Rakel K. Rohde Næss og Berit Bratholm:What Pedagogy will teachers need in the future?

NERA 2008

Experiences from Lower Secondary School teacher training at Vestfold University College

What is LUT? • A training programme for teachers of pupils

aged 13-16• A more thorough academic grounding • 60 ECTS credits in one mandatory school

subject (Norwegian or Mathematics) • 60 ECTS credits in pedagogics (an increase

from 30 ects to 60)• 28 weeks of practice (college and associated

schools making joint annual plans)

The Goal of the study:Professional Competence in pedagogy

1.Digital portfolios (Marius)

• Authentic writing environment• Motivating and stimulating• Easy to control, coach and compare • Constant changing and improvement of

products, ie writing process • Welcomes a variety of ways of writing

and structuring texts

2.Learning experiences• Guro: ”Here is another example, from my own days at school. The teacher

had no structure on his teaching, and it was obvious (in retrospect) that he had no didactical planning of the lessons. One had to wonder whether the lessons were planned at all. This teacher had great knowledge of the subject itself, but was totally unable to convey this knowledge to us pupils. During lessons he just talked, and talked, but it was not possible for us to understand what he said. It was just incredibly demotivating to sit and listen to him. ”

• Bjørn Kristoffer:”Based on my own experience from secondary school, I would say that there still is a lack of competence in cultural understanding among most teachers, and in the use of mass media as a tool for teaching. Being a teacher who understands and is able to utilise some of the culture and technology which engulf young people's every day life, is essential to maintain the youths' interest in the class room and towards the subjects. ”

The Goal of the study:Professional Competence in pedagogy

• Research-based teaching (supervision,interwiev)

• Filming as a method and tool for teaching (Brunla-TU)

• Youth culture• Youth and health issues

Professional Competence

• A strong focus on different forms of assessment (Rakel)

Summative learning: Assessment of learningFormative assessment: Assessment for learning

• Peer and self assessment

Portfolios used for summative and formative assessment

Professional Competence

Practice of guidance- students give each other

guidancePersonal initiative and

readiness to act (Alexandra)Applying methodological

tools in teaching

Experiences- challenges-pedagogy

• Close and flexible contact with the field of practice

• Higher expectations lead to more dedicated and ambitious students

Experiences- challenges-pedagogy

• The challenge of balancing the demands of different themes

• Coordination of the five professional competences

• And then – will the individual subjects be followed through?

The Goal of Pedagogy:Academic and Professional Competence

1. Learning, development and teaching – a joint process between pupil and teacher

Goals: Cultural understanding, media, individually suited teaching, management, guidance, organising and adaptation of teaching material

• Week 34: Didactics and theories of general curricula

• Week 35: Sessions on curricula and digital portfolios

• Week 36 og 37: Filming as a method of teaching

• Week 38: Guidance• Week 39: Cultural

understanding• Week 41: The teacher’s

role: work ethics, identity og socialization

• Week 43: Class management

2. The teacher in the school system: Co-operation and organisational development

Goals: Facilitating the learning process, developing interpersonal competence,the school as an organisation, co-operating partners

• Week 36. Digital portfolios as a learning tool

• Week 39: Interpersonal understanding

• Week 43: Learning strategies

• Weeks 44 og 45: Inter-disciplinary focus on facilitating in the learning process

• Week 48: The school as an organisation

The Goal of Pedagogy:Academic and Professional Competence

3. The school in a changing society

Goals: Youth and health, History of education in a national and international perspective, basic questions in pedagogy, transitions in the educational system

• Week 39: Transitions in the educational system

• Week 46: History of education and individually adapted teaching

The Goal of Pedagogy:Academic and Professional Competence