calendar_today Date: 14 March 2023 (Tuesday)
schedule Time: 12:30 – 1:30pm
location_on Venue: C-LP-06 (STEM Innovation Hub) or Online through Zoom
record_voice_over Speaker: Professor Satu-Maarit KORTE
University Lecturer,
Faculty of Education,
University of Lapland, Finland
class Moderator: Professor KONG Siu Cheung
Research Chair Professor of Department of Mathematics & Information Technology,
Director, Centre for Learning, Teaching and Technology
The Education University of Hong Kong
person Target: All staff
language Language: English

Participation in this seminar can be counted towards the Certificate Course “Introduction to Teaching in Higher Education” under the theme, “Seminars/Workshops in Learning and Teaching”.

Abstract

The professional development of a future teacher begins at school as a pupil. The memories and experiences together with teacher education form the starting point of our future teachers’ perceptions of teaching and what it means to be an ideal teacher. Finland’s pedagogical success is often explained by the high-quality teacher education and by the fact that teachers and schools have substantial autonomy. But how do the pre-service teachers develop into education experts? In this seminar you will hear how the primary school teacher program is organized at the University of Lapland, some surprising facts about the Finnish education system, and what the secret behind Finnish teacher education might be.

Speaker

Professor Satu-Maarit KORTE
University Lecturer,
Faculty of Education,
University of Lapland, Finland

Professor Satu-Maarit KORTE's Bio

Satu-Maarit is a University Lecturer (Media Education) at the Faculty of Education, University of Lapland, Finland and Associate Professor of Education in Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Norway. She teaches media education, life philosophy and digital technology use in education. Her key research interests are technology-mediated learning, media and psychosocial well-being, embodied cognition, Arctic and Indigenous pedagogical approaches together with social learning, and neural foundations of learning and memory.