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Samagra Shiksha State Project Director (SPD) B. Srinivasa Rao connected Friday said that the Government of Andhra Pradesh was sending 29 teachers, who received the State Best Teacher Awards during past year’s Teachers’ Day celebrations, to Finland to exposure them to internationally acclaimed teaching methodologies.
Addressing the teachers astatine the “International Professional Development Programme”, jointly organised by the School Education Department and Samagra Shiksha astatine Andhra Loyola College successful Vijayawada, Mr. Rao said the inaugural reflected the government’s committedness to the nonrecreational improvement of teachers successful authorities schools.
Describing teachers arsenic “change agents” susceptible of transforming Andhra Pradesh’s acquisition system, helium urged them to survey Finland’s accent connected foundational and schoolhouse education, accommodate the champion practices to section requirements, and instrumentality them nether the envisioned “Andhra Model of Education”. He besides encouraged the participants to service arsenic mentors and assets persons for chap teachers aft their return.
“The authorities believes this inaugural volition importantly lend to providing world-class prime acquisition to students crossed the State,” helium said.
The selected teachers are undergoing a three-phase grooming programme. As portion of the archetypal phase, which volition proceed until June 17, 2026, acquisition experts from the University of Turku, Finland, are imparting grooming connected modern teaching methodologies.
The Finnish squad comprises Educational Technology Specialist Ari Koski, Principal (Basic Education) Sari Isokyto-Sinjoi, and Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) adept Suvi Puolakka. The sessions absorption connected themes specified arsenic ‘Learning done Joy and Play’ and ECCE, introducing innovative pedagogical approaches for foundational learning.
During the 2nd phase, scheduled from August 17 to 26, 2026, the award-winning teachers volition undertake an eight-day survey sojourn to the Finnish cities of Turku and Rauma. They volition observe schoolroom practices firsthand done visits to aboriginal puerility acquisition centres, pre-schools and teacher-training schools.
After returning from Finland, the teachers volition instrumentality school-based projects inspired by their learning. Faculty members from the University of Turku volition supply continuous guidance, mentoring and feedback done online sessions to enactment the effectual implementation of these projects.
The programme was attended by V. Satish Reddy, Coordinator of the Supporting Andhra’s Learning Transformation (SALT) project, a large World Bank-backed acquisition inaugural being implemented by the Andhra Pradesh Department of School Education, too officials and unit of SCERT and Samagra Shiksha.
