This is How We Do It: Supportive Measures in the Finnish Comprehensive School
The main principles of supportive measures at comprehensive school The support for learning and schooling is three-tiered according to the law – general support, intensified support and special support. A pupil can only receive support on one tier at the time. If the need for support changes, it is possible to move from one tier to another. It is in the best interest of the pupil that the need of support is monitored regularly. It is good to remember that there is no need for medical diagnosis to receive support according to the basic education law. Comprehensive schools do not support pupils based on diagnosis but based on actual needs of the pupils. The school always works based on pedagogical solutions. This means that the school should provide all the needed support despite medical diagnosis. Elina Kivelä reminds the guardians about this: “The supportive measures in health care are recommendations.…