Swedish

The contents and the objectives come from the Finnish national core curriculum but there is room also for many kinds of activities and topics that are chosen based on the students' needs and wishes.

On this site you can also find some useful links for Swedish studies, tips for learning languages (and especially Swedish) and a glossary for the most common grammatical terms used on the lessons with examples.

Assessment of the Swedish studies

The studies and assessment are based on the Finnish national core curriculum and its objectives. During the studies we are also using the IB Language Acquisition criteria on Emergent level. The criteria are used as one way to ensure varied assessment methods. They can be used as such or the teacher can create a task specific assessment rubric based on them.

Even the work during the lessons, completing the homework etc. are a part of the assessment. When assessing the lesson work, the teacher follows the Ressu guidelines for assessing working.

In the language subjects all of the most essential objectives (understanding spoken and written texts, producing spoken and written texts - all the objectives T5-9) are covered every year and in Swedish even the objectives T1-4 are all part of the 9th grade studies. This means that when giving the final grade, the emphasis is on the 9th grade and the language competence, cultural knowledge and multidisciplinary skills the student has reached by the end of it, but when needed also the 8th grade can be taken into account.

The final assessment is based on the curriculum and the level descriptions for grades 9, 8, 7 and 5 given in there. The descriptions can be read in Finnish at https://eperusteet.opintopolku.fi/#/fi/perusopetus/419550/vuosiluokkakokonaisuus/428782/oppiaine/605637

A very unofficial and quick translation can be found in the following PowerPoint slides