Becoming a Teacher 3

Becoming a Teacher 3 is a follow-up course for students who already successfully finished all the courses of the minor education and want to professionalize themselves as a teacher in a second subject and aim at receiving a second degree teaching certificate for a second school subject. In the course, like in the course Becoming a Teacher 2, theory on learning and instruction will be applied and tested in classroom settings. Students continually reflect on and learn from their experiences, through assignments (both individual and group work), group intervision and feedback sessions, discussion and theory. They learn to analyze classroom events, to solve classroom-related problems and to develop themselves. Moreover, like in the course Course Development, the course covers the processes of structurally planning, developing and iteratively designing a lesson series and a multidisciplinary project in secondary education. This part of the course consists of individual assignments. Students will actually design an innovative lesson series for their secondary school subject or vocational education and training programme, based on educational, curriculum, and learning theories.

• Critically review (existing) lesson series in the context of secondary education, using theories or models of instructional and curriculum design

• (re)design a coherent lesson series and a multidisciplinary project in collaboration with teachers and/or peer students from other disciplines

• Develop concrete lesson plans, learning goals and learning activities

• Critically analyse existing and develop new activating and innovative teaching and assessment methods and to justify made choices

• Critically evaluate courses and school practices

• Explicitly and critically reflect upon their teaching-related views and competencies on the basis of theoretical insights and empirical data and to display an innovative and pro-active attitude towards educational development (reflection on personal/professional development)

• Analyse classroom experiences and draw evidence-based conclusions to improve teaching practices in subject matter, didactics and pedagogy

• Create learning activities that foster a powerful learning environment

• Organise a learning environment that is well-structured, clear and task-oriented

• ? (0%) Students can pass the course if they have sufficiently conducted their internship and all the assignments.
• ? (100%) The quality of the portfolio.

Becoming a Teacher Basics; Learning and Instruction Theory; Becoming a Teacher 1; Becoming a Teacher 2; Course Development. If Dutch is not your native language, proof of C1 level is required.

• Literature will be provided via Brightspace.