Education system in Finland

The results in the "informe pisa" placed first in the list of education system in the world to Finland. This country has different key points to explain these results:

1. The teaching profession is highly valued: the equivalent to teaching in Finland is a complicated and demanding degree that includes personal interviews, so the teachers are very well prepared and vocational professionals.

2. Education is free and accessible to all: the public educational system establishes that education is free and compulsory between 7 and 16 years old. Not pay for books or for school materials, and all the children get a hot meal a day at school, also free. In the case that the child live more than 5 km away from the school, the municipality must organize and pay transport.

3. The distribution of public money is made in an equitable manner.

4. The curriculum is common but the centers are organized: each school and its teachers design and organize the curriculum.

5. Education is customized: from the first courses intervenes to support students with special needs. Teachers often deal with the same group from 1 (7 years) to 6 (12 years), which helps you to know them much better.

6. The students have time for everything: education is taken seriously but is also attaches importance to the game and to rest. Children don't start school until age 7, moment in which they are considered mature to learn: In addition, teaching sessions are shorter. Elementary students have only 3 or 4 classes a day.

7. Prepare the class is part of the workday: teachers do not teach many hours of class.

8. It avoids competition and evaluate with numbers: students don't do exams until the 5th year (11 years).

9. Rewards curiosity and participation.

10. Parents are involved in education.

REFERENCE:
AulaPlaneta, (22 de Enero de 2015). Las 10 claves de la educación en Finlandia. Recogido de: http://www.aulaplaneta.com/2015/01/22/noticias-sobre-educacion/las-diez-claves-de-la-educacion-en-finlandia/