FLARE
Flipped learning & AI for reflective education
M.Sc. Lauri Hellsten (linkedin.com/laurihellsten)
math and physics teacher in Espoon yhteislyseo
Physics teacher of the year 2025 (Finnish society of sciences and letters)
STEAM teacher of the year 2023 (MAOL ry)
ASEFClassNet EmpowerEd Project 2025
A key thought in learning
"..the greatest effects on students’ learning occur when teachers become learners of their own teaching and when students become their own teachers…
-John Hattie (Visible learning)
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Keep Your Microphone Muted 🎤 – Mute yourself when not speaking to avoid background noise.
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Turn On Your Camera 📷 – Helps create a more engaging and connected atmosphere.
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Use the Chat & Raise Hand ✋💬 – Share quick thoughts in chat or use “raise hand” before speaking to ensure smooth discussion.
Guidelines for online sessions
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Please share your name, country, and subjects you teach.
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Have you ever tried the Flipped Classroom (FC) or Flipped Learning (FL) approach?
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Have you used any AI tools in your teaching?
Who are we?
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FLIPPED LEARNING
Goals for the FLARE - project
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Equip educators with pedagogical strategies for effective flipped learning (FL).
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Introduce accessible AI tools to support content creation and reflective assessment design.
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Foster cross-cultural collaboration and the sharing of Open Educational Resources (OERs).
(40 participants from 18 different countries)
Timeline for next weeks
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1. session (25.8.)
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Goals for the FLARE - project
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Get to know each other
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Couple words on the Finnish Upper secondary school
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2. session (1.9.)
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Introduction to Flipped learning (FL), guided self-assessment and course design
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3. session (8.9.)
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Content creation for FL with AI tools
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4. session (15.9.)
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Showcase of Flipped learning and/or self-assessment materials
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Couple words on the Finnish Upper secondary school
(Stamp of Finland 1998, CC0)
Mathematics proficiency has declined and become more polarized.
"In practice, the difference between students means that the best 9th grade students are already able to handle tasks from the matriculation exam’s short syllabus, while the weakest students struggle with tasks corresponding to the level of 6th grade or even 3rd grade," summarizes leading evaluation expert Jari Metsämuuronen.
CC BY SA naosuke ii
1. Upper Secondary Schools Act
2. National core curriculum
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300 pages altogether
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13 pages math curriculum
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5 pages physics curriculum
3. Local curriculum (mostly same as #2)
4. Matriculation exam
What guides the teacher?
CC BY SA naosuke ii
Keypoints from the curriculum
- Focus on assessments for learning.
- Emphasis on the formative assessment.
- Student must show diverse knowledge on the contents and goals of a course for the courses summative assesment.
- Specific ICT skills as goals in STEM-courses
- Digital matriculation exam
- Use of programs (GeoGebra, LoggerPro, etc.) in STEM-courses.
- Problems involving large scales of different type of digital materials (real life data, videos, simulations, etc.) that couldn't be done in the paper exam.
Upper secondary school in Finland
1. semester
2. semester
3. semester
1. period
2. period
3. period
4. period
5. period
min. 75 courses and usually 3 years
usually 6 + 1 weeks
5 - 7 courses,
1 course = 3 x 75 min per week
Digital matriculation exam at the end, min. 5 exams
Law & Assessment
"A student´s assessment is to guide and encourage learning and develop the student's capacity for self-evaluation."
- Basic Education Act and the Upper Secondary Schools Act of 1998 (translated)
Formative assessment is emphasized in the law and curriculum.
Self-determination theory
Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose
Motivation
(Competence)
(Relatedness)
Daniel H. Pink The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
teachers
Autonomy
comes with
responsibility
IG: @espoonyhteislyseo
Couple photos from my school Espoon yhteislyseo
Thank you!
Ps. Remember to introduce yourself on the Padlet!