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[quote=Anonymous]Hey, Jaakko from Helsinki, Finland ... thanks for your very informative post. I work in education and it is refreshing to hear from someone who is directly experiencing the Finnish system. I really like what you said about teacher autonomy and support, rather than a culture of competition. I have taught in a couple of countries and I found huge differences in the way teaching is viewed as a profession. I quit because we ended up living in a place where the teaching profession was 'dull', so to speak. There was no vibrancy, which I saw as stemming from the fact that teachers weren't encouraged to create for themselves ... i.e. adapt curricula, create materials, contribute to the thinking in their subject's pedagogical circles, etc. A culture of distrust means you don't retain the top teachers, IMO. Thanks again![/quote]
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