Teacher as a Pedagogical InquirerLaajuus (8 cr)

Objective

The purpose of the study unit
This course gives you the opportunity to acquire tools for the promotion of an exploratory and a development-oriented approach as a part of your teacher ship. During this course, this is done by planning, implementing and evaluating a suitable developmental task that promotes pedagogical activities in cooperation with others. Your partners can be etc. your fellow students or a colleague at your workplace.

Study unit competences
In this study unit, you will promote and develop your developmental skills, reflection skills and agency skills.

The objective of developmental skills in teacher education is that you are able to work in cooperation with others in order to develop both your own and your partners’ pedagogical, working life and entrepreneurship competence. You are also able to acquire researched and appropriate information and use the information to support your pedagogical development work.

The objective for reflective skills is to be able to recognise and assess one’s pedagogical assumptions, and work methods as facilitators of learning. You will be able to realistically assess your own learning and competence and set yourself new goals as a facilitator of learning.

The objective of agency skills in teacher education is that you are able to systematically develop your professional competence as a facilitator of learning. You will actively participate in the development of different learning environments on the basis of professional pedagogical knowledge in cooperation with others.

Learning objectives
You are able to systematically develop your own and/or your pedagogical community’s activities in cooperation with others and based on professional pedagogical knowledge. You can also evaluate the results of your development work and set new objectives for development activities.

Content

The content of this course is the implementation of the pedagogical developmental task that you have defined in cooperation with others.  You will reflect on your own learning based on the goals you have set in your personal learning plan and the feedback you have received from peer teachers.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

The criteria for assessing the approved level are as follows:

Developmental skills
- You will work in cooperation with others in order to develop pedagogical activities and acquire researched and appropriate information and use the information to support your pedagogical development work.

Reflection skills
- You assess your own learning and competence realistically and with justification and you will set yourself new goals as a facilitator of learning.

Agency skills
- You will actively participate in the development of different learning environments based on professional pedagogical knowledge in cooperation with others.