PROFESSIONAL TEACHER EDUCATION

 Competence goal: Student welfare Services and Student Well-being. By: Abeeda Khan Student welfare encompasses services that promote the physical , mental, and social well-being of pupils and students. The services advance the balanced growth and development of the young, foster a culture of caring and positive interaction in the school community, and ensure equal learning opportunities for all. Guidance and counselling are of key importance from the viewpoint of the pupils, school, and society alike. The guidance forms a continuum that extends throughout the pupil’s years in basic education to subsequent studies. Every pupil is entitled to guidance during school days. Guidance and counselling promote the successful completion of schoolwork the progress of the studies the productivity and effectiveness of education. A key task of guidance and counselling is to support students’ growth and development in a way that enables them to promote their social maturity and capacity to study ...

 By: Abeeda Khan Competence goals. You examine how work based networks integrate into the education and work in your own field? You examine the roles of teacher and workplace counsellor in teaching practice or workplace learning? You examine teacher's working life networks in education in your own field?   A collaboration between teacher and work based network is a key thing in education to promote entrepreneurship and employment. There are several networks through which teachers can collaborate and help students in making career choices. These networks could be any social media platform loke FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM etc.  • Collaboration between teacher and workplace tutor. The collaboration between the teacher and the workplace tutor is of primary importance. Teacher can communicate during the teacher’s workplace visits or through electronic tools. As a workplace tutor, you have to be aware of what is learnt at the educational institute to be able to support th...

 By: Abeeda Khan Competence goals: You create accessible study material. What is physical, mental, social, cultural and attitudinal accessibility and study material ? A basic summary for accessible material is: Universal design for learning (UDL) Making your learning materials accessible Providing alternate formats of materials      Accessible materials ensure that individuals with disabilities can access the information contained in your materials.  These same changes will help all students, regardless of ability, with a variety of learning needs. For example, changes to how you structure text can help students for which English isn't their first language.  Simplifying the navigation of  course in Canvas can help students using mobile devices as well as students who are low vision or blind.  Adding captions helps students with hearing loss as well as students who are new to a content area and key terminology. As teachers, we can make our lessons ...

Date: (29-11-2023) By: Abeeda Khan In this blog post  I will share my thoughts on the topic mentioned above. All the key questions and points were discussed by the different group members with the collaboration of each other. Though a few of our peers could'nt  join the webinar due to some personal reasons. But all the participants shared their useful knowledge about the topic and our respected tutors also guided us at some points. To move forward, I would start from the part of webinar that was done by me. Key questions: What does the inclusion means in practice? What does the concept of accessibility means in educational context? What is a pedagogically accessible environment?                                                    In my presentation I shared my knowledge (that was collected through my own research, my group fellows' help and some link...

 By Abeeda Khan 15.11.2023 (Safety Competence And Pedagogical Welfare) Our fifth webinar was about "Importance of pedagogical well-being in teaching ang guidance, and creating safe study environment." Some people worked in a group and some of us prepared our own presentation but as a whole discussion this webinar have been quite informative and insightful. Despite of sick condition of a few of our peers, they presented everything diligently. I personally joined the webinar a bit later but soon after joining I got involved in discussion and then presented my part. In this reflection I would like to pen down our discussion and the core points that we discussed in this webinar. First of all I'll talk about well-being. What is Well-being?  Well-being is the experience of health and happiness. It includes mental and physical healthy, physical and emotional safety and a feeling of belonging, sense of purpose, achievement and success. Well-being is one of the key components in t...

By Abeeda Khan (Group 2) In this progressive journey of teacher training, this is my fourth webinar that actually I couldn't attend physically due to some reasons. However I participated in our group meetings and also contributed by provided links and information regarding the topic. For the rest of two groups, I went through their presentations and also watched the recorded session of all three groups. I would say that all the participants from three groups did the best job and provided informative material regarding the assigned topics. Reflection on our group topic: (Group 2) 1: What are the laws, key documents and principles that guide the planning of teaching and guidance in vocational and higher education? 2: What are amendments  and guidelines regulating, governing and providing the framework for assessment in vocational and higher education? 3: Real examples from actual assessment cases. First of all I would like to mention the laws informing planning of teaching. The Finni...

 We had our fourth webinar on 18th of October. We reflected on the competence goal 4 that was: "You understand the meaning of assessment and feedback in higher education pedagogy, specifically peer assessment and feedback". First of all, we all participated in general meeting and discussed few points regarding assessment and feedback. Everyone came with quite meaningful thoughts about assessment and feedback in higher education. Some of those points are:  It accelerates the performance. It increase the power of learning and development. It's a way of improvement. It determines the new teaching and learning methodologies. Moreover, our tutors Marjukka and Juha also added useful points about assessment and feedback that: Giving feedback is always about respecting others. It should be positive and constructive. Getting feedback could be harder than receiving.  After having discussion in general meeting, we were then divided into small groups with our peers to discuss about a...