Collection: Hanna Maunumäki

Hanna Maunumäki, M.Ed., is a dual-qualified class teacher and Finnish language teacher. She worked as a class teacher in Kokkola for three years and has served as principal of Torkinmäki School since 2008.

Torkinmäki School functions as the teacher training school for class teacher education at the University Consortium of Chydenius in Kokkola. In connection with her role as principal, Maunumäki has been involved for 15 years in supervising, managing, and developing teaching practice as well as in student admissions.

She took part in the negotiation and planning processes for the lifecycle procurement of Torkinmäki School and daycare center, preparing among other things the pedagogical plan together with the staff as well as the criteria for evaluating the quality of design solutions. The new daycare center and comprehensive school building, implemented as a lifecycle project, was completed in 2017.

Her international experience includes school collaboration projects with the United States and Lithuania. Maunumäki is particularly interested in the development of co-teaching, comprehensive school pedagogy, educational leadership, and pedagogy-based school building design. Together with a colleague, she has developed models for comprehensive school pedagogy and joint leadership of schools and daycare centers.