International Conference on Forest Education: Breakout Group 2.2
Education and learning in the postmodern era are about social practices in the form of autonomy, adaptation, application, and expression. Digital technologies are disrupting the field of education in various ways, however, the human input by a teacher is still of the essence. Educators at all levels of education are thus in a key role in terms of teaching performance and thus learning outcomes. Session 2.2. is focusing on the important and challenging aspect of teaching competence. With teaching competency, we mean pedagogical knowledge, skills, motives and attitudes, and experiences as a teacher that makes the teacher’s work effectively in a specific context. The session is limited to vocational and tertiary level forest education and takes a perspective of administrators and teachers on teaching competency and recruitment processes. Especially, the focus is on recruitment, development, and compensation schemes related to teaching competence. Tools for teaching competence documentation include for instance credits in pedagogical education, Curriculum Vitae, teaching/academic portfolio, and teaching demonstrations. These practices are based both on traditional conventions and values of educational units and formal rules and regulations set at different levels. Seemingly, there is a strong need to develop the evaluation practices of teaching competency. The perspective in the session is that of administrators and teachers. In order to develop and streamline recruitment processes, we need to analyze the challenges that leaders and other administrators are facing – without forgetting the applicants during recruitment processes. The recruitment process and the way teaching competence is conceptualized during recruitment most likely have implications for how the applicants eventually develop their teaching competence during a teaching career. There are several ways in which teachers are supported and incentivized for developing their competence, including the tenure track system, formal training, certification and auditing, networking, peer-review, and compensations (salary and other rewards). Examples of these systems are introduced and discussed during the session.
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| Format: | Document biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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FAO ;
2021
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/CB5266EN http://www.fao.org/3/cb5266en/cb5266en.pdf |
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