Teacher education programme of Finland

Abstract

In this paper we will descrive the system of teacher education of Finland. It is said that one of the reasons behind Finnish students' success in the PISA would be a high quality of school teachers. We Japanese have to know and learn the Finnish teacher education. Then we will get some suggestions from it. It is expected to have a good reflectoion to the Japanese education of mathematics and science. We will also descrive the general education system of Finland and the actual students' teaching practice in the teacher training school of Turku University.