The Art of Becoming a Teacher

Competence goal No.3: You understand the relevance of the learning process in the planning of pedagogically founded teaching and guidance. Please read again carefully the assessment criteria for this competence goal: - You reflect on your own view of learning using various learning theories. - You consider how the learning process manifests in the learning and teaching of your own substance field. - In your analysis, you use your experience, scientific literature, and other reliable sources.  Summary of the four theories of learning According to James (2006), views of learning are affected by the following four theories on learning (see table 1). They are behaviorist theory, cognitive theory, constructivist theory and socio-cultural theory. Those theories have different implications for learning environments, learners, learning process, teaching and assessment. Some of the theories are interconnected while others can have divine arguments on what affects the learning process the mo...

Learning diary on October 13. More. That is the keyword that I want to use to summarize the learning process of the third jigsaw teaching session. Assessment has always been a fascinating topic for me - I have written both my bachelor's degree thesis and master's degree thesis on this topic. I felt like there is so much to learn about assessment that it felt like there is never enough of learning of this topic. The more I learn, the more I discover. Be focused. The competence that our group taught in this session is How do the assessment methods reflect the view of learning and the learning theory behind them? I think this question is very well constructed and it delivered a very clear message of what the learning goals would be. From our first preparatory experience, we learned that setting up learning goals can make lesson planning more oriented and teamwork more easily organized. So we keep what we have been working well and make improvements based on feedback that we receiv...

Reflection diary on Jigsaw teaching practice on Sep 22  Panicked. That was the word that I want to use to describe my feelings for my learning journey during this second Jigsaw session. When we were preparing for our teaching, we learned from previous students that the VARK model tells what kind of a learner one is. Is it visual, auditory, kinesthetic, or reading/writing? We were very excited when we found that questionnaire link online and we were planning to ask the participants to do the test. But when we received the feedback from Janne, I was shocked and started to think (screaming in my head): how many pedagogical myths are we still believing!?  For some reason, it is so easy to believe that the teaching instruction methods should cater to learners´ learning styles. But as I read more into the links that Janne shared on the group chat, I was surprised to find out that much criticism online about determining learners´ learning styles and that there has been a lot of skept...