Personnel Administration and Work Life Skills (3 op)

Osaamistavoitteet (Opintojakso)

After completing this course student
- knows the labour law, personnel administration and management and related regulations in working life
- can apply this knowledge to practical situations
- understand his/her role and responsibilites as employees and employers in the future training and work
- gets Occupational Health and Safety card after the official training and passing the exam

Sisältö (Opintojakso)

Labour law, personnel administration and related regulations, employment relationships and occupational safety legislation. Occupational Health and Safety card training is included into this course.

Aika ja paikka

Conjoint face-to-face processing between participants takes place in class room according to syllabus. Peer-groups decide to themselves the place and time for the peer-group processing, during those weeks which has been agreed to. It is also possible for teacher and students to construct timetable during the course, if need occurs.

Tenttien ja uusintatenttien ajankohdat

An exam will be organised only upon joint agreement between responsible teacher and course attendants. Baseline is that there is no exam on this course.

Arviointimenetelmät ja arvioinnin perusteet

The course will be assessed based on a written peer group work (=portfolio). All the rehearsals during the course will affect on the course note if connected to portfolio and presented as part of it. Group size, reporting, modus operandi, all will be closer discussed on first classes. NOTICE! With a joint agreement between teacher and students any part of the course can become subject to modifications. The grading will take place by teacher reflecting the delivered final portfolio against Bloom's taxonomy - depending which level the peer-group members have achieved with their portfolio, decides for the note.

Arviointiasteikko

0-5

Oppimateriaalit

Processive learning, interactive discussions, rehearsals (written & oral). Can include also other type of activities

Opiskelijan ajankäyttö ja kuormitus

Course entity is thus planned that student's time consumption equals at each time Tamk's preset requirement. Face-to-face occurring class room educational activities is only a part of the students' work load. Another part student work is all the processing that takes via peer groups, e.g. in form of discussion, analytical processing of information and additionally continuos development of course report (=portfolio) throughout the course. Third part students' work is individually performed data mining and principles of knowledge managing

Sisällön jaksotus

Lectures & peergroup weeks take turns during entire course - however, changes to this may occur due to overlapping of excursions, Tamk-activities or other curriculum reasons. In such cases teacher usually informs peergroups by email or other, jointly agreed manner.

Toteutuksen valinnaiset suoritustavat

Should the group noting be "rejected - 0", the peer group can re-edit their written report twice. After third hand-over of the report the entire course will be considered as failed, after which the entire course is to be taken anewly. Missing, single attendances can be substituted by participating any other later remittance on the same course. Out of a special reason a single student can equiponderate mangel on performance with an assignment individually agreed with responsible teacher. Baseline is however (taking notice of the networking-, interaction- and organisation skills) that this course will be carried out in form of a peer group work - this is to be understood as an emphasis towards individual responsibility acting as a productive member of an peer group.

Harjoittelu- ja työelämäyhteistyö

No practical training is foreseen, but it is preferred, that participants actively promote during the entire course their connections and understanding to comply with course outline. All the co-operative measures towards industrial, economic and business life such as direct contacts, interviews, data collecting or own work life practices are considered as additional value for course accomplishing.

Kansainvälisyys

It is preferred, that participants actively promote during the entire course their international connections and networking. Additionally can be agreed on separate arrangement for students to acquire special knowledge or information.

Lisätietoja opiskelijoille

Entire course is strictly focused on peer group working; used pedagogy is processive learning. As active mind setting as possible, parallelly working as a group, is worthwhile - there is a strong correlation between better grading and intensive group work. All the group member will receive equal note of the course. Each group defines their working rules, which teammembers are obliged to follow the entire duration of the course. Additionally, each group is entitled to expell any fellow teammate that is not honouring jointly established rules.

Arviointikriteerit - hylätty (0) (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

Student has not participated sufficiently the minimum required amount on face-to-face classes / written report fails to comply with preset requirements / written report is quantitatively and qualitatively insufficient, nor does it meet the course learning objectives (Observe: any of these issues alone will lead to failed note = 0) - in other words, student's have not been able to provide any proof of competence which could have been evaluated between 1-6 in Blooms Taxonomy

Arviointikriteerit - tyydyttävä (1-2) (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

Student will achieve the minimum acceptable level by: participating the minimum required amount on face-to-face classes / written report includes the essential content (ref: study plan) / student (or /-s) prove with their written output (both content and form) to possess basic knowledge & skills, parallelly presenting and emphasizing information relevant to objectives / regarding other requirements, please refer evaluations criteria (available in course e-folder) - in other words, students have proven that they possess a wide range of information regarding course's topics / contents (Bloom's taxonomy level 1) and that they also understand the meaning of all the possessed information (Bloom's taxonomy level 2)

Arviointikriteerit - hyvä (3-4) (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

Student will achieve this level by: participating the minimum required amount on face-to-face classes / written report includes the essential content (ref: study plan) / student (or /-s) prove with their written output (both content and form) to possess good knowledge & skills, parallelly combining already existing, original material with by themselves provided, value-adding information or knowledge / / regarding other requirements, please refer evaluations criteria (available in course e-folder) - in other words, students have proven that they are also (in addition to Bloom's levels 1 and 2) capable of applying all the acquired knowledge in to them relevant, working life situations (Bloom's taxonomy level 3) and that they are capable of analysing, breaking information into sub-parts and drawing conclusions based on this data (Bloom's taxonomy level 4)

Arviointikriteerit - kiitettävä (5) (Ei käytössä, kts Opintojakson Arviointikriteerit ylempänä)

Student will achieve this level by: participating the minimum required amount on face-to-face classes / written report includes the essential content (ref: study plan) / student (or /-s) prove with their written output (both content and form) to possess exceptional knowledge & skills, parallelly combining already existing, original material with by themselves provided, value-adding information or knowledge in such a manner that this process will provide entirely new information (deductions, implications, applications, discoveries, summaries)/ / regarding other requirements, please refer evaluations criteria (available in course e-folder) - in other words, students have proven that they master all the earlier described Bloom's taxonomy levels (1-4) and are additionally capable of innovating and differentiating in their work all the acquired knowledge (Bloom's taxonomy level 5) - The highest level possible to acquire is Bloom's taxonomy level 6 which is to state that learner has obtained the highest level maturity possible - meaning that the learner can also critically observe his or hers learning process's outcomes and is autonomically capable of enhancing his or hers cognitive mental schemas, further to enhance learning efficiency