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Innovation for Teaching and Organisational Partnership Development

To be part of the constantly and rapidly changing world around us, teachers and organisations need to develop their professional expertise. Our Department of Professional Development can support you with this goal.

Whether you are an educator investing in your own professional development or a manager looking for a training course for your employees, we offer a wide variety of courses to develop your professional competences. Read more

We provide

Vocational Teacher Education

Continuing education courses for teachers and organisation development

  • Courses from 1 to 30 ECTS credits
  • Consultation in strategically important areas according to the needs of your organisation

Some examples of our courses

  • Web-based learning and pedagogy
  • Guidance in learning and studies
  • Development of special and inclusive education
  • Competence-based exams
  • Recognition, assessment and accreditation of prior learning
  • English as a tool for teaching (including Teaching Knowledge Test)
  • Multiculturality
  • Management and leadership in organisations
  • Innovative teaching methods

To keep our courses contemporary and relevant, we are committed to developing them through various R&D projects and updating them to meet the changing needs of the educational and business environments. We have a long tradition of working with educational institutions and companies from a variety of professional sectors locally and nationally to provide innovative skills development courses.

Currently we are the only Cambridge ESOL exam centre in Finland offering Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT). Modular training for this test in Finland is available through us.

Further Information

Jari Kalavainen, Head of Continuing Education Services, +358 400 889 955, firstname.lastname@jamk.fi

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