Today we have discussed about identity, Culture, culture shock, intercultural interaction. Culture shock. What does it mean? Foreign students often experience culture shock when they first come to the another country. Culture shock can be described as consisting of at least one of five distinct phases: Honeymoon, Stepping in: the distress stage, Stage of autonomy: ''Getting used to", Back to normal, Back home again stage.
On Tuesday we have been in Tampere. Tampere is the second-largest urban area and third most-populous municipality in Finland, after the Greater Helsinki municipalities of Helsinki and Espoo. Firstly, in the morning we have been in Sara Hilden art museum to see exhibition of Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His paintings, prints, photographs, and drawings from this period include: Mao, Ladies and Gentlemen, Skulls, Hammer and Sickles, Shadows, Guns, Knives, Crosses, Dollar Signs, Zeitgeist, and Camouflage. Warhol make paintings of iconic American objects such as mushroom clouds, electric chairs, Campbell's Soup Cans, Coca-Cola bottles, celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, Troy Donahue, Muhammad Ali, and Elizabeth Taylor.
Then we have visited adult education centre of Tampere (Immigrant education). Project managers Mari Poikolainen and Tarja Liljeroos familiarized us about their Centre, the objective of centre, how they work, how they teach migrants. After that we have managed to talk with migrant students. Among them were people from Russia, Afghanistan, Estonia etc.
Today's our topic was Skills competition as a tool supporting the talented learner and as a tool to develop VET. Vocational skills competitions have become established as a form of supporting and developing vocational education. In 1988, Finland joined the organisation that arranges the world championships in vocational skills: International Vocational Training Organization, today known as World Skills International. Every year the number of participations is increased. For instance, Estonia joined in World Skills International (WSI) in 2006, Russia in 2012 and Belarus in 2014. In 1988 the first national Taitaja skills competitions were organized in Hameenlinna.
Taitaja9 is a competition skills intended for 9th grade pupils in basic education.
TaitajaPLUS is a vocational skills competition for special needs students.
The World Skills Competition can be participate under the age of 23. The World competition in vocational skills was in Helsinki in 2005.
Participants in Euroskills is open for young people under 25.
Benefits (and criticism) of skills competitions for
* students
* VET providers and stakeholders
* companies
* teachers
Today morning we have been in Kiipula Centre of Vocational Education and Rehabilitation.
Mr. Petteri Ora, project director has presented short presentation about what is the Kiipula Foundation. Kiipula Centre of Vocational Education and Rehabilitation provides services on vocational special education, adult education, rehabilitation, and work life development.
The centre is divided into three sections: Vocational College Special Education and Adult Education, Rehabilitation Centre, Kiipula Garden. After that Mr. Markku Aunola, principal in Kiipula Centre of Vocational Education and Rehabilitation told about Vocational special education in Finland, Funding and guiding principles (education policy).
After lunch we have seen a lot of useful things. Students, who need helps learn work based learning. Finally, we have seen Kiipula Gardens as learning environment. Kiipula Garden is specialised in all-year-round greenhouse production. We have seen many kind of flowers, tomatoes etc. growing in Greenhouses. We also have had possibility to buy products of Kiipula Garden from the Miinantori -shop.
Today we have learnt about Special needs education by Simo Uusinoka and Irmeli Lignell. We have got answers What is special needs education? Special needs education within education system in Finland, Education for all. Every human has a right to education. Human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Good atmosphere in school community.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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