Maarit Rossi

Finnish teacher and 2016 Global Teacher Prize top 10 finalist discusses the key components of deep learning.

My guest today is Maarit Rossi. Maarit represented Finland in the 2016 Global Teacher Prize finals. In this interview we are going to be discussing Math but even if that is not what your specialize in, all teachers can learn from the principles she and the Finnish education system use to engage students in learning. Maarit has written 9 Math text books and when her school was selected to take the international PISA test, it scored some of the highest in the world. And the students did this with shorter school days and less testing than most other countries. Some people in the international community were interested to figure out how this was possible and encouraged Maarit to make her teaching methods available to the rest of the world. She has spent years converting her books and techniques into an online curriculum to make her ideas available to everyone. In this interview we talk about the key components to get students learning at the deepest levels, how pathstomath.com was born plus the benefits and challenges to creating more classroom group discussions. So please enjoy this conversation with Maarit Rossi.