MY FUTURE AS VOCATIONAL TEACHER

I spent most of my life as student either formal or informal, and through that journey I met a lot of teachers. Some of the teachers had no influence on my life. They were just ordinary and teacher-centered and I even forget their names, while some of them had inspired and guided me. I couldn’t for get how they succeeded to affect my personal and professional life positively.

Indeed my dream is to be a mentor and adviser educator, who inspires his students and clients.  My aim is to help the country of my origin and to be part of the education developers in there. The areas of my expertise are including internationalization of companies, Marketing, communication, customer care, entrepreneurship, project management, and personal training.

This diploma (professional teacher training) will give me an opportunity to utilize the above-mentioned expertise in my future career and to become a role model instructor and mentor.

Starting days in Oulu

The first two days of vocational teacher studies had took place 5-6.6.2014 in Oulu. During these days we had orientation of the whole program, such as basic rules, contents of the program and the tools will be used in the program. The group of our class had different nationality backgrounds; From Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. 

We had introduced each other, and during our introduction we had been grouped into different groups and filmed our introduction.  During the orientation day, we had checked adobe connect tool for our upcoming classes. To me it was the first time to use adobe connect tool. It was great experience.

At the lunchtime we went out of school, which was really quite interesting and fun. After the lunch we had been divided into groups and had given us an assignment to search QR codes inside the school building. This was really interesting task rather than sitting in the class.

We had been assigned to draw our first classroom or at least the one, which we still remember in our early childhood. The main idea behind this drawing was to understand the difference between a teacher centered and student centered classrooms, and how it will affect our future way of teaching?

 

Class-centered in my childhood memories  The above figure is the class that came in mind, and it can be is completely a teacher-centered classroom.  Almost all of the students’ drawing was same (teacher-centered class), and during my childhood education this approach was common in my country and still they are practicing it. Students were totally dependent upon to the teacher. He/she was everything in the class.  The challenge is how a person from completely class-centered will assure the balance between student centered class and teacher-centered class.  The whole journey of this study is how to ensure that my future classes will be student-centered, where discussion, argument, analysis, independent thinking, creativity, etc. will be encouraged.