Researching Professional TeachershipLaajuus (7 cr)

Objective

The students are drilled on research and developing work approach. They deepen their understanding of the teacher's professional skills by examining the field's present day questions concerning theory and practice. They are capable of using relevant sources in their research.

Content

Analysis of pedagogic thought and activity. Argumentation of own thoughts and publication

Qualifications

The students are able to examine the work of a teacher broadly, especially as concerns the music field, and to build up their own principles and conscious concepts about the teaching profession, its nature and identity.

The students are capable of evaluating, from the standpoint of diverse learning concepts, their own teaching work's pedagogic points of departure and of consciously and fundamentally building up their own teaching work's practical theory. The students use their own field's curriculum as a basis for outlining the planning and implementation or their own teaching.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Approved skills:
The students can examine the teaching work conceptually.
They are able to benefit from the present day sources and knowledge and connect them to their own practical knowledge. They are able to write their thoughts in a coherent manner and to work actively in comparative guidance. They are capable of evaluating objectively their own development.