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 criteria

As a vocational teacher, my actions are based on knowledge of vocational education.

• I develop my practical theory using scientific reasoning.

• I am able to provide pedagogical reasoning for my actions.

The vocational teacher’s interaction in contexts of teaching and tutoring supports dialogue, inclusion and pays attention to the diversity of students.

• I give my students time, attention, and respect in all encounters.

• I create possibilities for dialogue as part of teaching and tutoring.

• Through my own interaction, I promote students' participation, wellbeing and experience of safety.

• I guide and tutor individuals and groups, taking into account the diversity of students.

Competence demonstration

Describe your interaction and tutoring orientation when you act as a teacher in the teaching and tutoring situation of your choice. Consider how your values and experiences affect your interactive style. Reflect on what kind of feedback you have received and how it influences your interaction with others. What aspects of interaction are easy to you? What aspects are challenging?

Describe how, as a teacher, you handle modes of action that prevent interaction and promote each student’s experience of safety in a teaching or tutoring situation.

Describe how you would support dialogue and confidential pedagogical relationship in a teaching or tutoring situation.

Describe the interactive relationships, tensions and structures of the group (such as status, power, psychological and social, emotions).

Describe also how you reinforce confidential interaction relationships by using, for example, the skills of listening and discussion.

Describe the verbal and non-verbal communications in a teaching or tutoring situation. Identify and reflect on your own non-verbal actions.

Describe how you take into account all the students in, for example, the language you use, how you formulate the content, which points of view you choose, what kind of examples you provide.

Describe how in the interaction, you reached the goals set for the teaching or tutoring situation.

Assess your own competence in relation to competence requirements and competence criteria. Identify further needs and opportunities for development.

What kinds of changes do you notice in yourself (in your thinking, actions, emotions, attitudes)? Document your experiences and observations referring to the vocational education research base and pedagogical literature.