One of the interesting workshop was a MobileSummer School 2014 (http://www.mobiilikesakoulu.com/in-english), which is Agriculture Department of HAMK university of Applied Science. The MobileSummer 2014 is located in beautiful place Mustiala area. MobileSummer school is organized  outside traditional classrooms free creativity,  I have taken  part the following section: Pedagogy, Technology, Games and 3D-virtual environments. The main features of this school is by using mobile devices and network in learning such as: testing, doing and sharing experiences (http://youtu.be/zjmD08Dnojs).   

International and multicultural week

" International and multicultural week" is called our theme in this week. By leading Riitta Metsänen, D.Ed., Principal Lecturer & Leila Nisula, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer. 

Today, we have visited one of the largest city Tampere in Finland. Tampere is the very beutiful city, which is located between, Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi. Dear readers, I have had excelent feeling after the visiting Tampere.

First of all, our group were in Sara Hildén Art Museum, which is the permanent home of the collection of modern art, Finnish and foreign, owned by the Sara Hildén Foundation. We have seen an exhibition of Andy Warhol. He is one of the king of pop art. The exhebition is represented 150 works about changing the image of America, and with it, of modern contemporary society. It was pleasure for me to be in these kind of the exhebition. 

Furtermore, we have been in Särkänniemi Adventure Park, where guests can visit  following places:

SpeedBoat
Aquarium
Dolphinarium
Planetarium
Rides
Angry Birds Land
Doghill
Näsinneula Observation Tower
Restaurant Näsinneula
Sara Hildén Art Museum.

I have spent a great time by riding on the Planetarium attraction,to introduce closely I put small video. 

One of the my favorite town is a Hameenlinna))

We have visited the "Sebeluis" museum. Jean Sebeluis is a famous Finnish composer. Actually, we was in the Sebeluis house. I put one composition. 

One of the most important features between Finnish and Kazakhstan School is a counselling in School. During the 10-th week we had a lecture with Paivi Pukikila. She was a counsellor at high School. At the moment Paivi works at HAMK University of Applied Sciences.  The first day was very interesting and understandable. At the beginning she represents for us a presentation about "Study counselling in Finland".  I illustrated a picture of Study counselling in Finland generally.

OK, returning for the main question, let  try to determine what is the counselling.  The main thing about "study counselling " are giving time, attention and respect. It means counsellor should pay attention for student. I understood, that counselling are not giving answers and it is not a therapy. 

Usually, counsellor does not teach. Paivi said that one of reason of  good result of PISA is the Finnish counselling system. The School needs the counsellor. The teacher does not have a  time to counselling students in their important steps of a School life. That is why the counselling is important for students life. 

The most important is a Personal study. The teacher create the Personal Study with  student, which includes future plan of student. 

Also, Career counselling is a big part of counselling. It means student do beforehand own projects  for future. 

The main thing about counselling is like this: students have to find their ability or insparition by themselves. A role of the teacher is to direct, pay attention for the student. 

In Kiipula special needs vocational school.

In Finland every level of Education system has  opportunity for special needs student. Finland has totally the 7 special needs vocational School.  We visited Kiipula special needs vocational School  Some photo report from Kiipula:

The visual art lesson in Kaurialan school

  Hello, everyone! Yesterday, I attended a visual art subject in Kauriala school.   Students work in a small group.  The lesson was not like a traditional  lesson. Students work in the work shop.A visual art classroom is equipped with good equipments. The teacher uses different kind of books, magazines, digital photos, Painting tablet and computers.  The teacher uses methods such as: project based learning, learning by doing, problem based learning. She lets them to bring their own devices (BYOD). Each group has to create a movie. To create the movie they can choose following  assignments:

·        collect photo (taking photo by using semiprofessional camera) ;

·        draw  or sketch a image on the paper;

·        draw the image in Photoshop, apps and etc.

In my opinion, all methods that used the teacher is good. Piritta does not limit students to  follow exactly way. She just directs them. The teacher gives for each group different themes. I think, this method is suitable for my lesson. Therefore, I want to apply it. Inspite  of freedom students was active.

I think, teacher could motivate students. There are some following reasons:

·        the teacher knows very well her job;

·        the classroom  is equipped in very high level;

·        students can choose this course themselves, it means they are concerned about visual art;

·        She does not limit students to do exactly a task. The teacher teaches by different books. It gives teacher and students a freedom. The atmosphere of group is very free and warm. If they want, students can sit on   the floor. Piritta guides students to find their inspiration.

   I am not a visual art teacher. However, I think I can apply some methods that I mentioned above as a ICT teacher. For instance:  I will give to students learning objectives at the beginning lesson. And then I will propose for students different ways to achieve a final result. I will guide them by feedback.  

also, she proposes different themes from a real life. For example: she gives them photos from books, magazines or internet resources, students should to change or modify the photo in their view. I want to emphasize, that as said Piritta before they  was going to create movie by using IPads. However, she said that students prefer to use a school camera. I could not find exact an answer for the question: “why teacher did not achieve goal ?”. I understood that, the teacher gives them freedom, students  do not follow in a strict way. 

   In conclusion, I affirm  again, that the success of Finnish Education system is a power of a government system. The government provides students  to find their an inspiration, which will become the motivation and activation in their learning. That’s why the government has the  qualification experts.