We notice a good - The city of Äänekoski has almost 50 positive pedagogy teachers
- I have received real concrete tools for my work, class teacher at Koivisto school Leila Hakkarainen thank. Hakkarainen is one of the 24 teachers of positive pedagogy and broad-based well-being skills who graduated from Äänekoski this spring. The teachers of the city of Äänekoski completed the academic year's 35-credit studies in addition to their work.
Previously, Äänekoski had twenty teachers who completed additional training, so now Äänekoski has almost 50 teachers of positive pedagogy and broad-based well-being skills. The amount would be a fantastic achievement in any larger city.
Four teachers have now completed the training from Koivisto's school alone.
- Positive pedagogy is part of our school's everyday life, and it does not remain just a formality. We have a great new log school in Koivisto, but the most important thing for us is the school's accepting atmosphere and the joy of learning, not the handsome walls, Leila Hakkarainen sees.
During the training, teachers from different schools and kindergartens got to know each other and saw the other's ways of working. You can now take good practices and exercises to your own work community to other teachers as well. In addition, the curriculum provides good content from the training.
- The lessons are now easy to put into practice when they have been done together. The final works of others are also available to everyone, subject teacher at Suolahti middle school Katja Lahtinen says.
- This has also opened my eyes to what kind of things are done in smaller schools, before those students come to our unified school.
Reinforcing positive feelings and successes
- Strengths cannot be overemphasized, especially when it comes to adolescent children, Katja Lahtinen thinks.
Positive pedagogy offers environments, tools and presence that help the child learn to strengthen their own well-being. The center of the teaching is the identification and utilization of character strengths and positive emotions. With the means of positive pedagogy, the ability to perceive positive emotions can be practiced, and also goal-oriented to increase positive experiences in everyday life. When a child learns to notice his own successes, the experiences make him permanently stronger and more resilient.
- The training was not so much theoretical, but very practical. At the beginning of the training, we first got to know ourselves, which is of paramount importance in order to be able to implement positive pedagogy and take it to the students, says Hakkarainen.
A teacher's work is hectic, in which case interaction and emotional skills are important. You also have to know how to stop and listen.
The city of Äänekoski has invested in additional training opportunities for its teachers.
- The training has been free for our teachers and the director of education and training has also been able to use working time for it Ville Härtsia tells. Härtsia has been really impressed by how motivated the teachers at Äänekoski have been for further training, in addition to the demanding work.
Trainer Viivi Pentikäinen sees that education is truly about investing in well-being and promoting well-being in schools, and not that the goal is only read in the strategy.
- Points to Äänekoski for being able to use working time for training. Generally, in other cities, teachers participate in the training entirely on their own time on weekends. This is correct and effective promotion of well-being, says Pentikäinen.
– The training complements the existing teacher studies very well. This is a great investment from the city, Lahtinen thanks.
- I am very grateful that the city has given us such a gift, Koivisto's early childhood education teacher Tarja Aho comp.
For more information:
Director of Education Ville Härtsiä, 040 509 3657, ville.hartsia@aanekoski.fi
Special class teacher, trainer Sari Terävä, 0400 115 198, sari.terava@aanekoski.fi
News published 11.5.2022, modified 14.5.2024/07/53 at XNUMX:XNUMX