LT1029 Supervising School Placements Students 3.0 credits

The course addresses secondary and upper secondary school teachers that receive students on a placement for their profession exercise (VFU) .

A supervisor is essential for the development of teaching ability of teacher students and for training in applying their theoretical knowledge. This course intends to develop the participants' educational skills as supervisors for teacher students, partly through seminars and lectures that treat theories and models for learning and supervision and current regulations and how these should be applied at assessment, partly in discussions and reflections around how different assessment forms can be applied for evaluation and feedback, and the students' own supervisor role.

The course intends to develop the participants' educational skills as supervisors for teacher students.

After passing the course, the student should be able to:

• Give an account of theories and models for learning and supervision and reflect on how these can be applied during the supervision process.
• Give an account of the current regulations of teacher educations and how these can be applied for assessing the knowledge of teacher students.
• Discuss how different assessment forms could be applied to evaluate and feed back the students' knowledge, proficiencies and approaches.
• Actively reflect on one's own supervisor role in meetings with different student groups.

Completed teacher education or at least 180 higher education credits on teacher programmes.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• INL1 - Assignments, 2.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
• SEM1 - Seminars, 1.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Catarina Eivinsson

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.