Subject Teacher Education

Hotel Caribia 17.5.2012

Katri Karasma

http://www.helsinki.fi/okl

Subject teacher

In comprehensive school grades 7-9 (13-15 years old pupils), upper secondary school (16-18 years old), vocational institutions

Master’s degree— in subjects (disciplines, major 120-150 ECTS, minors 25-90 ECTS,pedagogical studies 60 ECTS

Pedagogical studies 60 ECTS

• Basic studies 25 ECTS• Theory of education 4 ects • Educational sociology 4 ects• Educational psychology 7 ects• Teaching and learning of subject 3 ects (university

lecturer)• School administration 2 ects• Supervised teaching practice I 5 ects• Later 15 ects•  

Subject studies 35 ECTS

• Growth and learning 10 ects • Part 1. Teaching and leading to learn 8 ects (university

lecturer, professor)• Part 2. Helping pupil’s learning 2 ects• Subject teaching, professional identity and expertisement

4 ects• Alternative studies:

Teaching in foreign language 2 ects• Finnish as a second language and multiculturalism 2 ects• Gender in education 2 ects• Environmental education and sustainable development 2

ects

• Subject–centered seminar 6 ects• (including a thesis of at least 15 pages) (professor)

Instructional Science of Mother Tongue

• Mother tongue education• From didactics to research based teacher behavior• Teacher as a researcher• A new science• Own concepts• Own structure• Own homepage• Own journal

Instructional Science of Finnish as a Second Language• Structure• 1) Immigrants as a societal phenomen, concept, different

movements in Finland, integration• 2) Target language, learning, teaching, language

structure, its studies• 3) Literature and folklore, immigrant writers, literature on

immigration and refugee• 4) Research methods (research interview, questionnaire,

experimental research, case study, content analysis, story analysis, error analysis, variation analysis, ethnografic research)

Reading Theory• What is it?

• — thinking, reasoning• — psycholinguistic guessing game (Goodman 1987)• — radical, revolutionary (Bloom 2001)• — poaching (Lyons 2010)• — R = D x C (Lundberg 1989)• — information seeking, creating meaning• — dancing with an unknown partner• — dancing with an invisible partner (Blanchot 2003)

Dimensions of reading

•Reading• — meaning• — aim• — target• — studying• — amusement• — skill

Understanding of reading

• — experience of life• — earlier knowledge• — age• — susceptibility • — different theories

Understanding theories

• — reception theory• — transaction theory• — envisioning

•Analysis and interpretation•Language

• phonological awareness

• vocabulary

Tool and genre

• — book• — webb• — fiction• — informational literature• — newspaper

Methods to teach to read

• — synthetic• — analytic• — mixed methods

•Reading strategies

Eine Lust zu lesenAimer lire

Harold Bloom The Western Canon (1994)

• William Shakespeare• Dante (Alighieri)• Geoffrey Chaucer• Miquel de Cervantes• Michel de Montaigne• Molière• John Milton• Samuel Johnson• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe• William Wordsworth• Jane Austen• Walt Whitman• Charles Dickinson

• George Eliot• Leo Tolstoi• Henrik Ibsen• Sigmund Freud• Marcel Proust• Virginia Woolf• Franz Kafka• Jorge Luis Borges• Pablo Neruda• Fernando Pessoa • Samuel Beckett

In Finland• Shakespeare: Hamlet, Romeo and

Juliet• Kalevala• Runeberg: Fänrik Ståls sägner• Topelius: Birch and star• Aleksis Kivi: Seven brothers• Gogol: Overcoat

• Ibsen: Doll house• Minna Canth: Priest’s family• Strindberg: Miss Julie• Kianto: Red line• Juhani Aho: Juha• Sillanpää: Silja• Mika Waltari: Sinuhe, Egyptian• Orwell: Animal farm• Steinbeck: Pearl

• Camus: L’étranger, Stranger• Väinö Linna: Unknown soldier• Tove Jansson: Moominpapa and the sea• Veikko Huovinen: Havukka-aho’s philosopher• Arto Paasilinna: Year of hare, Le lièvre de Vatanen•  

Pisa measurements

• 2003 2006 2009• 1. Finland 546 1. Finland 543 1. Korea 556 1. Shanghai

556• 2. Canada 534 2. Korea 534 2. Finland 547 2. Korea 539• 3. New Zealand 529 3. Canada 528 3. Hongkong 536 3. Finland 536• 4. Australia 528 4. Australia 525 4. Canada 527 4. Hongkong 533• 5. Ireland 527 5. New Zeland 525 5. New Zealand 521 5. Singapore

• Finnish students’ mean score has hardly changed through the cycles with 546, 543, 547 and 536 points.

• Relatively small impact students’ home background has on students’ performance (8.3% compared to the OECD average of 14.5%).

• The biggest gender difference. importance Finnish boys and girls attribute to doing well among the school subjects

• http://www.pisa2006.helsinki.fi/oecd_pisa/oecd_pisa.htm