TEACHER TRAINING SYSTEM IN FINLAND

The article generally describes the teacher training system in Finland, a brief history of its formation, presents the teacher training policy, approaches, traditions of the European education system in general and the Finnish education system in particular. It substantiates Finland's successes in the field of education with statistical data, presents the history of teacher training, lists the educational institutions where teachers are trained and trained, compares the approaches to the problem of teacher training in developed European countries and Finland, in particular the principles of teacher training, educational courses, structural, content, functional commonalities and differences of the programs. It presents the LUMA teacher training center is comprehensively, which, being intended for learning science subjects, plays a major role in the process of organizing the teacher training process. In the process of teacher training, the work of the LUMA center is also important in that it supports the lifelong learning of teachers in the continuing education system. An important feature of the Finnish experience is that it aims to teach students to solve research problems of a local nature. The novelty of the work is based on the fact that it reveals the pedagogical and social factors of teacher training in Finland, the national-state peculiarities of the educational policy.