Author: Anniina Berg

  • Fresh Winds at Ralla!

    Fresh Winds at Ralla!

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    Ralla’s website and the RALLA platform have been revamped. Over the past year, we have made the overall service more consistent and the observation platform even more secure and user-friendly. With the update, you now log in to the observation tool via the website, which, in addition to the observation […]

  • The Old Application Will be Discontinued on November 30.

    The Old Application Will be Discontinued on November 30.

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    The old RALLA observation application will be discontinued on 30 November. You will receive login credentials and instructions for the new RALLA Observation Tool during October. Please contact us if you need assistance with the old application or with the new observation tool. You can log in to the old […]

  • Anu Lamminen

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    “Every child needs a warm and sensitive adult presence, interaction, and emotional support for their well-being.” As a special education teacher in early childhood education, strengthening children’s social-emotional skills and an accessible learning environment that is built around children’s interests and needs to be a physically, psychologically, socially and pedagogically […]

  • Anniina Berg

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    “Pedagogy that responds to a child’s individual needs and is of high quality requires the contribution of the entire team of professionals to be realized.” Early childhood education is, to the greatest extent, a multidisciplinary team effort, with each child, with their individual strengths, interests and needs, at its core. […]

  • Vilja Laaksonen

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    “Skills can always be learned. Therefore, seemingly small positive experiences in childhood can lead to big things in the future.” With friends, a child enters a world where play rules are negotiated, new experiences are shared through stories, and friendships are formed. Children thus require various interaction skills with their […]

  • Tiina Lämsä

    Tiina Lämsä

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    “Children can tell a lot about their daily lives, well-being, and learning when the right questions are asked with the right tools.” My passion is combining practical work and research. Over the years, I have been delighted to be involved in the multifaceted debate about early childhood education not only […]

  • A multidisciplinary team is a basic requirement for high-quality early childhood education

    A multidisciplinary team is a basic requirement for high-quality early childhood education

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    In this blog, we examine the power of collaboration in early childhood education, introduced by Anniina Berg. We focus on the importance of multidisciplinary teamwork for the quality of early childhood education and how the strengths of different professional groups together create a solid foundation for our children’s growth and […]

  • Ralla’s team is getting stronger with new experts: Welcome Anu Lamminen and Anniina Berg!

    Ralla’s team is getting stronger with new experts: Welcome Anu Lamminen and Anniina Berg!

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    Ralla’s team has been strengthened with two new experts. Anu Lamminen and Anniina Berg will bring their expertise to Ralla’s new projects, internationalization and early childhood education, inclusive everyday life and cooperative rehabilitation training. Changes in the team Changes took place at RALLA in the summer of 2023, as new […]

  • New year and new winds: Let’s join forces at RALLA

    New year and new winds: Let’s join forces at RALLA

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    The new year has begun again. The cold pinches the cheeks and thoughts begin to turn towards the coming spring. RALLA’s year starts sunny: we are launching new training online and live, and we are enthusiastically planning online courses. RALLA’s assessment tools have been implemented in educational institutions to support […]

  • What is child’s self-regulation and what does its development require?

    What is child’s self-regulation and what does its development require?

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    Jouni Veijalainen, PhD, works at the Faculty of Education, University of Helsinki, and teaches and lectures on child upbringing, psychological development and well-being around Finland. In his doctoral dissertation, he has examined how children’s different skills, emotional expressions and the coping mechanisms they describe are anchored in assessed self-regulation skills. […]