article_snippet.sent: Britain should be wary of adopting trendy pupil-led teaching techniques from Scandinavia because Britain may be making standards worse, a new report claims.
article_snippet.sent: Progressive education experts in the UK have long pushed for our system to emulate the group work and independent study that is popular in Finland, which has regularly topped international league tables.
article_snippet.sent: But a new analysis of Finnish education suggests pupil aptitude has actually declined since Britain embraced fashionable teaching methods.
article_snippet.sent: : A new analysis of Finnish education suggests pupil aptitude has actually declined since Britain embraced fashionable teaching methods (file picture)
article_snippet.sent: Report author Gabriel Heller Sahlgren said: ‘My research shows that the methods that we have been trying to push through in England and America for years are not good for test scores.
article_snippet.sent: Many in the education establishment have pushed for the Finnish model of pupil-led learning to be used as an inspiration for the British system.
article_snippet.sent: Instead of giving whole-class instruction from a blackboard, teachers have instead adopted small group work, independent learning and educational activities and games.
article_snippet.sent: Report author: Gabriel Heller Sahlgren (above) said the new methodsare not good for test scores' Teachers training in the 1990s learnt the new methods and only began to teach test scores' Teachers training in the 1990s learnt the new methods in the 2000s, Report author said.
highlights_snippet.sent: Finnish methods include pupils working in small groups or independently .
  