Study Guide

Objectives

Teacher student
- evaluates various operating and learning environments in vocational education and their affordances for learning
- analyzes different operating cultures in educational institutions and their impact on teachers' work
- participates actively in and builds new professional networks that support their teaching
- evaluates their own and others' actions in the multi-professional networks of their educational institutions and in their own field of education
- knows the transitional stages of their field of education
- possesses group and team work skills and recognizes both their own
strengths and areas for improvement as a group member
- can act as an instructor of workplace learning or practical training
- understands the importance of working life as a learning partner

Content

Contents
How can my field of education create learning environments which promote learning?
How can a teacher have an impact on different learning and working environments as well as the construction of the operational culture in an educational institute?
How can accessibility be advanced in learning environments?
What multi-disciplinary and multi-professional networks help teachers in their work?
What kind of collaboration can be created between educational institutions and the parties who carry out education and facilitation outside the educational institutions (including working life collaboration).

Assessment criteria, pass/fail

Pass: Teacher student
- combines theoretical data with their own experiences and observations while evaluating how the operation and learning environments and practices contribute to learning
- reflects their observations, actions and experiences and evaluates their significance to their own competences and knowledge
- participates actively in the group learning process by sharing expertise, searching for information and collaboratively creating knowledge at online and at face to face
- analyzes and evaluates their learning results and choices made
- can describe how they can utilize their professional networks for the benefit of their students' learning

Fail: Teacher student
- describes theoretical knowledge and experiential knowledge and observations separately
- discussion is shallow, presents disconnected facts and/or paraphrases literature
- does not participate in the group processes actively and/or has not submitted the learning tasks according to instructions
- cannot plan their own learning and needs constant support from the teachers
- lacks professional networks or fails to make the connection between their professional networks and teaching