Findings from teacher practice to colleagues

I presented my findings, thoughts and suggestions from teaching practice to the staff at the department this morning. The overall response was good, and led to many interesting discussions. 

These are in Finnish, but google translate can help you!
 
MENETELMÄT

- Collaborative Learning / Yhteisöllinen oppiminen

- Learning goals - Oppilaat asettavat 3 oppimistavoitetta aluksi. Mittaus kurssin aikana ja lopuksi.

- Partnering (Marc Prensky): Oppimisen ohjaaminen (coaching), oppilaan vastuu omasta oppimisesta.

- "Reserach on computer": tunnilla vastaus yksin, kaksin tai tiimissä. Vastaukset blogiin, lyhyt johtopäätösten esittely (2 min) 

- Reflektointi - Mielipiteet esiin ja myös yhteisön tietoisuuteen.

OPPIMISYMPÄRISTÖT

OPTIMA  - Blogi (Päiväkirja) Doing business in Asia(DBA)

Google/Blogger - Suljettu Blogi Doing business in Europe (DBE)

Skype - Virtuaalinen Haastattelu 

Twitter - Oman maan seuranta (henkilö, yritys)

HYVÄKSI TODETTU

- "Reserach on computer" ihan jees.

- Multimedialuokka toimii tiimityöskentelyyn 

- liike, juoksu, "aseta itsesi kartalle" kurssin huipennus.

- google drive collaboratiiviseen kirjoittamiseen (ei testattu kurssin aikana, mutta mieli teki)

EHDOTUKSIA ILMAAN

- aina valmis tiimityöskentelytila jossa surffilaudat

- Yhteisöllinen oppiminen 

Opiskelijat ja opettajat: yhteistyö toisen opetuspisteen tai oppilaitoksen kanssa blogin muodossa

Opettajat: Kurssimaterialipankki josta ideoita

Managing people

A blog can be an great platform for showing visually tasks to do in class. This was done on very short notice for the Managing People course and served the purpose well.

What is your dream job?

1. Think about your dream job. What 3 areas would you need to develop to get the job? 5 min

2, Tell your partner about your dream job and what the three things you need to develop are. 5 min

3. Finally, tell the others what your friend wants to be and what the 3 areas your friend needs to develop. 5 min

reflection 23 of May

Today I have felt like a student. It's a nice change after being mainly a teacher candidate during the last few months. It's not easy to be a student, quite tiring actually to put the whole year and VOC2 into perspective.

It has been a journey to all my studymates' whereabouts as well. We discussed in pairs about our study plans and looking back into particularities during the year. I got another lesson about the beauty and difficulty of listening, because we presented our pairs study plan to the others and ha-haa: it is not always so easy to remember a conversation that has taken place a few minutes ago.

Lots of feedback back and forth. About the different themes of VOC2 - it was nice to read and hear what the others thought about the theme and our course. It was better than expected.totally

Self-evaluation of competence related to Dreyfys model of skill aquisition was our last task. I quite enjoyed the task, but my brain seems breezed. Deeper analysis did unfortunately not take place.   

Fourth block

South Korea. I want to go to Korea. I loved the class about Korea, mostly South Korea. I think I even started the class one minute before the set starting time. One reason was that we had a scheduled skype meeting with a trade promotion agency and I wanted to give the basics about the country before that. The other reason was that I had talked with my friend who has lived in Korea and had learnt a lot from her about the country. Especially Korea's industrial development and society is very interesting.

Skype went smoothly. Ok - that was an over statement. It was my first ever public skype so naturally there is some fine tuning. We did not get the sound right so we had to wait, but with the help from IT we got it fixed. I have learnt that there are always some technical difficulties, and the best solution is always to stay calm and try to find an alternative. This time, we did not need to execute the alternative plan.

We also watched a video about Samsung work culture which I found interesting. That has become my mantra - if I think it is interesting, students probably find it interesting too. Never underestimate the students and "this could be useful for You" is often not interesting to the students.