Field Practice, Teacher Education (5-10) Year 1

The main theme in the first academic year is the teacher in interaction with students. Practice is a study, testing, and learning arena, which should be varied, guided, and assessed.

Knowledge: The student

• Has knowledge of the teacher’s fundamental tasks in meeting students and parents.
• Can recognize and reflect on academic, social, and aesthetic learning processes.
• Is aware of the importance of their own relational competence in various interactions with children and adults in school.

Skills: The student shall, both alone and in cooperation with others,

• Contribute to the practice group functioning as a professional learning community.
• Plan specific learning activities based on national and local plans.
• Take responsibility for leading small student groups in specific learning activities.
• Reflect on teaching and learning using basic learning theory and didactic perspectives.

General competency: The student

• Actively participates and contributes to learning together with the practice group.
• Observes and reflects on the interaction between teacher and students in various learning situations.
• Has knowledge of and demonstrates fundamental relational competence and insight into professional ethical perspectives in interaction with children and adults.

In collaboration with the practice group, practice teacher, and follow-up teacher from NTNU, the student shall plan, observe, implement, and assess various learning processes.

Activities related to practice can also take place on campus.

Through practice, students shall gain teaching experience in their own teaching subjects. Beyond this, students should contribute to the school’s professional community.

Through practice, students shall utilize planning documents as tools in planning and evaluating learning situations, as well as regularly write individual reflection logs and view these in light of theory.

5 days of observation practice and 25 days of teaching practice throughout the year.