Of course, Finland has great assets - phonetic language very easy to assimilate for children, homogeneous population - but above all it rests on an original management: the heads of establishment are autonomous. "Marie-Aude Boucher, principal deputy of the Franco-Finnish lycée in Helsinki and a former professor in Seine-Saint-Denis, is the headmistress who recruits the teachers, and that changes everything!" The whole team is associated and mobilized behind Settlement project. "

Consequence: highly valued socially and paid between 10 and 20% more than in France, the job of teacher attracts the cream of students. Once in office, they have great freedom to adapt the teaching and work in teams. They spend an average of two to three hours a week in a meeting to discuss the classes, the students in difficulty, the highlights of the school ... Practices that are still too rare in our latitudes.

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