{"id":73,"date":"2025-11-26T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:56:13","slug":"curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/studies\/curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turku International School follows the Finnish National Core Curriculum for Basic Education. The national curriculum <a href=\"https:\/\/eperusteet.opintopolku.fi\/#\/fi\/perusopetus\/419550\/tiedot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">can be found here <\/a>(in Finnish), while an overview in English<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oph.fi\/en\/education-and-qualifications\/national-core-curriculum-primary-and-lower-secondary-basic-education\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.oph.fi\/en\/education-and-qualifications\/national-core-curriculum-primary-and-lower-secondary-basic-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to English being the language of instruction at TIS, we have differentiated our English instruction. Teaching follows the objectives described in the Finnish National Core Curriculum for Basic Education, but the requirements are at a significantly higher level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-a22fffda-d1ae-435d-bfad-d5b22a152bf8\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/files\/2026\/06\/Curriculum-English-grades-1-6-Turku-International-School-.pdf\"><strong>Curriculum, English grades 1-6 Turku International School<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-d4bff03d-8a26-4e25-b1e2-6ac74ecaeb9f\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/files\/2026\/06\/Curriculum-English-grades-7-9-Turku-International-School.pdf\"><strong>Curriculum English grades 7-9 Turku International Schoo<\/strong>l<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Behavior assessment at TIS follows <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/files\/2025\/12\/Behaviour-Assessment-at-TIS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the principles outlined here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/files\/2026\/06\/Media-66.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/files\/2026\/06\/Media-66.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/files\/2026\/06\/Media-66-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/files\/2026\/06\/Media-66-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/files\/2026\/06\/Media-65.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/files\/2026\/06\/Media-65.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/files\/2026\/06\/Media-65-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/files\/2026\/06\/Media-65-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turku International School follows the Finnish National Core Curriculum for Basic Education. The national curriculum can be found here (in Finnish), while an overview in English can be found here. Due to English being the language of instruction at TIS, we have differentiated our English instruction. Teaching follows the objectives described in the Finnish National &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/studies\/curriculum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Curriculum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3702,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/214"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/tis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}