Curriculum development process 2012-2016

1. CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT –
TOWARDS 21ST CENTURY SKILLS
THE CURRENT FINNISH MODEL
TIINA SARISALMI

2. FINNISH EDUCATION SYSTEM
Laws and
regulations
Decrees of
the
Government
National
core
curriculum
Local
curriculum
Teaching
and
studying
Learning

3. CURRICULUM
DEVELOPMENT/DESIGN PROCESS
2012 – Core curriculum
2013 Core curriculum
General basis:
values, pedagogy,
Subject related
learning
environments and content.
culture.
Comments from
local level and
Comments from
individuals.
local level and
individuals.
2014 Local curriculum
Local and regional
priorities,
applications and
teacher training.
2016
Implementation

4. WHY DO WE NEED CHANGES?
Digitalization
• ICT skills
• New literacies
• Information curation and knowledge building skills
• Learning to learn
Globalization
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Sustainable way of life
• Team work and collaboration skills

5. CROSS-CURRICULAR SKILLS
Thinking and learning
Intercultural, communication and presentation skills
Health care, home-economics and life skills
Multiliteracy
ICT skills
Career skills and entrepreneurship
Active citizenship, student engagement and responsibility

6. CHANGES IN CULTURE
• From teacher centered to student centered learning (active
learning-by-doing)
• From transference of knowledge to building of knowledge
• From teaching and learning alone to collaboration
(networked learners)
• From classrooms and textbooks to real-life learning and virtual
environments
• From isolation to feeling of community and global
responsibility

7. KEY QUESTION
in learning
WHAT?
HOW?

8. TO DISCUSS…
What kinds of skills and knowledge will our students
need in the future?
What’s the ethical basis of global citizenship? How can
we support sustainable development, peace and
equal rights through education?
What’s ”good learning”? How can we promote new
flexible student-centered ways of learning in school
culture?