My teacher studies at University of Applied Sciences of Häme started 28.8.-29.8. by two days orientation days. I was feeling very interested and anxious of coming to these two days; I could for first time see face to face my coming student colleagues.
Once I arrived to University of Applied Sciences of Häme after waking up at 3 a.m. and driving 3.5 hours from Imatra to Hämeenlinna, I was actually not feeling tired at all. I happen to be lucky as I have one of my work collagues as my student collague. We already spoke of our coming studies at HAMK in car, and shared first feelings.
I was very surprised that amount of students was around 120. Executing teacher studies on-line obviously is coming more and more popular. on the other hand, this is very understandable as most of us were adult students. It is much more convenient to study on-line when adult students very often have day work, family etc. Nevertheless, I was surprised of this. But I think, this is showing one ongoing trend in education and learning in general: it is very obvious that option to make studies on-line is coming more and more popular. I think this is especially true amoung adult students: when having so much else going on in life (family, children, day work etc.), on-line studies provides excellent possibility to educate yourself flexibly. This attracted me as well. As I have day work, family, child and one family house with garden, option to make teacher studies on-line was main thing influencing my decision never to start educating myself.
I think this school and on-line studies will also be very useful for me as teacher. I know that more and more of my own teaching will in any case go to internet in some time point. so executing studies myself on-line, provides me an excellent possibility firstly to myself as student experience all advantages and disadvantages of on-line studies and secondly I might know after this experience how to transfer education to internet. I believe that one of most important thing in finding my inner teachership is laso to reflectme as a student. I believe that outlook of a teacher consists of understanding of learning. So teachership has to faces; my opinion of me as a teacher and my own opinion of student via my own experiences as teacher.
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I took last year a course of university pedagogics. This course was 25 ECT and lasted one year. We also did a development project during that course and this project was about some of our own courses. This course was the point that I understood importance of pedagogics in my own teachership. I could say that I realized that a teacher has to have a inner teachership. I somehow familiarised myself with that teachership and I also got my first positive experiences of that teachership during execution of my development project. This all inspired me to apply for vocational teacher studies and as I told I felt that on-line studies was just the package for me.
I am very anxiously looking forward of getting to know my inner teachership better and further develop it a lot. It is funny that I have been educating university student for 12 years, and just know I understand meaning of teachership. :) Of course, it is better late than never. This is why also feel that my studies at HAMK will be very useful for me.
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During my university pedagogics studies, I familiarized myself with lifelong, lifedeep and lifewide learning. This is actually not very weel known, people do know lifelong learning and many knows lifelong and lifewide learning. Lifelong, lifewide and lifedeep learning are result of modern society: digitalization, internet, globalization and fast development of todays´ mankind put need for learning which happenes all the time and also requires learning in many sides of life. It is not just professional learning, it is not just learning new softwares, it is not just learning of new languages; learning simply goes deeply to everybody´s daily life. I am educating students at university in field of modern manufacturing technologies: laser technology and 3D-printing. I feel that lifelong, lifewide and life deep learning suits this context perfectly. I need to transfer such a skills to students that they are able also in future to update themselves in this modern technology field, as these technologies develops fast. I am also myself "eternal student" and i believe that learning never stops. it happens in different ways during a lifecycle of a modern human being. Learning is a kind of mental stage that should be adopted by everybody. This is my pedagogical background. I wish that I am able to further develop this also during my studies at HAMK.
