The Art of Becoming a Teacher

Competence goals No.2: You understand the principles, practices, and forms of guidance in vocational education/higher education.   Notes: -Prepare and look for sources etc. research articles, news, school guidelines, interviews -Your references and sources must be visible and clear -Make sure your own field is presented as an example. I will reflect on the following questions according to my internship at OSAO.   1. What are the most typical guiding and tutoring situations in your field and educational level? During my internship at OSAO, I had the opportunity to work with different language teachers in the vocational business program. I found that their everyday work does not only involve the traditional teaching in the classroom but also guiding and tutoring of students. The typical situations include: ·        Talking to students individually who seem to be falling behind in completing their studies. The teacher tries to find out wh...

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...