Changing teachers. Secondary. Finland comes to England. 2
Description
Maija Flinkmann is a biology teacher and deputy head in a secondary school close to Helsinki in Finland. But for one week she is leaving her school and going to teach science in south London comprehensive Sydenham School for Girls. Can the Finnish approach, acknowledged as the best in the world, work in an English multicultural state school? And what will Maija's week tell us about why science education is so much more successful in Finland than England.
Runtime
27 min
Series
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2007
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
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