Monday 28 April 2014

Study guidance and counselling by Taina Poutanen


 Today morning we started lesson with exercise ''Remembering a successful event during our career". Firstly, each of us remembered a successful event  in their career, after that the teacher gave us different colors of stickers to organize a groups. Thus we shared ours thoughts. Secondly, we have drawn a picture answering on questions ''Competence categories''. Also we have drawn a picture  of our hand on a paper,  where have described  a competence that we have. "Drawing a Hand'' is a self - assessment tool to be used i competence based evaluation in various learning situations and environments.

 

 

Wednesday 23 April 2014

Study guidance and counseling

Today we have had lesson about ''Study guidance and counseling" by Paivi Pukkila. At first she introduced herself,  thus she made  good atmosphere in the classroom. Then we moved to another room and introduced themselves through group working. We stand up in the circle by name according to alphabet and by birthday. After that we sat down and made this exercise "Am I only one who have ....". I told them ''Am I only one who have 5 brothers and 4 sisters. Nobody said 'yes, I have''. After we discussed about  what does means "Study counselling". We made mind map. Paivi showed presentation about study counselling methods. We also have known about counseling in basic education, general upper secondary schools, vocational upper secondary schools and higher education as well. Furthermore we made exercise which consists of student, counsellor and observer. The most difficult role was a counsellor.


Tuesday 22 April 2014

Web-based learning and teaching/ (Moodle)

Today we have had a very interesting lesson about Moodle. In our country we use this learning environment, but not so much. Nevertheless, we with  Jukka have tried to create forums, made assignments for students (some tests), link videos, new pages and folders. 


Wednesday 16 April 2014

Constructive alignment in assessment



Continuous assessment

On Tuesday morning principal Lecturer Irma Kunnari showed one of the method of self-assessment. She brought a lot of toys out of home. Then we chose  toys to describe our today's mood. It was  a very interesting method self-assessment ourselves. The teacher have commented our choices.  We have learnt about  recognition of prior learning and continuous assessment improving learning, also we have discussed about   Feedback, Self-assessment and Peer-assessment. We also have known about ''Aisberg metaphor". Then we did group work. In our group were Zhanat, Aizhan. We planed one lesson of math, we drew a picture to describe  assessment during the lesson.


Wednesday 2 April 2014

Computer applications for STEM education

Today we learnt about Authentic learning, scaffolding, zone of proximal development etc. However, we had known some of pedagogical terms in our country. We learnt a lot of theoretical knowledge in the lesson, but  wasn't  been practical work.


Tuesday 1 April 2014

21st Century Skills Definitions

Today we discussed about 21st Century Skills Definitions, learning and innovation skills. After that the teacher presented presentation about STEM integration, connection across disciplines, definitions of integration. Afternoon we worked with computers. The teacher showed us link about good sites, which will be helped in teaching process.