What I have learned from Working-life Orientation

Working-life Orientation is one of the VOC2 5 themegroups, which student teachers have created a learning environment for other group of students to learn about working-life at Finnish Vocational Education and Training institutions.

Imange from: http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/challeng.html

 

Here are my answers for the questionnaire in the part 6: What did you learn?

 

 

 

1.     Find in the framework of working-life oriented learning the key aspect you find most important at the moment. Why did you choose this aspect?

Thank you for the teacher team of working-life Orientation, I have learned quite much about the working-life learning through the tasks given to us from the excellent learning environment.

I would say the key aspect I have found from the framework of working-life oriented learning is that I would like to expend my views on working-life from now to the future aspect. Because the future is the time which new technologies will play major roles to improve globalized educational systems, I would like to be the one of the changing forces to get there.

 

2.     What are the working-life oriented learning environments that you have experienced as most useful and why?

I have done two working-life learning experiences as a job-seeker to know about whether I would like to change my career from IT engineer to teacher. It was useful experience to get to know about working-life in Finnish educational institutions. Although, I have learned, managed and collaborated well through performing my tasks, I have found my-self that the working places were not ideal for my future.  So the best learning from the experiences was I need to move forward to develop myself further and find other opportunities sometime later. 

 

3.     In your opinion what are the key factors for successful working-life oriented learning guidance and why?

In my opinion, key factors for successful working-life oriented learning guidance is to find the position of myself where my natural skills and attitudes to be contributed when collaborating with all the parties.  In the natural state of mind, I am more collaborative and creative to resolve any problems or issues occurring in the working-life environment.

 

4.     What was your personal take away from the interview about developing your future working-life competences?

I as a prospective teacher of ICT subject, I would like to seek more information how world will be changed and why. This is because not only for my sake of knowing but for guiding students to the right direction considering the overall picture of global changes.  This kind of future know-how will help me to be motivated for further searching and developing my skills needed in the future.

 

 

Written by SMKD