Transcript In-Service Teacher Training

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Teacher education in Iceland University
of Education
Sólrún B. Kristinsdóttir
Head of the Mediacentre Iceland University of Education
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Facts
• 103.000 m³
• Half way between North America and the
European mainland.
• 280.000 inhabidants
• Icelanders are using more computers and internet
than most other nations
• The weather is typical of a mild coastal climate,
the average temperature in Reykjavik in July is
+10.6° C and in January -0.9° C.
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and figures about Iceland
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200 compulsory schools
Capital area 65 schools
85 schools have less than 100 students
10 schools have more than 600 students
42.500 students in compulsory schools
4000 teachers
82% whith occupational education
1000 attended In-service courses 2000
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Educational system
• Pre-school 6 months – 6 years
– 15% of 2 years and younger
– 75% 3 – 6 years
• Primary and lower secondary 6 – 16 years
compulsory
– 42.000 pupils in 200 schools
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Educational system
• Upper secondary 16 – 20 years
– 85% enter
– 30 schools
• Colleges
– Technical, vocational, arts
• 6 Universities
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Iceland University of Education IUE
• 2000 Students
• About 230 Members of staff
• About 50% distance learning students leading to new approaches in how to
conduct the education
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Teacher education
• B.Ed. 3 years
– Qualified fo teach at primary and lower
secondary level
• B.A. B.S. + didactics
– Qualified to teach at upper secondary level
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Teacher Education in Iceland
• The Department of Undergraduate Studies includes five divisions:
More than 1800 students are enrolled.
– Division of Early Childhood Education
– Division of Primary and Lower Secondary Education
– Division of Upper Secondary Education
– Division of Sport and Physical Education
– Division of Developmental Therapy
• Most programmes are offered both as a full time residency
programme and by distance education. Four of these divisions offer
three-year programmes, 90 units (180 ECTS), leading to a B.Ed.degree
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Division of Primary and Lower Secondary Education
A choice of fifteen subject specializations:
• Art Education
• Craft Design and
Technology
• Danish as a foreign
language
• English as a foreign
language
• Geography
• Home Economics
• Icelandic
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• Life Sciences
• Mathematics
• Physical Education and
Sports
• Physics and Chemistry
• Social Studies and History
• Religion
• Textiles
• Music.
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Postgratuate studies
• The postgraduate programme offers courses
from 15 to 60 units (30-120 ECTS) for
professionals in education and social work.
• Some about 450 students are enrolled at the
postgraduate level in the Iceland University
of Education.
• All of them are taking part in Distance
Education.
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Web-Based education
• Distance education in IUE is more or less
webbased
• Webbased education calls for a different
support service of the educational
institusions.
• Computer technology – Educational
technology – Instructional design
• Staff developments
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Difference between on campus and
distance learning
• Students ditributed over the country and abroad
• Learning communities
• Teacher-students relationship
• Dropouts from distance students
• Teaching style
• Communication technology in reaching students
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The Support Service
The service of the Mediacentre includes:
• Setting up the webcourses
• Instructions on how to use the course tools for:
– Students
– Staff
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The role of the Media Centre
• Workshop – computers, laptops, computer
projectors, cameras, video cameras, sound
editing equipments
• In sevice assistance for staff and students
regarding production of teaching and
learning material, software and ICT
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Personnel- MediaCentre
• 6 members of staff
– 3 Computer technicians
– 3 Educational technologists
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Computer techincians in the
MediaCentre
• Their role is to serve the students and the
staff at the desk, telephone and e- mail
• Facing problems such as students access to
the net and online – courses, editing of
videos and sound, printing, students´ and
staffs´ problem with various softwear
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Teachers in the MediaCentre
• Emphasise on the
– pedagogical use of the courstools
– importance of the communication tools
– planing their course regarding time schedules,
assignments
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The Media Centre – staff
developments
• Staff develpoment provided by the Media Centre
includes:
• Courses in how to use the coursetools
• Open Wokshop – teaches can come at a given time
with any problems regarding the Web, Courstools
and softwaer they are using (mainly Microsoft)
• Individual assistance
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Teachers in the MediaCentre
• Development of an Icelandic course tool
Netskólinn
• Developing websides for courses,
Náttúrufræði
• Implementing databases to various web
sides Soljak
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Future developments
• All courses at IUE will be offered at the
Web
• Students can choose if they take the course
on the web or at the campus
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Future developments
• Courses at the IUE will be offerd to people who wants to
add to their education – preeschool/primary/secondary
teachers, art/craft/sport teachers, ddevelopmental
therapists/special needs teachers
• IUE is growing to the Net - based Universities ideas
• Developments in the Nordic countries is a cooparation
between Universities in offering courses on the Veb and
the students can take courses in different Universities.
Model known in USA and UK(OU)
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Courswear developmentsconnecting faculty not computers
The predictions of Stephen Downes, Thomas Cyrs, and others, is that
courseware is going to change dramatically over the next five year or
so. The generic toolsets are going to get better, and more disciplinespecific tools. It makes more sense to teach faculty to think in terms of
tools and what they can do than in terms of creating courses packaged
in standalone units.
• Ultimately, it seems that universities that thrive in an online environment
will do so because they are able to offer something that other schools
cannot. For us, that "something" is in large part the experience and
expertise of our faculty, so it makes sense to use the technology to
connect faculty -- not courses -- to students.
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Some history of Iceland
• Iceland was setteled by Nordic people in the
9th century
• The language is Icelandic. It is more or less
the same language that the Nordic countries
spoke when the settlers came to Iceland. To
the other Nordic countries Icelandic is in a
way like Latin to the Italians
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...more history
• In 930 the Icelandic settlers founded one of the
world´s first republican goverments
• Iceland lost it´s independancy in 1262, Gamli
sáttmáli, and became a part of the Norwegian
/Danish kingdom
• In 1918 it regained it´s independancy from
Danmark and in 1944 the present republic was
founded
• The country is governed by Althingi (parlament)
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Economy
• Nearly three quarters of merchandise export
comes from the seafood industry and half of
all foreign exchange earnings
• Income per capita is among the best in the
world
• High standard of living
• Life expectancy at 81,3 for women and 76,4
for men
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