In the first session, I met two different subjects that the other teams performed: “How do learning theories affect the planning of teaching in competence-based vocational education?” and “How do the official documents and regulations affect the planning of the teaching in your vocational field? Where can you find all this information?”.
First of all, I could find two learning theories; constructive alignment and inquiry-based learning. Constructive alignment is a well-organized method to lead students to achieve the tasks which is given to students. Before setting up the environment, teachers should designate the learning outcomes which is the topic content and level to understand. And they compose the teaching environment to make students take part in the workload in the class which can draw students to accomplish the purpose of the subject. Next assess students how much students follow the structures and if they do not manage to the outcomes, teachers should feedback and arrange optional studies to complement the shortage of their studying. The last thing is to grade students based on the assessment criteria. Students are able to notice how much they marked for their competence.
The other theory is Inquiry-based Learning. This method focus of asking question to students. It is specified to the part of the Constructive Alignment. The Constructive Alignment is the structure of the entire class, preparing to grading. Otherwise, Inquiry-based Learning is more detail way to approach to the specific situation. Teachers or students create questions about the subject. Students gain the factor of answers to solve the problem. After finding the supportive evidence, they explain it to and make a connection between the evidence and the knowledge designed by instructors to let students achieve. Finally, discuss students’ collection is proper or not and assess them that they reach to the goal.
The presentation about official documents and regulations affecting the plan. Official documents and regulations are prepared by educational institution. These are formal guidelines which should be followed by teachers who are working in each institutions such as vocational school, university and ministry of education. They give teachers great outline to refer and teachers plan, teach and assess based on the regulations and documents.
However, there are positive and negative sides which are caused by official documents and regulations. If a teacher applies the guideline and regulation excessively, students are hard to express their creativity in the class. The guideline would suppress their thoughts and varieties. Also, it could intrude teachers’ teaching styles. Every teacher has different characters so that students can be exposed in a wide range of environment but if there are too much regulation in the classroom setting, teacher limits their abilities and it affects negatively to students as well. Nevertheless, official documents and regulations are essential owing to generalizing the goal of the education in the country. If there are not any instruction, students would be confused by distraction which is made from too many various styles of teaching.
We can find the official documents and regulations in the websites of educational institutions. Each institutions have their own instructions and we can compare each others to figure out what is same and different. Moreover, we are able to catch the characteristic of the education in each institutions or countries. It is able to let us know and choose the right place to be employed.
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