Pre-assignment
Learning and teaching in higher education (5 cr)
Pre‐assignment (15h)
Welcome to our course: Learning and teaching in higher education. Our first meeting is on 2nd February and before that we give you a pre-assignment to do. This assignment takes you to the world of learning and teaching and it will help us to start our course together. By doing the assignment you will also know the participants before our first meeting.
This pre-assignment has three parts: short writing task, reading task and introducing yourself. DL for the tasks is 26th January. Here are the introductions:
Writing task: My approach to learning and my path of becoming a teacher
Reflect and write about 2 pages long writing where you describe your own approach to learning, and your own path of becoming a teacher. You can use following statements:
Learning is…
Teaching is…
Teacher is…
My approach to learning and teaching is…
My approach to learning and teaching has changed…
My approach to learning and teaching occurs in my teaching practices…
I´m interested in teaching because…
I became a teacher…
As a teacher I have succeeded in…
This success shows in my teaching…
The following experiences have had an effect on my teaching…
As a teacher I want to develop myself in…
In this assignment it is important to reflect your own thoughts and you don’t need to use any references. Please submit the assignment on MyCourses by 26th January and bring it also with you to the first teaching session on February 2nd.
Reading assignment: before the first teaching session
Read and familiarise yourself with Chapter 1 Understanding learning: theories and critique from the book University teaching in focus: a learning‐centred approach / edited by Lynne Hunt and Denise Chalmers. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2013.
Read the article in a way you are able to discuss about it. The book is available both as an e-book and a paper copy in the Aalto library: http://lib.aalto.fi/en/
Please notice there are only few e-books available at the same time. You can also google the book and you might find the same article from net also.
3. Introduce yourself briefly in the general discussion forum below. DL by 26th January.
If you have any questions, please contact: Maire.Syrjakari@aalto.fi or Päivi.Kinnunen@aalto.fi
Please submit here your writing: My approach to learning and my path of becoming a teacher. DL 26th January.