Teaching Practice (10 cr)

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

Assessment scale

0-5