Interaction in teaching and tutoring

Haaga-Helia is a private university of applied sciences that provides education for professionals and specialists in business and services.

Competence requirements

The development activities of a professional teacher are built on the knowledge of vocational education research.

A professional teacher's tutoring and teaching interaction enables dialogue and participation and takes into account the diversity of students.

Expected learning outcomes

• You can identify and explain types of interaction in teaching and tutoring situations.

• You identify and develop the effects of your own thinking and actions, as well as your feelings and attitudes, on teaching and tutoring interaction.

• You enable dialogue and can build confidential interaction with students.

• Through various interactive means, you can support students' inclusion, well-being, and experience of safety to promote their ability to study in diverse learning environments.

• You are able to anticipate and take into account typical tensions in teaching and supervision interactions.

• You can adapt your ways of expression to suit the respective learner groups.

• You are able to justify and critically evaluate your pedagogical decisions, activities and solutions on instructional and learning design using source material and pedagogical literature. You modify your personal theoretical views on learning and teaching through your activities.

• You reflect on your competence, development needs and opportunities. You recognise the development of your teacher's identity.