choose from. This year we have added even more events in English to cater for our international audiences. See what's happening this year and pencil in your favourites! Click through to the link to join this virtual celebration of learning, held in the first week of November, at: https://helsinkieducationweek.com/fi/events(Link leads to external service)
Here are our top tips for nine workshops and discussion sessions during the week.
How do you teach and learn skills for the future?
Schools prepare us for the future. In addition to the compulsory subjects, we all need various skills to help us navigate through this ever-changing world. Helsinki Education Week provides an in-depth exploration of the skills of the future: the best practices for learning, thinking, creating and doing things together.
Ways of shaping a sustainable and equal future are the topic of the Phenomenon-Based Learning Helps Learners to Shape Sustainable Future discussion session(Link leads to external service) for Helsinki-based teachers and international specialists. The Missing Dimension to Early Childhood Education event(Link leads to external service) explores, from an early childhood education and pre-primary education perspective, how children could be given a foundation in psycho-social wellbeing, social justice and lifelong success.
In the Teachers after the Pandemic – True Stories from Hel and Beyond event(Link leads to external service), Finnish, Norwegian and Dutch teachers get to meet each other and talk about their work during the coronavirus pandemic.
Take a virtual tour inside daycare centres and schools in Helsinki
Would you like to see inside Helsinki’s educational institutions? Take a virtual tour of Daycare Franzénia(Link leads to external service), Jätkäsaari Comprehensive School(Link leads to external service), Vuosaari Upper Secondary School(Link leads to external service) and of Stadin AO, the Helsinki Vocational College and Adult Institute's Meritalo unit(Link leads to external service) and Prinsessantie unit(Link leads to external service).
Are you tired of talks, chat boxes and Q&As? The Anti-Workshop event(Link leads to external service) invites you to consider how an online learning experience can be fun, inspiring and disruptive. They promise “No Zoombies here”.
How to improve inclusion in the classroom and beyond?
The experience of inclusion increases the wellbeing of learners and their faith in the future and their own capabilities. That is why the people holding the Helsinki Education Week events are the learners and educators themselves.
The students of class 4B in Puistopolku primary school in Helsinki teach third- to sixth-graders the basics of programming in virtual Scratch workshops (in Finnish)(Link leads to external service) . Månsas lågstadieskola, Staffansby lågstadieskola and Kottby lågstadieskola are the co-hosts of the week-long Läs – Lue – Read reading event (in Swedish and Finnish)(Link leads to external service), which offers reading tips and information on the positive effects of reading.
Interested in making music? Music educator Markku Kaikkonen and the musicians of Resonaarigroup, a pop and rock group consisting of professional musicians with disabilities, will be giving rhythm exercises to learners of all levels and abilities(Link leads to external service).
Did you find events you would you like to attend?
Browse the programme and register(Link leads to external service)!