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I am Pirjo Pollari. I'm English teacher here at Jyväskylä Normaalikoulu which

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in English is Jyväskylä Teacher training school. Autonomy. Freedom, 

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freedom to teach how I see best fit that's the

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best thing. Hello I'm Nina Melander, and I'm an English and French teacher here at

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Norssi as our students call it or Jyväskylä Normaalikoulu. I think the best

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in my work or in Finnish teachers work is Trust, the trust that we have

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from the administration, the principals. We have no annual inspections

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in Finland and so prior to teaching here at Norssi I, I was teaching

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in an International school run by the British curriculum in Asia and I was

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inspected annually. I had to give in my, my planning

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so my annual planning, I had to show it to the principal and

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from time to time the principal would come into my classroom to inspect my work but here

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in Finland that doesn't happen. I'm trusted as a professional to do my work,

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according to my own planning and of course the principal can come in if

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I invite him or her, but he doesn't come in to inspect me or to check up on

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me and the schools in Finland like here in Jyväskylä, in the city they're not

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ranked against each other according to standardized tests, which put pressure on

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the teachers and so we're all equal in that sense as well. So

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that's absolutely the best thing. Because we are all equal and we're all

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professionals, we are not competing against each other. So

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I think where, we did work together even in Asia. We work together and

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we try to do our best together for our school, but there was this

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tendency also to compete. Because if we were a set of French teachers

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for example, we always were hoping to get the best results

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and so then everyone knew the results my students were getting

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and I knew what my colleagues' students were getting. So there could have been

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a tendency towards competing also against the teachers against teachers in that

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sense but it here in Finland that doesn't happen. I think partially because we have no inspections 

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from the administration. So we're all just colleagues

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and we work together for the best of the students.