Strengthening of Expert Profile (5 ECTS)

Objective

The student learns to bring forth their own expertise in different expert networks. The student receives tools and experience to consider their own goals and objectives, and is able to anticipate various options in applying their own expertise. The strategy of lifelong learning guides the teaching throughout the course.

Having completed this course, the student is able to:

- Identify and bring forth their own expertise in relation to the operational field and its other operatives.
- Have a target-oriented and versatile approach in assessing and developing their own expertise.
- Take part in collective learning and sharing of received information within different expert communities.
- Understand the value of applying their own expertise in various sectors of the society.
- Define and justify their own professional ethic principles as a specialist and as a developer of the job sector.
- Define and justify their own professional ethic principles and their own expertise as a developer of the job sector in both Finnish and English.

Content

- Writing the Individual Study Plan (ISP).
- The goals and methods of lifelong learning.
- Presenting skills verbally, in writing and virtually.
- Expert profile; an understanding of the self as a leader of collaborative development work.
- Collaborative work; reflection and giving feedback as well as peer review and support.
- Sharing of expertise and influential action.

Evaluation scale

0-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

- Students know how to identify and bring forth their own expertise.
- Students know the principles of self-reflection and developing their own activities in addition to understanding the importance of collaborative learning in various expert communities.
- Students have completed the assignments and participated in contact teaching.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

- Students can bring forth their own expertise in relation to the operational field and other operators.
- Students have a versatile and target-oriented approach to evaluating and developing their expertise.
- Students are capable of collaborative learning and sharing of knowledge in different expert communities.
- Students understand the value of applying their own knowledge in different sectors of the society.
- Students identify their own professional ethic principles as an expert and a developer of the job sector.
- Students have completed the assignments within deadlines and participated actively and constructively in contact teaching.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

- Students can evaluate and bring forth their own expertise in relation to the operational field and other operators.
- Students master versatile methods of evaluating and developing their own expertise.
- Students are able to support collaborative learning and sharing of knowledge in different expert communities.
- Students act according to and covey to others their own professional ethic principles as an expert and a developer of the job sector.
- Students have completed the assignments within deadlines and participated constructively in contact teaching while inspiring others to join in.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

- Students know how to identify and bring forth their own expertise.
- Students know the principles of self-reflection and developing their own activities in addition to understanding the importance of collaborative learning in various expert communities.
- Students have completed the assignments and participated in contact teaching.