The topic “Waste and Recycling in day cares in Finland” is an important aspect of environmental education in Finnish educational institutions. In Finland, great importance is placed on sustainable and environmentally conscious upbringing. In day cares, children learn at an early age how to handle waste and why recycling is important.
Finnish as a Second Language (S2) in preschool refers to programs that help children whose mother tongue is not Finnish to learn the Finnish language at an early age.
Eighteen students from the Jane Addams School of Berlin (Germany) spent two weeks in Jyväskylä in the framework of their Erasmus+ occupational field study.
Twenty students from the “Johanna Just” school of Potsdam (Germany) spent two weeks in Jyväskylä in the framework of their Erasmus+ occupational field study.
I work as a German teacher, in a Finnish-speaking preschool group in Finland. When I first started working in that group, everything was new. A new education system, a new team, but most of all, the language was new. A language that I couldn’t derive from anything I knew or understood at the beginning.
At Experience Workshop, we are proud to support international collaboration and cultural exchange through programs like Erasmus+. This year, we have the pleasure of welcoming Tamara Traiser, an enthusiastic and dedicated intern from Germany, who joined us in Jyväskylä, Finland, for a unique opportunity in early childhood education.
At the end of January, Experience Workshop organised an Erasmus+ student mobility and teacher job shadowing of St Augustine’s Christian Primary and Secondary School in Fót, Hungary in Viitaniemi Lower Secondary School in Jyväskylä, Finland.
Ten students and four teachers from Budapest travelled to Jyväskylä for a six-day Erasmus+ mobility to explore Finnish education, with a special emphasis on digital learning.