Teacher Education Forum

OKM009:00/2023 Development

Teacher education is developed by the Teacher Education Forum set up by the Ministry of Education and Culture. All higher education institutions providing teacher education and relevant stakeholders will participate in the forum.

Basic information Completed

Project number OKM009:00/2023

Case numbers VN/30241/2022

Set by Ministry of Education and Culture

Term/schedule 28.2.2019 – 31.12.2023

Date of appointment

Summary

Teacher education is developed by the Teacher Education Forum set up by the Ministry of Education and Culture. All higher education institutions providing teacher education and relevant stakeholders will participate in the forum.

Starting points

The national Teacher Education Forum was nominated by the Ministry of Education and Culture to foster the research-based development of teacher education through co-configurative and broad collaboration and to prepare a development programme for teachers’ pre- and in-service education through co-configurative collaboration. The first term of the Forum was 2016-2018 and the second term 2019-2023.

Forum members represent universities, providers of education, teacher unions, student teachers, the Finnish National Agency for Education, the Ministry of Education and Culture and other relevant stakeholders such as the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities and the Trade Union of Education (OAJ).

The Teacher Education Development Program drawn up by the Teacher Education Forum in 2016 and renewed in 2022 outlines the goals and measures to keep teacher education strong, attractive and internationally respected.
The term 2019-2023 of the Teacher Education Forum has ended. In December 2023, the Ministry of Education and Culture granted funding to the University of Helsinki for the coordination and implementation of the new four-year term (2024-2027) of the Teacher Education Forum. Information on the activities of the Teacher Education Forum's new term can be found on the forum's new website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/beta/networks/teacher-education-forum.

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