29th of April conclusion and reflection day of studying about guidance and counseling

First we did activity called happy land where we choose from the given fields where we would like to see ourselves from social worker, entrepreneur , researcher , conventional or art, after we explained  the reasons of choosing and how we think about our team.

Then we filled surveys about self assessment which helped to find out our strength and weaknesses how to develop ourselves and in which direction should we move.

The second activity was about our future self. We imagined that we are having meetings in 5 years and telling each other what we achieve in career and self developing, it was useful to make a plan for future work and plan to implement new ideas which we learned here in Finland to Kazakhstan.

Then we were familiarized with the activity called Thinking hats method which is improved analytical and creative thinking of individual and team. We reflected our thoughts and feelings and learning experiences and sharing them into group.

Red hat presents feelings,spontaneous reactions, subjective experiences

Black hat present criticism, mistakes and risks

White hat is a facts, knowledge,applications

Green hat presents ideas,creative thinking, new viewpoints

28th of April competences

We did exercise called 'remembering a successful event during your career'. And answered for the questions like What did you do?, What kind of competences and skills did you use?, Which were your strength ?, What else did you need?, What did you

Learn from yourself? And working in group we answered to these questions and share our insights after we present our group competences

Competence categories

Social skills include teamwork,adaptability,interpersonal skills

Generic skills consist creativity,problem solving, independent work,project management, leadership.

Communication skills include oral and written, public speaking, communication in foreign languages.

Technical skills is computer and other technical skills

Business awareness represent cost awareness,marketing skills and financial management

Inter cultural awareness

Expertise- theoretical framework, analytical skills, research skills,the appliance go science, tolerance,general knowledge

23th of April guidance and counsellor at schools

We learned activity called psychometric circle in which class members stayed in circle and tell their name and birthday by forming the circle by according to alphabet and date of birth. Then they do exercise called "am I only one who..." It helps to build a good atmosphere and trust, very good for the starting the workshops.

After we shared our knowledge and opinions about student counsellors main responsibilities.

Basic education

Objectives set by a national curriculum

Study counsellors work at schools

Class based lessons(76 hours)

Lessons about self knowledge, learning skills,professions, occupations,introduce upper secondary schools

Personal counseling 

Study visits, work experience (8 grade a week, 9 grade 2 week)

Co operation with parents, student welfare system team etc.

National joint application system

Transfer to the next school level

Counseling in general upper secondary schools

Objectives set by a national curriculum

Study counsellors work at schools

One compulsory course in counseling (called education, work and the future)

Personal counseling 

Planning the studies and courses

Matriculation exam

Career counseling

Tutoring students training

Student welfare team

Marketing 

Idea in our school psychologists need to work as a counsellors 

Goal

Reality

Obstacles, options

Way forward

22th of April we learned to use Moodle as a teacher

We have learned to use moodle as a teacher,to create moodle course then to add students or delete them as well as divide students into groups. After we learned how to upload different documents here such as word, PP, different links, learn how to organize the pages, create forums and make assignments for students, to make quiz for users.I used this great opportunity and opened my own course in NIS schools moodle platform.

We added diversity of resources such as page, URL, folder, file etc. Moodle is good platform for asynchronous learning, for organizing workshops,

19th of April reading some of interesting activities which can be useful for the lesson

Tabloid titles- Ask students to write a tabloid-style headline that would illustrate the concept currently being discussed. Share and choose the best. Variation: can be used to ask them to sum up the entire course in one sentence.

Truth statements - either to introduce a topic or check comprehension, ask students to list out "It is true that..." On the topic being discussed. The ensuing discussion might illustrate how ambiguous knowledge is sometimes.

Chain notes(useful for finding out the opinions of students)- Instructor pre distributes index cards and passes around an envelope, on which is written a question relating to the learning environment (I.e. Are the group discussions useful?) Students write a very brief answer, drop in their own card, and pass the envelope to the next student.

18th of April self learning day about activities for the lesson

1) What is the principle- Put mathematical problem to think about it, after recognizing the problem, students assess what principles, formulas to apply in order to solve it. Helps focus on problem types rather than individual specific problems. Principles and formulas should be listed out.

2) True or False- Distribute index cards(one to each student) on which is written a statement or mathematical task with the answers which can be not true.Half of the cards will contain the statements that are true, half false. Students decide if theirs is one of the true statements or task with true given answers, using whatever means they desire. Variation: designate half the room a space for those who think their statement are true, and the other half for false.

3) Real world- have students discuss in the class  how a topic or concept relates to a real- world application or product. Then have students write about this topic for homework. Variation: ask them to record their answer on index cards.

4) Advice letter- Students write a letter of advice to the future students on how to be successful students in that course.

17 th of April observation in kauriela school

I learned next activities which helps to any subject teacher to use them in their lessons:

1) Pass the chalk- provide a chalk or a soft toy,whoever has it must answer to your next question, and they pass it on to the students of their choice.

2) Students highlight key passages of the reading and there is silence until someone wants to read his or her out, and others follow. End with brief writing about what they learned from the sentences.

3) The half class lecture- divide the class in half and provide reading materials to one half. Lecture on that same material to the other half of the class. Than switch the groups and repeat, ending with a recap by pairing up members of opposite groups.

4) Tournament - divide the class into at least two groups and announce a competition for most points on a practice test. Let them study a topic together and then give that quiz,tallying points. After each round, let them study the next topic before quizzing again.the points shoul be carried over from round to round. The student impulse for competition will focus their engagement onto material itself.

5) Reflection-students write for one minute on a specific question. For example, what was the most important thing you learned today? Or ask about the most confusing point, instead. Best used at the end of the class session.

6) Goal ranking and matching- students rank their goals for the class, then instructor combines these with his or her own list. Useful before starting course, when constructing objectives together.

7) Drawing for understanding- students illustrate an abstract concept or idea. Comparing drawings around the room can clear up misconceptions.

16th of April we summarized our knowledge about assessment

We gave feedback for self- assessment and feel the special table which was tool for assessing oneself and peers. We decided that constructing questions is important, and when  students know that they

will be assessed they try to work hardly and participitated in group work actively.

When the chief tastes the source it is formative assessment, when the customer tastes, it is summative.

15th of April self-assessment

Exercise for self-assessment by choosing toys and describe the feeling about yourself it also helps to break the ice between students and teacher, helps to build trust. Very useful before the starting course as well as in the end of course to summarize by asking question which is relevant.

Assessment iceberg -teacher has to be able to see talents, knowledge, potentials,... Under the surface of the ocean. Different methods and pedagogical tools help to see them.

Assessment sometimes can be difficult, it can be war between real ability and encouraging opportunities.

Afternoon we were introduced with self assessment work and teacher gave us the assignment to create the context in which we can show types of assessment such as pre assessment, assessment during the course and final assessment.

14th of April assessment in Finnish schools

Pupil assessment consist two types-assessment during the course(formative) and final assessment(summative )

4-failing, 5- adequate , 8- good, 10- excellent

Tasks of assessment during the course

To guide and encourage studying, to depict how well the pupil has met the objectives, to help the pupil form a realistic image of his learning and development

Tasks of final assessment 

To define how well at the conclusion of his studies the pupil has achieved the objectives

Principles of assessment 

Must be truthful, based on evidences,ongoing feedback from the teacher, assessed in relation to the curriculum and descriptions of good(8) performance

Final assessment must be nationally comparable and all the criteria for final assessment have been prepared for all core subject.

The description of good(8)level of performance specify on a national basis. When numerical grading used the description of good performance determines the level for 8  the description helps the teacher assess the pupils progress.

Pupils promoted to the next grade if he completed all studies at least adequate (5), pupils may also promoted to the next grade, even when they have failing grades, if they are judged to be able to cope with the next school year studies acceptable.

Subject and behavior are evaluated numerically or by verbal summarize or combination of the two.

Only pupil and his or her parents have the access to the result of his or her assessment .

11th of April. We presented and explain for our colleagues about collaborative learning

Zhanat and I organize today a workshop about student centered way of teaching and learning-Collaborative learning. We explained theoretical material and did two activities, so working in groups our colleagues shared with their understanding of CL as well as how they can use it in their lessons. Feedback for workshop was positive and thank all for participation.

9-10th of April we participated in the conference about skills competition and Conference about ICT in education

I make a iMovie so you could find it if you are interested,if saying overall for two days we had been participated in conferences. First day we had visited in exhibition in lahti and participated in the conference about skill competitions in Finland and EU. The organization and quality was in high level, I dare say that we must learn how to organize such beneficial competitions in our country, of course, it is not easy, however it's benefit for our people will paid off all the expenses.

Next day we have been participated in the conference and exhibition about ICT technologies in education, there were Representers of companies who provide with variety of hardware and software which are modern and easy to use.

8th of April we had learned to use Prezi.com and make presentations

FI made one prezi presentation, put music also we can share it with colleagues. Get familiarize ourselves with QR code.

After we learned to open and create our own web site in sies.google.com. I opened and created site and named it misterrinatssite. Create pages called homework,materials for lesson,my pedagogical works and articles as well as horizontal pages bolashak  Facebook, my old site in ucoz and etc in which we may give URL address. At the end we shared our created sites.

7th of April learning IT skills

We familiarize ourselves with the type of e-learning such as contact learning,blended learning,self-learning and collaborative learning and had discussed which is suitable for us  teachers better.

Types of learning environment:open, semi-open, closed.

PLE- personal learning environment 

Flipped classroom idea:students get familiar with key concepts of learned materials beforehand by small learning objects(like a video). In classroom they can use time for working in practice.

We need to use www.mindmaster.com it is very convenient for making mind map 

Afternoon we engaged to work in the application called poppet and create so called popped document

Also I had learned to make podcasts by using voice recorder called Quickvoice which one can download for free

4th of April reflection of the week about using ICT in lessons and integrated lessons

Today our group members with their peers presented their ideas to deliver lessons by using different sort of ICT in the lessons so to make the lesson more productive and interesting as well as making integrated lessons between different subjects. Many of them used demonstration wolfram and showed to others useful parts of the lessons that we can use it in our pedagogy. We with Zhandos gave a lesson when we tried to use ICT in math lesson and integrated lesson with the subjects math, geography and engineering in which we also used PBL and authentic learning. Problem was how we can find out the width of local river by using only 1 meter long stick.

Afternoon we had a meeting with Seija and talked about our project work and create some ideas about our project.

2nd of April- authentic learning, scaffolding,relevance, ZPD

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AL-students are more likely to be interested in what they are learning if they are learning mirrors real life contexts, useful skills and topics that are relevant and applicable to their lives outside the school.

Scaffolding - variety of instructional techniques used to move and support students progressively toward stronger understanding and greater independence in the learning process.(teachers provide temporary support that helps students reach higher levels of comprehension and skill acquisition that they would not be able to achieve without assistance )

ZPD the distance between actual development level as  determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adul guidance or with peers.

Relevance this term refers to learning experience that are directly applicable to the personal aspirations, interests of students or that are connected in some way to real world problems and issues.