Federico Malpica

CEO

TeachersPRO (Sinapsia Group Finland Oy)

Turku, Finland

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TeachersPRO is an AI-powered teacher development platform, developed in collaboration with the University of Turku, seeking partnerships, testing, and alliances

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TeachersPRO (Sinapsia Group Finland Oy)

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Turku, Finland

TeachersPRO is a community-driven platform based on a unique post-course instructional design in 3 circles of support (peer-to-peer, learning analytics for institutional support, and AI Mentoring) that ensures transfer to professional practice through Learning Challenges within a framework of 16 critical competencies and more than 100 skills based on the best of Finnish pedagogy for teacher professional development. This platform allows individual or collective Learning Challenges to be carried out, through cutting edge content for dozens of skills, a peer-to-peer evidence review system and access to thousands of good real practices of other teachers in the international TeachersPRO community that currently has more than 30,000 users. Access to this content is granted permanently and forever to all users in their own teaching portfolio, where all their historical activity and professional development are also recorded. This Professionalization Virtual Environment (PVE) for teachers includes recognition in the form of badges, metrics, academic diplomas, and the possibility of certifying teaching competencies with University of Turku (Finland). For educational entities, it includes a powerful tool for tutoring, mentoring, and coaching of each teacher, through access to real evidence of his/her learning achievement in a portfolio, thus guaranteeing the transfer to their professional practice. This solution has proven its effectiveness, being able to increase the transfer to practice from the usual 10-15% in traditional teaching training to 70-80% in the first year (Malpica, F. & Navareño, P. , 2018).

About me

Dr. Federico Malpica is an educational expert with a Ph.D. in Educational Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, specializing in Quality and Educational Innovation Processes. His academic background includes a Master’s degree in Management and Leadership of Educational Institutions and a Postgraduate degree in Training Quality.

He began his career as a primary and secondary school teacher in Mexico and later joined the management team of the same institution. Since 1998, Dr. Malpica has worked internationally as a researcher, consultant, and trainer in educational quality, innovation, leadership, and change management.

Dr. Malpica is the founder and director of Sinapsia Group Finland, an organization based in Turku, Finland, focused on research, development, and implementation of solutions for improving educational processes and teacher professional development. He is the creator and developer of TeachersPRO, a community-driven platform based on a unique post-course instructional design (peer-to-peer, learning analytics for institutional support, and AI Mentoring) that ensures transfer to professional practice through Learning Challenges within a framework of 16 critical competencies and more than 100 skills, based on the best of Finnish pedagogy for teacher professional development.

He also co-directs the Escalae Chair of Educational Innovation and is a board member of EdTech Finland.

Throughout his career, he has led interventions in over 1,000 educational institutions, working with more than 20,000 teachers in 11 countries. His consultancy experience extends to collaborating with institutions like the University of Northampton, the Government of Catalonia, Mexico’s Ministry of Education, the World Bank, the Organization of American States, and UNESCO.

Dr. Malpica has published numerous works, including books like "8 Ideas Clave: Calidad de la Práctica Educativa" [8 Key Ideas on the Quality of Educational Practice] and "Acompañamiento Integral Educativo." [Comprehensive Educational Support]. He is also a guest lecturer and speaker at international conferences on educational topics.

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