Al Shaya

WEEK 9 REFLECTION

During that week there had been various learning activities. Acually, we spent two days with Jari Rantamäki, a presentation about Performance evaluation in educational institutions. Then we spent a very fantastic time in Workshop on mobile learning at Omnia. In fact, I liked this visit very much and I think it was one of the most useful activities in our program, because Omnia was a very organized school and we learned from their presentation many important technological uses and programs of mobile devices that could be very smart and active teaching and learning tools. However, the time was not so enough I wish if the visit was longer than it had been, but I think it would be better if it is taken into concentration to be 3 days or more if it's possible in the future.

Also, during this week we had spent very important moments with Merja and Katri and their teaching sessions were about Developing Vocational Education and Teaching. During that time they divided participants into small groups having each group discuss one teaching methodology, letting one of each group make a presentation about the discussed methodology. In my estimation, I think that way they used was brilliant and very beneficial for students, because this activity covered the most important pionts of our program and it had been targeted as a type of review to the material and information we had learnt many weeks ago. In addition, We had spent a very useful time with David during his guidance and counseling session. That session was about our teaching practice next week, in the group of the ocean team.  That meeting was very useful because he gave us many important advices, answered our enquiries and discussed some important ideas about our team work. In general, it was a good week.