Meeting with principal of Kaurialan Lukio.
Today we had a meeting with Tuomo Iltanen. He is a principal of Kaurialan Lukio of Hameenlinna. It is the biggest upper secondary school in Hameelinna with 570 students and 32 teachers. He was talking to us about the main features of Finnish schools in terms of Kauriala. At the begining we were talking about Finnish education in general. When we touched upon the subject of number of students we found out that the number of students in one class depends on grade (1 grade < 25; 2-6 grades < 30; 7-9 grades <24), but I was surprised to hear that in upper secondary school the number of students can be more than 40. Mr. Iltanen explained us that the main reason of this situation is money, in other words the more students they have the more money.
Also he told us things that were related to management in school. That was familiar question for us because when we were talking to principal of Seminaarin koulu he told a little bit about it. So we could concider style of management in Seminaarin koulu in comparison with Kaurialan Lukio. We found some similarities and differences like lower power distance between principals and teachers. Principals in this schools try to build encoraging atmosphere for teachers and students. Both say that they always try to support teachers and students and they are very proud of their staff. Collaboration between teachers in both schools is based on team work and teamwork is organised by different ways like team with teachers from different subjects or team with teachers from the same subject. But the differences concerned time that teachers can spend for the meetings because as Mr. Iltanen said in Kaurialan teachers can get money for participation. Seminaarin teachers organise this work voluntarily and they can decide what kind of topic they want to discuss and when they want to gather for meeting.
Also he told us things that were related to management in school. That was familiar question for us because when we were talking to principal of Seminaarin koulu he told a little bit about it. So we could concider style of management in Seminaarin koulu in comparison with Kaurialan Lukio. We found some similarities and differences like lower power distance between principals and teachers. Principals in this schools try to build encoraging atmosphere for teachers and students. Both say that they always try to support teachers and students and they are very proud of their staff. Collaboration between teachers in both schools is based on team work and teamwork is organised by different ways like team with teachers from different subjects or team with teachers from the same subject. But the differences concerned time that teachers can spend for the meetings because as Mr. Iltanen said in Kaurialan teachers can get money for participation. Seminaarin teachers organise this work voluntarily and they can decide what kind of topic they want to discuss and when they want to gather for meeting.
Also I was interested in cross-curricula themes because Mr. Iltanen said that they have difficulties with them. Cross-curricula themes should go through all the subjects and sometimes it is hard to take into account this themes when you teach topics of subject. It would be usefull to find out what they do to solve this problem.
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