1. Metsokangas Comprehensive School

2. Basics: School started at autumn 2008
69 teachers (classroom teachers 38, subject teachers 22, special education teachers 9, student council, headmaster and 2 deputy headmasters)
13 school assistants
Four special groups in inclusion/integration
Public school, planned for 550 students
School started at autumn 2008
Grades 1 – 9, age range 7 – 15
1120 students, number of students is still growing
904 students on grades 1-6
188 students on 7-9
28 students in Special needs groups

3. Facilities Isometso 2008-09 Pikkumetso 2013 Ukkometso 2018-19
Korpimetso 2016

4. Mission of school Vision: “Our Metsokangas!”
Our first priority is to teach future skills to our students without forgetting basic skills
4C-skills (creativity, collaboration, communication, critical thinking)
Cooperation between school and parents
transparency of learning
Teamteaching / collaborative teaching
Shared leadership and teamwork
We want educate our students learn these skills
We want to parents be aware of what happens our school. Students share their school work with parents eg. In Metsokangas fair which happens once a year in spring term students share their work via blogs and Youtube channel

5. Shared leadership and teamwork
Leader Group (Headmaster, 2 Deputy Headmasters)
Planningroup (Leadergroup + 4 Teamleaders)
4 Stratetical Teams (Pedagogical, Safety, ICT and Everyday life)
7 Operational teams (based on fysical location in the building)
The Basic idea is that practical teams work with everyday issues agree and make decionsions about them flexsibly

6. CoreMetso –teams (YMT) STRATEGICAL LEVEL
each team including several working-groups, team-leader responsible for coordinating
PEDAMetso
Curriculum and NPDL
Pedagogical cafes
Learning enviroments
International affairs
Library
Assessment
SECURITYMetso
Security
Drilling and training
Staff well-being
Student well-being:
ICTMetso
Curriculum and NPDL
Everyday ICT-help,
Hardware
Software and training
e-material
Homepages
Project-coordination
EVERYDAYLIFEMetso
Celebrations and happenings
Student Council
Liikkuva koulu-project
Everyday life practices
KiVa (Antibullying-program)
Projektitiimit
Student support-team
special education
KiVa
Leadership-team:
Principal and debuty-principals (2)
Planning-team
4 teamleaders
Leadership-team
METSO –localteams (MST) OPERATIONAL LEVEL
Teamleader and debuty
MetsoA2
MetsoCD
KorpiMetso1
KorpiMetso2
MetsoB1/2
PikkuMetso
Ohjaajat
Horisontal-vertical substanskoordinaation
lingua
science
culture and student counselling
art & craft and exercise

7. Our strategies: Co-teaching
Two to four teachers and their students
Teacher and special education teacher
Project-based learning and collaborative learning
Pedagogical use of ICT:
Collaboration and using social media tools
Cooperation in horizontal and vertical directions
Inclusion and integration between special and other groups
Staff plan and recruiting based on teachers´core competensies
Core competencies: self knowledge and self control, social skills, conceptual skills, pedagogical and technical skills,

8. Pedagogical use of ICT
ICT is integrated with other subjects – No separate ICT classes
Different ICT skills included in the projects (power points, videos, radio plays, time lines, using mapping programs, comic strips, blogs)
Classblog example: Metso.weebly.com
Youtube channel of Metsokangas school in active use
4C-skills (creativity, communication, critical thinking, collaboration)

9. Technology Wi-Fi in use at whole school
10 Lapptop/tablet trolleys each including laptops
232 lapstops/tablets + 30 table-PCs
Student/device ratio 4.27:1
NXT Lego robots
Learning platform Office 365
Android, and W8-tablets and smartphones

10. Inclusion and integration
Inclusion model (normal class + special needs class together)
Special needs children integrated in normal lessons
Individualized aims for learning
Adults supporting student`s learning
Students study same topics together

11. Supporting structures
Inhouse training (pedagogical cafes)
Resource teacher and 4 special teachers working with normal classes
ICT- support team, ”everyday help desk”
ICT-team, planning
Co-teaching
Digimetso (electronic material bank)
OneNote, Onedrive

12. Projects
Taking part in different technology projects outside the school:
ITEC (run by European schoolnet in 17
countries). Innovative teaching& designing a
future classroom& learning new ICT skills
INNOKAS (a Finnish project run by The Board of
Education). Innovative teaching methods and
implementing the use of robots in learning and
teaching
MICROSOFT Partners in Learning and New Pedagogies for Deep Learning
SCHOOL IN MOVE (Liikkuva koulu)

13. Flexible classrooms

14. Multipurpose facilities

15. Newest building ”Korpimetso”
For 400 students (grades 2-5)
Open learning spaces
Four modules
Ready for use on July 2016

16. Korpimetso 2016