Fostering Future-Focused Education: The Findian Approach at Finland International School

By Shashank Goenka, Fatema Agarkar and Nikke Keskinen, FIS Race Course Board Members

As a Board that truly enjoys conversations about what the future of education looks like, we consciously consider engagements that are enriching for all the stakeholders at Finland International School, Race Course - the teachers, the parents and importantly, the children we nurture.

For us, it is about the community, and we often embrace different lens when considering important decisions for their growth. Whether it is about professional development for our teachers, checking-in with them to support their learning and development, driving them to think about their professional personal goals to power flexibility and open-mindedness, motivate them to pursue academic innovations or then the constant communication with parents, inviting them to share feedback be through meetings or events, and incorporating the thoughts in our plans and the empowerment we provide our children to communicate with confidence and on account of the creative planning and experiential learning that makes for a holistic week, every week.

Just today, we were commended on our passion to drive thinking and learning, constantly looking to improve and crafting enriching community engagements. As a parent, she shared that this was reassuring for her to see stakeholders so passionate about effective teaching learning engagements celebrating the Findian culture as we like to call it at Finland International School, Race Course.

For us, a school constitutes a learning environment to help every child blossom through a well designed study pathway, mentor and guide, encourage and reflect on our own approach, and we believe it is this collective effort that enabled us in a short time to create a niche for ourselves in the city with our all-rounder vision for families we nurture - through inclusion of music to theatre arts, from design & tech to textiles, from home economics to coding, from sports to thematic units that makes learning come  alive through each of our programs - Early Years, Primary Years, Middle School to High School. It’s the Finnish pedagogy that defines our pathway set in a local Indian context propelled by being an IB candidate school for the MYP, DP and CP programs.

It is this unique blend that makes FIS a ‘complete’ and unique learning experience that we fondly call the Findian Team.

We encourage you to spend time with us to get to know us up close and personal and be inspired by our vision of happy learners, brighter futures by allowing us to share how we do it everyday at FIS.


Board Members:
Shashank Goenka, Managing Director
Fatema Agarkar, Advisor & Mentor
Nikke Keskinen, COO, Founding Principal