Tag Archive for: education

When The New Normal Becomes Simply The Normal

When the coronavirus pandemic first hit, there was accelerated demand in remote trainings as Zoom, Teams and Google Meets were introduced to the mainstream.

Seeing the Good in Children Helps Them Flourish 

Keeping up with positive growth mindset can help us all - children, teachers and parents - to get through these challenging times.

The Effectiveness of Co-Teaching

Co-teaching is not a new innovation. Traditionally, it is about two or more teachers teaching at the same time in the same physical space to a group of students.

Talented in Maths? – How to Keep Students Motivated?

Maths is often approached as a subject that is hard and boring to learn. This mindset seems to be much more tolerated with maths than many other school subjects.

Rewarding, Challenging, Educating

End of February 2020 seems like lightyears away now. We were extremely happy to have organized the second annual Finnish Education Expo Middle East in Dubai.

Seeing The Good in Your Students Helps Them To Flourish

Kaisa Vuorinen is the founder and CEO of Positive Learning Ltd, a company which promotes and teaches positive pedagogy. Here she tells us about what the movement is about.

Voice and Laughter – How to grow student engagement online

Student engagement poses new possibilities and challenges as we have moved to remote teaching and learning. Finnish education expert working in Abu Dhabi, Jaakko Skantsi discusses key learnings on student engagement during the Covid-19 era.

5 Ways Play Enhances Learning

Play teaches kids about social, interpersonal and problem solving skills. It increases creativity and resilience – all these being skills considered to be key players in the future of work.

The UAE is the perfect launchpad for EdTech solutions

Digital learning and communication environments are an essential part of today’s education.

It’s All About the How

I am so used to educators in the Gulf region coming to talk to me at events saying how they admire the Finnish education system.