Study Guide

Objectives

The core competence fields of teachers’ work are assessment competence, cultural competence, teaching and facilitation competence, partnership competence and wellbeing competence. They form a framework for all competence objectives.

Teacher students
- are able to conceptualise their observations on learning environments and evaluate them
- assess curriculum-based teaching in different learning environments
- assess the role of different operating environments from the viewpoint of students’ learning and facilitation
- analyse communication in educational institution practices based on theoretical concepts
- can use different communication channels and tools and assess them from the pedagogical viewpoint.

Content

The learning environment can be understood as a place, room, community or operating practice where we learn to operate, understand new things or assess and solve different situations and problems.

Organisations’ operating cultures consist of operating and behavioural models as well as official or unofficial rules, values and principles. Educational institutions’ official and actual operating cultures are not necessarily the same. By paying attention to the operating culture, it is possible to affect learning, facilitation and development of the whole community’s operation.

Key questions:
How can different operating environments be assessed and changed to learning environments?
What are authentic, constructivist and inclusive learning environments like and what are learning environments which support diverse learning?
What wellbeing promoting elements do good learning environments have?
How is educational institution´s pedagogical and inclusive operation assessed and developed?
What forms of cooperation and communality are sustained?
What is a hidden curriculum and how does it affect teachers’ work?
What does educational institution´s operating culture mean and how does it direct teachers’ work?
How are educational institutions’ operating cultures connected to wellbeing, occupational wellbeing and engagement in studies?
How has sustainable development been considered in educational institution´s operating culture?