On a learning curve

  INTERNATIONAL AND MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCE (1 CR) COMPETENCE GOAL     15. You are familiar with the internationalisation strategies and practises of higher education.     ASSESSMENT  CRITERIA   15a) You examine internationalization practices in higher education.     We have all received a nice dose of this topic in practice during the past 6 months here at OAMK. We also already briefly touched this topic when we discussed Eco-social culture at the end of November webinar. Below the   emphasis will be on internationalisation strategies and practises in higher education and how this impacts us teachers. World is obviously changing and globalising very rapidly. In a global market place it is not only goods that move from one country to another but also people. There is also an acute shortage of workers in some sectors of the industry in Finland and work-based immigration seems to be one possible solution to this. One of ...

  Competence in Eco-social Culture and Sustainable future   13. You will understand the principles and values involved in eco-social understanding of culture and sustainable development.   Autumn’s last teaching topic was Eco-social culture and sustainable development. A huge subject and certainly one that had out group scratching our heads possibly more than any of the previous teaching tasks. You as a teacher might wonder what has sustainable development got to do with pedagogical studies. Well, hopefully following our session all students had gained an understanding why. We discussed the sustainable development goals for education, how Agenda 2030 impacts, not only institutions, but also us individual teachers. We also gave participants some real life example on advancing the sustainability goals. Funnily enough just before the webinar, I was sitting in a large auditorium with my fellow research colleagues and one of the items on the agenda was to mingle wi...

COMPETENCE IN WORKING LIFE COOPERATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION (3 CR)   Competence goals:   17. You understand the importance of cooperation between an educational institution and working life.     18. You understand the importance of entrepreneurship education as part of a teacher’s job.     For this topic, I co-operated with my co-student Majid. We approached this topic in two parts. First, I gave a brief introduction into Entrepreneurship education in vocational and higher education and also presented the real life examples from Seinäjoki UoAS. Following this Majid went deeper into the subject and discussed the importance of this from teacher’s and students’ point of view. Entrepreneurial landscape in Finland As a pretask we asked students to complete a short quiz   on the entrepreneurial landscape in Finland. What we wanted everybody to understand is that most of the Finnish companies are very small, nearly 90% of all compani...

  PEDAGOGICAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT COMPETENCE: Assessment, evaluation and feedback     Competence goals : You understand the meaning and goals of assessment in the learning process.     We already had a chance to try assessment and feedback in practice at the last webinar, where we had to review our fellow-students’ blogs and give them feedback on them. Personally, I missed the webinar due to earlier commitments but instead opted to give feedback in written and audio form. This ended up being far hardest thing we’ve done on this OAMK course so far and also caused a lot of discussion and reflection in our first group planning session for the next webinar. We all agreed that this is an area of teaching where cultural differences can play a big role, as well as the experience of the teacher.   Goals and intended outcomes of assessment and feedback   Our team had a specific question to tackle, as always. This time it was to discuss the g...