The main advantages of the Finnish system are seen as being: - Condensed and high quality education - Equity - Free education - Motivated teachers of excellence - Attention to the students. Achieved objectives are: -improvement of technical and practical teaching skills for the school teachers; -offering a Continuous Professional Development (CPD) platform; -have made understandable the importance and the dynamics of the 'knowing-how-to-do' concept; -synergies between different education worlds; -building on national workshops on Finnish education that were held in Malta by Learning Scoop with a yearly cadence from 2017 up to date, especially with the role of the Head of School, Kenneth Vella, ambassador of the Republic of Malta to Finland; -have made Maltese educators more aware of the Finnish system of education; -implemented methods and concepts being adopted by Finnish schools within the local Maltese educational context.
The project CPD THROUGH FOREIGN EXPERIENCE - FINLAND 2 seeked to develop a wider interpretation and approach of Continuous Professional Development (CPD). The school also invested on the project as a driving force to successfully meet the contemporary challenges, in line with the recent developments in the Maltese education in which a number of reforms that are being implemented at primary and secondary level are based on the success of the Finnish system of education. The realised mobilities have been a concrete opportunity to discuss and be trained about: -the main principles underlying the Finnish Education system; -the new curriculum for Finnish schools and how it is reflected in the teaching and the assessment of students of different ages; -the support that is given to children with learning difficulties; -inclusive education; -counselling and other welfare services that are offered to the students; -teaching away from the classroom in the open air, notice the lack of boundary walls of the school from the houses, roads or forests; -the way the school is organized and managed.