On a learning curve

  A jump into teaching! This week, we had our first teaching session. Competence goals for this session were that we understand the meaning of learning in higher education and also understand how interaction affects learning. Wednesday’s webinar focused on pedagogical planning and group teaching sessions had been divided into four topics: 1: How do the official documents and regulations affect the planning of the teaching in your vocational field? Where can you find all this information?   2: What are the theories of learning and how do they affect the planning of the teaching in your particular field and in competence-based education? Choose at least one learning theory that you use in your teaching task!     3: How does student centered approach, personalization and competence-based system affect the planning?  Can you imagine different scenarios?   4: What is a pedagogical script? How can that help you promote learning ...

At the beginning May is always a pretty hectic period if you work for a school or educational institution. You make sure that your courses are marked and your students can graduate and at the same you prepare for the next busy period at the beginning of August, in order to be ready for the new and continuing students. Last May had an extra task pencilled into my diary, as I was booked to meet my tutors and fellow students at OAMK’s ProPeda-course for an online orientation. I couldn’t believe what a multicultural group we had! I think we had representation from all over the world (no kiwis though!) and that certainly promised an exciting year ahead of us. Prior to the online opening, we were given info on how to activate our OAMK IDs, course curriculum, and educational videos on competence-based learning. All in all a good set to familiarize oneself prior to the start of the studies. Following the online session, we were instructed to start self evaluation and fill in the Person...