Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Qualification Awarded and the Level of Qualification
Professional Guidance Counsellor Education(60 cr)
Contact Information
e-mail: taok.tamk@tuni.fi
Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Enrolment period
01.05.2024 - 31.07.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 31.07.2025
Credits
10 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
TAMK School of Professional Teacher Education
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Teachers
- Tarja Juurakko-Koskinen
- Outi Rantanen
Groups
-
24OPO
Objectives (course unit)
After completing the study unit, the student is able to
- reflect on their development, actions and work
- systematically develop their competencies and skills
- present and validate a theory-in-use related to their own counselling activities
- apply their knowledge of counselling to practice
- manage themselves and their work and take care of their well-being to support their work.
Content (course unit)
During the study unit, we will seek to answer the following questions:
- How do you develop your own competencies?
- How do you reflect on your own actions?
- What is the significance of well-being in the work of a counsellor?
- How do you act as a counsellor in practical contexts?
Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)
The student passes the study unit if they have demonstrated competencies described in the learning outcomes. If the student has not achieved the learning outcomes or supplemented their competencies in the manner agreed on, they will fail the study unit. The grounds for the assessment criteria are described in the document ‘Pedagogical principles in Professional guidance counsellor education’. The assessment criteria are derived from the learning outcomes presented in the implementation plan for the study unit.
Assessment scale
Pass/Fail
Enrolment period
01.05.2024 - 31.07.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 31.12.2024
Credits
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
TAMK School of Professional Teacher Education
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Teachers
- Tarja Juurakko-Koskinen
- Outi Rantanen
Person in charge
Outi Rantanen
Groups
-
24OPO
Objectives (course unit)
After completing the study unit, the student is able to
- understand the significance of meeting in counselling contexts and build dialogical interaction during the counselling
- take students’ situations into account and respect them in the counselling situation
- acknowledge varying and surprising situations and apply the counselling to them
- provide counselling with respect to students’ developmental stages
- acknowledge and respect the diversity of students in counselling contexts
- take cultural characteristics into account in counselling.
Content (course unit)
What is dialogical counselling?
- How does the background of the person receiving guidance affect the counselling?
- How is individuality taken into consideration in counselling?
- How does the diversity of the persons receiving guidance affect the implementation of the counselling?
Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)
The student passes the study unit if they have demonstrated competencies described in the learning outcomes. If the student has not achieved the learning outcomes or supplemented their competencies in the manner agreed on, they will fail the study unit. The grounds for the assessment criteria are described in the document ‘Pedagogical principles in Professional guidance counsellor education’. The assessment criteria are derived from the learning outcomes presented in the implementation plan for the study unit.
Assessment scale
Pass/Fail
Enrolment period
01.05.2024 - 31.07.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 31.03.2025
Credits
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
TAMK School of Professional Teacher Education
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Teachers
- Tarja Juurakko-Koskinen
- Outi Rantanen
Person in charge
Outi Rantanen
Groups
-
24OPO
Objectives (course unit)
After completing the study unit, the student is able to
- acknowledge the significance of cooperation with working life and offer counselling that strengthens this
- act as a counsellor in various environments both in educational institutions and outside them - identify the possibilities, requirements and risks of digitalisation for counselling and education and use appropriate information and communications technology solutions as a part of counselling
- monitor the international trends and developments in counselling and place guidance counselling in Finland on the international field
- operate in the international field of counselling and take the diverse starting points and ideas of the participants into account during discussions
- promote ‘internationalisation at home’ at work and in their community
- guide students in matters related to international mobility.
Content (course unit)
During the study unit, we will seek to answer the following questions:
- How are students guided in various environments?
- How do you provide functional counselling in cooperation with working life?
- What is the status of Finnish guidance counselling in the international field of counselling?
- How does internationality affect counselling?
Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)
The student passes the study unit if they have demonstrated competencies described in the learning outcomes. If the student has not achieved the learning outcomes or supplemented their competencies in the manner agreed on, they will fail the study unit. The grounds for the assessment criteria are described in the document ‘Pedagogical principles in Professional guidance counsellor education’. The assessment criteria are derived from the learning outcomes presented in the implementation plan for the study unit.
Assessment scale
Pass/Fail
Enrolment period
01.05.2024 - 31.12.2024
Timing
01.01.2025 - 31.07.2025
Credits
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
TAMK School of Professional Teacher Education
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Teachers
- Tarja Juurakko-Koskinen
- Katariina Hakala
- Kosti Nivalainen
- Outi Rantanen
Groups
-
24AEO
-
24OPO
Objectives (course unit)
After completing the study unit, the student is able to
- identify the significance of socially sustainable development in the everyday life of the organisation, the work of a guidance counsellor or special needs teacher, and cooperation; and assess this significance critically
- promote policies of socially sustainable development in their guidance work, work community and multidisciplinary networks
- identify power relationships when acting as an expert and act in an ethically sustainable way in all contexts.
Content (course unit)
During the study unit, we will seek to answer the following questions:
- How is the entity of socially sustainable development taken into consideration in teaching and guidance at an organisational and individual level?
- How is the agency and participation of a student strengthened in multidisciplinary cooperation?
- What do we mean by ‘expertise’ and ‘expert power’?
- How is socially sustainable development promoted through multidisciplinary cooperation?
Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)
The student passes the study unit if they have demonstrated competencies described in the learning outcomes. If the student has not achieved the learning outcomes or supplemented their competencies in the manner agreed on, they will fail the study unit. The grounds for the assessment criteria are described in the document ‘Pedagogical principles in professional Special Needs Teacher Education’ and ‘Pedagogical principles in Professional guidance counsellor education’. The assessment criteria is derived from the learning outcomes presented in the implementation plan for the study unit.
Assessment scale
Pass/Fail
Enrolment period
01.05.2024 - 30.07.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 28.02.2025
Credits
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
TAMK School of Professional Teacher Education
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Teachers
- Tarja Juurakko-Koskinen
- Outi Rantanen
- Hanne Mäki-Hakola
Person in charge
Outi Rantanen
Groups
-
24OPO
Objectives (course unit)
After completing the study unit, the student is able to
- implement counselling as a process and steer the discussion towards the goal
- ensure that the decisions made during counselling are those of the person receiving guidance
- ensure that a clear and concrete plan of action or an idea of how to move forward is prepared during the counselling discussion
- support the agency, choices and career progress of the person receiving guidance
- expertly guide students to seek further education or employment
- tell the difference between sharing information, advising and guidance counselling and know how to use them appropriately in their work
- apply the principles of individual, group and peer guidance in a justified manner.
Content (course unit)
During the study unit, we will seek to answer the following questions:
- What is functional counselling like?
- How is counselling structured in various contexts?
- How do you act in a goal-oriented way in a counselling situation?
- What is peer guidance?
Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)
The student passes the study unit if they have demonstrated competencies described in the learning outcomes. If the student has not achieved the learning outcomes or supplemented their competencies in the manner agreed on, they will fail the study unit. The grounds for the assessment criteria are described in the document ‘Pedagogical principles in Professional guidance counsellor education’. The assessment criteria are derived from the learning outcomes presented in the implementation plan for the study unit.
Assessment scale
Pass/Fail
Enrolment period
01.05.2024 - 31.07.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 30.04.2025
Credits
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
TAMK School of Professional Teacher Education
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Teachers
- Tarja Juurakko-Koskinen
- Outi Rantanen
Person in charge
Outi Rantanen
Groups
-
24OPO
Objectives (course unit)
After completing the study unit, the student is able to
- identify the content of legislation, regulations and instructions that direct education and counselling and their significance for the work of a guidance counsellor
- identify the structure, content and objectives of the education in order to guide the planning of students’ personal study paths
- obtain and use up-to-date and reliable information in counselling situations and when planning the counselling.
Content (course unit)
During the study unit, we will seek to answer the following questions:
- How should you take the regulations directing counselling activities into consideration?
- Which current information are counselling activities based on?
Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)
The student passes the study unit if they have demonstrated competencies described in the learning outcomes. If the student has not achieved the learning outcomes or supplemented their competencies in the manner agreed on, they will fail the study unit. The grounds for the assessment criteria are described in the document ‘Pedagogical principles in Professional guidance counsellor education’. The assessment criteria are derived from the learning outcomes presented in the implementation plan for the study unit.
Assessment scale
Pass/Fail
Enrolment period
01.05.2024 - 30.07.2024
Timing
01.08.2024 - 31.12.2024
Credits
5 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
TAMK School of Professional Teacher Education
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Professional Guidance Counsellor Education
Teachers
- Tarja Juurakko-Koskinen
- Outi Rantanen
- PEDA Virtuaalihenkilö
Person in charge
Outi Rantanen
Groups
-
24OPO
Objectives (course unit)
Objectives
After completing the study unit, the student is able to
- identify the key theories on counselling and career and justify the counselling methods selected based on the theories and practices
- acknowledge and understand the significance of theories-in-use as a foundation of their work.
Content (course unit)
During the study unit, we will seek to answer the following questions:
- Which theories are guidance and career counselling based on?
- How do the theories-in-use affect the work of a counsellor?
Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)
The student passes the study unit if they have demonstrated competencies described in the learning outcomes. If the student has not achieved the learning outcomes or supplemented their competencies in the manner agreed on, they will fail the study unit. The grounds for the assessment criteria are described in the document ‘Pedagogical principles in Professional guidance counsellor education’. The assessment criteria are derived from the learning outcomes presented in the implementation plan for the study unit.
Assessment scale
Pass/Fail