Everyone knows that Finland is said to have the best education system in the world. But what makes them different from another countries? Are there secret formulas for the well-achieved students that the country has?

The author of Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms, Timothy D. Walker takes us to his journey as he began his search for those answers. Timothy was a teacher in U.S. and he was a hard-working one in his school. But at one point, he experienced a great stress due to this job. He was overwhelmed by his work at school and couldn't enjoy teaching to the fullest anymore. 

An opportunity showed up when he had the chance to teach in one of elementary school in Finland. He took the opportunity and began his new life as a teacher in Finland. 

This book was told in the perspective of Timothy as a total stranger to Finland's famous education system. The more time he spend time in his class, meeting with his students and teacher colleges, the more he discovers so many new and, sometimes, wild ideas that challenge his current principles about how education works.

Timothy takes Raj Raghunathan's ideas of 4 recipes of happiness: involvement, independece, mastery, and mindset; and add the fifth recipe which is well-being. These 5 core ideas is what he thinks make Finland's education as excel as it is and what make up the whole book. 

This book is a very educative, inspiring, and fun book to read. Aspiring teachers should check this book as it will definitely sparks your ideas to make a joyful and, practically, more efficient class for your students.