Vocational Teacher
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Kotila, Hannu
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
2019
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These six articles all investigate the basic elements of Finnish vocational education. There is an article about the law, one about work-based learning, two articles about ethics, one article about designing for learning and an article about special needs of learners.
Vocational education is always changing. It is because life of work has always been changing. Maybe nowadays, a little bit faster than before. Regarding changes, education laws give teachers a structure and a stability. You must follow some kinds of rules that are grounded on law. The law regulates work-based learning. Anyway, we know that as the life of work changes, laws change also.
However, something stays: teachers are for the ones who need to learn.That is why we design for learning. We do not design for teaching. Teachers exist for someone else.
There is also another thing that remains the same: there are always those who can learn even without teachers; but when there is some trouble in learning, teachers are really needed. Teachers are to support learning when it is difficult to learn something.
Teachers who support learning must realize the resources and the powers of the learners. Some things you learn easily, with other things you may have to do more work. Then teachers support learning with the help of always “learning learners”. Only learners themselves can have the power to learn. In pedagogics, learners are always active.
Everything leads to one conclusion: teachers are the ones to learn also. As a teacher, you must understand the ways others learn. It is impossible to know that in advance. You must constantly investigate and learns the learning of the others.
When you work as a teacher, you are the illustration of a lifelong learning. Students force you to learn.
Have a happy learning as a teacher!
Mika Saranpää, Education manager,
Haaga-Helia School of Vocational Teacher education
These six articles all investigate the basic elements of Finnish vocational education. There is an article about the law, one about work-based learning, two articles about ethics, one article about designing for learning and an article about special needs of learners.
Vocational education is always changing. It is because life of work has always been changing. Maybe nowadays, a little bit faster than before. Regarding changes, education laws give teachers a structure and a stability. You must follow some kinds of rules that are grounded on law. The law regulates work-based learning. Anyway, we know that as the life of work changes, laws change also.
However, something stays: teachers are for the ones who need to learn.That is why we design for learning. We do not design for teaching. Teachers exist for someone else.
There is also another thing that remains the same: there are always those who can learn even without teachers; but when there is some trouble in learning, teachers are really needed. Teachers are to support learning when it is difficult to learn something.
Teachers who support learning must realize the resources and the powers of the learners. Some things you learn easily, with other things you may have to do more work. Then teachers support learning with the help of always “learning learners”. Only learners themselves can have the power to learn. In pedagogics, learners are always active.
Everything leads to one conclusion: teachers are the ones to learn also. As a teacher, you must understand the ways others learn. It is impossible to know that in advance. You must constantly investigate and learns the learning of the others.
When you work as a teacher, you are the illustration of a lifelong learning. Students force you to learn.
Have a happy learning as a teacher!
Mika Saranpää, Education manager,
Haaga-Helia School of Vocational Teacher education