The Art of Becoming a Teacher

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...

Reflection diary on Sep. 8 online jigsaw teaching  Good attitude.  This is a keyword that I want to use to summarize our meeting on Sep 22. Maybe it is because that was the first Jigsaw session that we did, everyone was very enthusiastic about the teaching and was actively participating in the sessions when others were teaching. Besides learning about the competence goals that were taught in the sessions, we have also learned a lot of new tools, for example, Prezi, Kahoot and Flinga. For me, the most precious part of this practice is our learning community. We have similar goals and we can learn from one and another. More importantly, it has provided such a space where we can practice making mistakes, so that we can learn from those “mistakes”. For me, this is an unavoidable route to becoming a teacher. When we were preparing for teaching the lesson, we could have easily used only Padlet to organize all sorts of learning activities. Instead, we want to try using Kahoot and ...

Reflection Diary on Orientation Workshop at OAMK 29 August 2021 Grateful. That was my feeling towards the three-day workshop on the campus.  We have not been able to have face-to-face meetings since the COVID-19 pandemic struck. The fact that we could meet up on the campus and had a physical meeting with participants present felt like a blessing. I also felt energized because I met people who have the same goal and passion as I do - to become a teacher. One of the questions that we discussed during the workshops was whether everyone can be a teacher. I do believe that everyone has the potential of being a teacher, but not everyone is a qualified one. To become a teacher, one needs education and training, and that's what we are doing now.  Everyone has the potential to be a teacher, but becoming a teacher needs training. It is interesting and also exciting to be studying to become a teacher together with people from various fields of work. Most of the participants in the class...