Teaching Practice (10cr)

Objectives (course unit)

After completing the course, the teacher student is able to
- work in teaching and instruction positions in their own field
- implement, develop and assess teaching situations close to working life
- operate in applicable networks of vocational education.

Content (course unit)

During the course, we will seek answers to the following questions:
• What are the learning and working environments for a teacher?
• How to choose, justify, and implement learning, guidance, and evaluation methods suitable for a given situation and environment while taking into consideration student activeness?
• How to design and implement learning processes in different learning environments utilising the working life and networks?
• How to take learners’ various challenges into account and improve their inclusion and wellbeing?
• How are future orientation and societal responsibility visible in a teacher’s work?

Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)

Knowing:
Structuring the relationships between the phenomena and concepts covered during the course. Applying, explaining, comparing, and analysing contents from the viewpoint of a vocational teacher.

Teacher Student:
• Describes their own practical knowledge (idea of humans, learning, and knowledge), and uses it to justify the method choices they make in teaching, guidance and evaluation
• Has a vast knowledge of teaching methods and learning environments suitable for their field
• Knows the most important legislation and documentation governing the teachers in their own working environment

Doing:
Being able to plan and choose suitable methods for their work and justify their choices as a vocational teacher. Applying the theory taught in the course (knowing) when planning, implementing, and evaluating the learning situations.

Teacher Student:
• Plans and implements a diverse and coherent learning process in a chosen environment
• Applies different teaching, guidance, and evaluation methods in their own field
• Uses different learning environments and networks when planning and implementing their learning situations (e.g. working life collaboration, digitalisation, personalisation)

Developing as a teacher:
Considering, evaluating, and developing issues from their own and their organisation’s viewpoints. Collaborating responsibly and being ready to develop communication skills. Recognising and following the ethical principles of a teacher’s work.

Teacher Student:
• Works as a teacher in an ethical manner and recognising their position of power
• Evaluates their own work as a vocational educator
• Works constructively in collaboration networks and gives/receives feedback
• Evaluates the financial, sustainable, and well-being promoting impacts of their own work
• Identifies their own strengths and areas of development as a vocational educator following the principles of continuous learning

Location and time

Pääosa harjoittelusta tehdään opettajaopiskelijan omassa koulussa tai muissa aidoissa oppmisympäristössä,

Exam schedules

ei tenttejä

Assessment methods and criteria

Itse-, ja vertaisarviointi, opettajatuutorin antama arviointi.. Arviointi on osaamisperustainen.

Assessment scale

Pass/Fail

Teaching methods

Opintojaksolla käytetään pääosin itsenäistä työskentelyä erilaisissa oppimisympäristöissä, toiminnan suunnittelua, opetuksen suunnittelua ja toteutusta, havaintojen ja opetuksen reflektointia. Työskentelyä ohjataan myös verkkoympäristössä. Sisältö muotoutuu opiskelijan tarpeiden mukaisesti, lähtökohtana osaamistavoitteet.

Student workload

10 x 26,7h

Content scheduling

Sisältö muotoutuu opiskelijan tarpeiden mukaisesti, esim.
Valmistautuminen
Harjoittelusuunnitelma
Tuntisuunnitelma
Oma opetus
Ohjauskeskustelut opettajatuutorin kanssa
Opetuksen havainnointi ja palaute
Reflektoiva raportointi

Completion alternatives

Osaamisen näyttö

Practical training and working life cooperation

Kehittämiskoulut ja muut ammatilliset oppilaitokset