Day 2 (26.1.) Approaches to learning, levels of thinking about teaching
Visitor/keynote speaker: Jenni Tulensalo (Planning officer, master's studies, Dean's Unit of the School of Electrical Engineering)
All the course material used during the second day will be found here: the slides and the assignments along with the instructions.
Materials of Jenni Tulensalo (ELEC) - Learning services File Powerpoint 2007 presentation
Here attached you can find the materials by planning officer Jenni Tulensalo (ELEC).
If you would like to contact your own school's Learning services, you can use these addresses:
les-biz@aalto.fi - Learning Services BIZ
les-eng@aalto.fi - Learning Services ENG
les-chem@aalto.fi - Learning Services CHEM
les-sci@aalto.fi - Learning Services SCI
les-elec@aalto.fi - Learning Services ELEC
les-arts@aalto.fi - Learning Services ARTSand another link to aalto.fi
https://www.aalto.fi/en/teaching-and-learningPlease note that this page is under development/not ready yet.
It would be great if you could give your comments about the content to Jukka and Kirsti.
(e.g. did you find the information you needed).Assignments for the next session
Intructions and submission boxes for teaching observations are in the Teaching observations section.More detailed instructions for the following tasks can be found inside the activities.- Reading assignment & group reflection (DL 5.2.)
- Orientation for the Day 3 (DL 8.2.)
- Teaching observation 1 (DL 8.2.), instructions and submission and in Teaching observations section
- Reading assignment & group reflection (DL 5.2.)
For those who could not join the whole or half contact session 2
Read the slides for day 2 and write your thoughts and reflections on the two following topics:- Read about Learning services functions and write and reflect what was new to you in them/have you encountered situations as a TA in which you have used their services/or could have used them. After having read Jenni's slides, write down if you still have any questions, or something was unclear.
(Write ½–1 page on this topic). - With reference to the three levels of thinking about teaching, how can different teachers affect how students learn (surface or deep approach to learning)? Do you see any problems if a student uses only the surface approach or only the deep aproach to study in all of their courses? How can students cope with learning subjects in the given amount of time? Address all of the questions in this topic. (Write 1–2 pages on this topic)
For those who were not able to join the "keynote" part (from 9-10):
- Do the part one described above.
Your text should not exceed three pages in all.
Submit your task into this box.
- Read about Learning services functions and write and reflect what was new to you in them/have you encountered situations as a TA in which you have used their services/or could have used them. After having read Jenni's slides, write down if you still have any questions, or something was unclear.