How To Succeed in Differentiation: The Finnish Approach

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Differentiation is an approach to education in which every student's individuality and special needs are taken into account. Practical and accessible, HOW TO SUCCEED IN DIFFERENTIATION reveals the approach taken in the high-achieving Finnish education system, where the national curriculum obligates all teachers to differentiate their teaching from the get-go. The book is divided into four parts. Part I explains the background of Finnish education and differentiation in the Finnish context. Part II investigates the theoretical basis for differentiation and strives to offer new perspectives for the most common challenges of differentiation. In addition, Part II introduces the reader to the imaginary example students, whose problems are attempted to be solved later in the book. In Part III, differentiation is approached through the five-dimensional model of differentiation, which the authors have created and which, in their opinion, covers the most central areas of teaching, in which differentiation should be acknowledged. In Part IV, differentiation is exemplified in language and literature, mathematics and foreign languages.

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Anssi Roiha (PHD) works as a lecturer at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht in the Netherlands where he trains pre-service English teachers. Before his career in tertiary education, Roiha worked many years in primary education. He has worked as a student support specialist at an International Baccalaureate school in the Netherlands and as a special education teacher in Finland. In addition to differentiation, his other research interests are CLIL education and intercultural education. Jerker Polso (MEd, MBA) is a principal and special education teacher who has worked as a teacher and trainer in all levels of education in Finland. He has mostly worked in primary school as a classroom teacher and a special education needs teacher. Polso has also worked in in-service training for teachers and principals internationally. He is the principal of an international Finnish comprehensive and upper secondary school. Alongside work, he writes his doctoral dissertation in in-service teacher training and education exports.