Guidance Taina Poutanen

The seminar was about Career counseling at universities.

It must be done not only by counsellors but also teachers, tutors, principal, other staff. They have functions divided table for counseling students.

They prepare students at university to be interviewed at work place. They have voluntary courses for it.

She gave us a list of the most valuable transferable skills in the future:

Useful: self-knowledge method

Drawing a hand where every finger introduces skills, qualities, knowledge, experience, networks and source of energy in heel of their hand. A student can draw a finger to show for how much he or she has this competence or with different colors. It shows how much he or she needs to learn further.

Study counseling Paivi Pukkila

Study counseling

C works at school. 1 C = 250 students

To become a C a person should have teacher education and 60 ECTS (60*27) course of counsellor. 

C is not a psychologist. C does not give answers, c and student search for answers together. 

C works at secondary, upper sec, vocational schools and universities, not primary school.

Functions of a C:

Comprehensive school:

- objectives are set by a national curriculum

- class based lessons 76 hours:

7th grade: self knowledge, learning skills

8th grade: professions, occupations

9th grade: upper secondary school.

- personal counseling

- study visits, work experience, periods

- cooperation with parents, student welfare team

- national joint application system (grade 9) - students electronically apply to 5 different places to study after 9th grade

- transfer to the next school level

Upper sec school:

- objectives are set by nat curric

- one compulsory course in counseling

- personal counseling

  Planning the studies and courses

  Matriculation examination

  Career counseling

- tutoring students' training

- student welfare team

- marketing

Stages of group development

1) forming

2) storming

3) norming

4) performing

5) adjourning

The key areas of counseling discussion

1) preparation

2) starting, warm up

3) counsellor's roles

4) communication and dialogue. Pay attention to 'hot words'.

5) interventions

6) ending

7) documentation and reflection

Interruption styles

1) acceptance: empathy, listening to stud.

2) catalytic - open questions, help in decision making

3) confrontational: inconsistency between what. Student says and does

4) prescriptive: c.works as an expert in a situation and offers a solution.

Useful warm up exercises:

Sociogram: 

1) stand in a circle according to your birthdays, first letter of your name, age

2) say "what you are good in" - students are staying in a circle

3) in circle one students stands up and asks: "am I the only one who ..." (Visited France, has 2 children)

    If it is true for someone too, he or she stands up and a speaker says another sentence till nobody stands up. Then another person in a circle stands up and asks.

Warm-up:

in pairs count 1-2-3 many times. Then clap hands-  2 -3 many times

    Then clap hands - stamp feet - 3 many times.

    Then clap hands - stamp feet - shrug your shoulder.

 Feedback metaphors:

As a student I am .....

As a teacher I am ....

As a good counsellor I am ...

Jukka's teaching to use moodle as a teacher

Today Jukka Niinimaki taught us how to create a course and develop it in the moodle.

We learnt

- organizing the page

- importing docs

- enrolling students

- creating forums, assignments, groups

- creating and importing tests

Moodle must be bought by an organization not an individual. We can ask access permission from administrator to create our course and do it with login and password. It is very convenient place for teachers and students to communicate, exchange docs, get news, do tests and assignments...

The main point is to press Turn to editing on and then start modifying the course as a teacher. 

The most necessary buttons: 

- resources ( we can upload file, folder, video, ppt, web page, page,book, PDF, picture)

- activities (forum, assignments, wiki, quiz...)

- settings (edit settings, groups, enroll members, import...)

A lot of commands in details are in the copybook.

Assessment day 2

15.04.14

Ice breaking method:

Self-assessment method. We can ask any question concerning student's, colleague's mood, thoughts, attitude, feeling after lesson, after working in group, feelings before and after the lesson. Offer them some toys, pictures, draw a picture, items to choose and then describe and answer the question. It makes situation friendly, informal, good to know their minds.

Wilma - electronic register of all Finland schools. Marks, schedule, students formative as comments, letters for parents, study programs.

Self and peer assessment method:

Teacher gives students group work, students do it and then T hands out a paper to each student where 3-4 questions are written. Questions are connected to student's group work behavior, presentation ... The questions are written in lines and student' names are in columns. For self as one column should be: self assessment where. A student will evaluate himself or herself.

We did this method themselves as students. Group work task was making up 4 types of assessment for 1 course, subject over the period of 1-2 months. Assessment types: pre-assignment task (before the course starts), assessment in the beginning of the course (on the first lesson), ass during the course, final assessment. 

Assessment day1

14.04.14

Irma Kunnari, MEd, Principal lecturer

Final assessment: vocational school - competence test

                             Upper sec sch- Matriculation exam

                             9th and 6th grade - national test. School decides to take them or not. Some schools do not take these exams but schools of Helsinki decided to take them. School autonomy

In Finland formative and summative as are not called so in curricula and everyday speech.

Formative as - learning evaluation: as of learning, ass for learning, feedback, as during the studies.

Summ ass - final ass.: as related to learning objective, competence based as, evidence of competence, final as.

Warm-up method: to get the idea of students mood, aim we can use cards with different pictures of animals having various types of mood and doing different things. Students take one card and then give reasons why they chose it.

Useful: Finnish curricula of different levels

            

Taitaja 2014

09.04.14

International Seminar at the Finnish National Skills competition:

Work based learning (WBL) as a sustainable practice in Vocational Education and Training (VET)

Lahti

Morning: Seminar

Afternoon: Skills competition - Taitaja

Over 50 countries participated in seminar. 9 speakers were speaking about vocational education, WBL, apprenticeship, their country's practice, ... The scale of the exhibition was enormous. It was organized by Salpaus Further Education.  It was the biggest exhibition I have ever seen. Students were eager to participate and win. It was also an advertising event for companies and colleges. I think everybody got their benefit: students, companies and vocational schools and of course me. I spent a splendid time their with my husband and group.

Over 300 students of VET participated in skills competition. Students competed in different areas: construction, repair work, cooking, landscape design, plumber's work, sewing, laboratory work, ICT, car repairing by hands and with autorobot equipments, construction with wood, ...

Some services were being done by VET students: hair modelling, massage, nail colouring, hands massage, 3D printer (names on plastic).

Companies were advertising their products, services at exhibition. There were big and small enterprises such as Wurth (hardware, car parts,cars), Kiitolinja (communication), Bosch (bicycle engine), ABB, ICT Academy, Lahden Seutu (horse industry), Salpaus (cars, tracks, tractors selling), Orfer (robotics), Teklab (Technology), Sew Eurodrive, Sick Sensow Intelligence,  Fazer (bread, chocolates), Sampo (kitchen equipment), Autorobot, Mirka (building construction), Metsa Wood (construction with wood - buildings), 

Kaeser Kompressorit, Tikkurila (repair work materials), Vex Robotics () Lahti Kotihoidon (emission free car selling company), ...
Things I liked the most:
- Finnish enthusiasm to develop VET
- second speaker who talked about WBL and professional skills in the European context
- Salpaus company's competition: 8 students doing all 8 different works connected to loading, unloading, shipping the cargo on various working machines in time
- bicycle exhibited by Bosch which goes with engine: electricity.

For more info: taitaja2014.com

Jukka Niinimaki

Week 7

ELearning/MLearning and Pedagogical models

Tutor: Jukka Niinimaki

There are 4 types of ELearning:

1) Contact Learning (F-t-F): timetables, materials tasks at web. Tutoring and assessment are at contact learning.

2) Blended learning: Contact periods + learning at web. Tutoring and assessment are partly at contact period, partly at web.

3) Self-learning at web: no teacher, only self-evaluation. Learning for yourself and by yourself

4) Collaborative learning at web: Tutoring and assessment are in web. Peer assessment isimportant.

New:
Word press = google site blog. It's an alternative. He says it's more professional.

Popplet: it's a tool to create different schemes, spider maps, brainstorming maps. It's free.I have learnt to use in 5 minutes, very easy, but useful. You can add as many boxes as you wish. Also there are more different forms.
 Example of Popplet:

Sanna

Week 5

Sanna Ruhalahti

Site creation:
1) google sites - create - choose form - name your site ...

2) ucoz.com

Questionnaire and test creation:
1) Google Drive - Create - Form
Don\t forget to put Name as the first question. There are different types of questions. You can send tests via Google+, Facebook, Twitter. Answers are given in "Otvety" in Google Drive.
2) msocrative.com
3) flubaroo.com

They can check and give you statistics, ANSWERS IMMEDIATELY AFTER ANSWERING THE TESTS.

Jouni Day 3

Jouni enqvist
Day 3

Concepts of teaching

1) authentic learning
Students are interested in their learning, are motivated if what they are learning mirrors real life contexts, equips them with practical and useful skills, and addresses topics that are relevant and applicable to their lives outside of school.
There is no right or wrong answers. There are many potentially correct answers like in actual scientific theories and findings. There are open ended questions, complex problems. It is interdisciplinary like life itself - no compartmentalized. Students will have to apply multiple skills or domains of knowledge in any given educational, career, civic or life situation.
AL is intended to encourage students to think more deeply, raise hard questions , consider multiple forms of evidence, weigh competing ideas, investigate contradictions, navigate difficult problems and situations.

2) scaffolding (леса, подростки)
S is instructional techniques used to move students toward stronger understanding and greater independence in learning. Teachers provide successive levels of temporary support that help students. Reach higher levels of comprehension and skill acquisition that they would not be able to achieve without assistance. Also S can reduce negative emotions in learning process.

3) relevance
Personal relevance occurs when learning is connected to an individual student's interests, aspirations, life experiences.
Life rel occurs when learning is connected to real world issues, problems and contexts outside of school.

4) ZPD - zone of proximal development.
It is the distance between the actual developmental level as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.

DIANA model Dialogical authentic net learning activity
Cornerstone A: creating common ground for online learning
Cornerstone B: authenticity in Online learning
Cornerstone C: dialogic activities In online learning
Cornerstone D: reformulating tasks and problems and developing proficiency in online learning

Useful sites: 

1) http://www.freewebarcade5.net/media/the-scale-of-the-universe-2.swf
It shows a scale of Universe, the least 10 (-35), the biggest 10 (27): the universe. It's amazing to see different things in scale and get info about this  thing if you click on it.

2) http://www.webelements.com/pictures.html
This site contains elements of Mendeleyev's periodic table which can be seen via different sciences. Biology also. 

Jouni day. 2

31.03

We studied STEM integration not only stem but also other subjects are possible to integrate with them. See PPT presentation in Finland file in computer.

21st Centuty skills 

We were talking about  a list of skills well-known as "21st Century Skills" (http://www.imls.gov/about/21st_century_skills_list.aspx) and discussed how much they are appropriate to different subjects. I found out that not every skill is suitable for every subject but in different degree they can be used by teachers and students. 

STEM integration

How to motivate students to learn? If students know why and what they are  learning  they will be more motevated.  Students should be able to transfer their knowledge and skills from one subject to another. So it can be possible by making connections across disciplines. 

LUMA Luonnontiede ja matematikka

Also it was interesting to found out about levels of integration like sequenced, parallel, partial, enhanced and total. 

Some usefull websites were offered by Jouni Enqvist:

 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm - is a free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community.

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/discussions/ - math forum 

http://www.howstuffworks.com/ - is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works.

http://www.hippocampus.org/ - is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge.

http://eu.ixl.com/ - IXL is  about helping students learn maths

http://www.learnerstv.com/ - is a comprehensive site providing downloadable Video lectures, Online Tests.