Facilitating the Learning Process (12 cr)

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Objective

Course Purpose:
In this course, you will develop your competence in guiding the learning process by planning, implementing, and assessing an instructional unit that best promotes your pedagogical development. You will identify your personal theory-in-use related to learning guidance and apply it in your practice in diverse vocational learning environments with varied learners.

Competences Promoted in the Course:
- Vocational pedagogical competence
- Facilitation of learning competence
- Working life competence
- Interpersonal competence
- Competence in learner diversity

Learning outcomes:

Vocational pedagogical competence
- You are familiar with the theoretical and ethical foundations of vocational learning.
- You are able to operate in diverse vocational teaching and guidance situations in line with learning goals and official curricular documents.
- You can analyze and justify your own actions in guiding learning.

Facilitation of learning competence
- You are able to plan and implement meaningful, learner-centered learning processes aligned with goals and curricular documents.
- You are familiar with various vocational learning environments and can operate in them pedagogically.
- You understand the goals and purposes of assessment as part of the learning process and can implement continuous, learning-supportive assessment.
- You understand the possibilities of digitalization in learning guidance and can evaluate the appropriateness of the solutions you use.

Working Life Competence
- You recognize the effects of changes in working life on vocational education and develop pedagogical solutions that respond to them.
- You build a sustainable future through teaching in collaboration with working life.

Interpersonal competence
- You engage with learners dialogically, constructively, and respectfully, and apply accessibility principles in teaching and guidance.

Competence in Learner Diversity
- You take into account learners' individual learning backgrounds and goals, and support their agency and equality in diverse learning environments.

Content

Course Content
- Planning, implementing, and assessing a pedagogical unit
- Guiding learning in diverse vocational learning environments
- Reflection and articulation of personal theory-in-use for learning guidance
- Assessment as part of the learning process
- Applying digital tools in teaching and guidance
- Working life changes and sustainable future-oriented teaching practices
- Learner-centered approaches and accessibility in guidance
- Supporting learner diversity and equality

Student workload

The course is worth 12 credits, which corresponds to 324 hours of student work.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Assessment Criteria

Vocational pedagogical competence
Assessment Criteria:
- Your practice is based on educational understanding of learning and its theoretical and ethical foundations.
- Your actions are grounded in Vocational pedagogical competence, and you guide learning in line with working life, professional requirements, and curricular documents.
- You justify your personal theory-in-use for guiding learning and act accordingly.

Facilitation of learning competence
Assessment Criteria:
- You design and implement pedagogically meaningful learning processes in diverse learning environments.
- You understand the significance of assessment in the learning process and can apply different assessment and feedback methods.
- You use digital tools in teaching and guidance in a purposeful way.

Working Life Competence
Assessment Criteria:
- You consider changes in working life when planning and implementing learning processes.
- You develop future-oriented practices together with learners and working life representatives.

Interpersonal competence
Assessment Criteria:
- You act constructively and ethically and support equality in various interaction situations.
- You reflect on and evaluate your own actions in different encounters and interaction contexts.

Competence in Learner Diversity
Assessment Criteria:
- You consider diverse learners and their individual goals.
- You engage learners individually, supporting their agency and equality.