Personal inventory to my teachership

Today is once again first lecture day of new university year. What could be better time for a personal inventory of one´s teachership than this day! :)

This is pure coincidence but I just did last Tuesday in my studies at Häme university of Applied Sciences personal development plan for my teacher studies. In this personal inventory to my teachership (as I call it), we teacher students filled up a questionary which delt three important teachers´areas of expertise:
1) Teaching, supervising and evaluation
2) Collective learning
3) Operational environment

And what did I recognized? Well, I am suitable to be a vocational teacher ( good poin to take into account at the beginning of your studies) ;). More seriously speaking, I think evaluating you personal teacher skills and especially evaluating point where you need development was very refreshing for a long time! Indeed, a deep and thorough look to your own teachership learnt me a lot.

I learnt that I truly need some basic data about pedagogics. I am really waiting for our coming course about basics of education in November and December. I recognized that I need deeper knowledge of:
- how learning happens in different ages of human life
- how learning happens in different phases of personal development of human
- what does truly mean dialogue knowledge in learning and how to use that as a teahcer
- how to fully utilize interactive ability in my teachership
- how to apply more theoretical background of pedagogics in my own teaching
- how to really efficiently evaluate students´ learning (this was most important from my point of view)
- what does mean "recognization of expertixe" in my field of science and how that is officially evaluated (this was second important thing from my point of view)
- basics of education history and politics in Finland.

I also learnt during my personal inventory to my teachership that my strength as teacher is that I have long experience in my field of expertise (12 years now) and based on that I can very well tell what kind of students I expect that industry wants us to educate. I also understand very deeply what is my educations role in society generally.

Modern work-life goes on very fast and we are all the time moving towards digitalization in many areas of our everyday life. I see this very well as a teacher of modern manufacturing technologies (laser technology and 3D printing) my aim is also to educate students with good working life skills generally. This consists of ability to work in multi-task and multi-cultural enviroment. Students entering to worklife has to also have ability to educate themselves, to be able to update themselves and to be able to also change their field of expertize if required. If you graduate from certain field, that is not anymore in nowadays world the education you work with until you retire. This all sets totally new demands also for teaching in university.

I also noticed during my personal inventory to teaching that it will be also one task of teacher to do this kind of inventory every now and then. As world changes, we have to also reflect our teachership to be synchronized by demands set by society, level of technology etc.