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Internship Economics: Apprentice Stage (B-KUL-D0Q21A)

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Aims

During this internship, the students will be able to use observation and training in an authentic educational setting to effectively practice and develop the learning content learned in the theoretical part. Through evidence on the one hand and guided and individual reflection and review of their experiences on the other, they will gradually shape their growth line with the teacher's basic competencies as its foundation.

The teacher in secondary education (the level at which the academic teacher training program prepares) is a specialist teacher. As a result, the organization of the internship, the internship assignments and the supervision are mainly conceived in the context of the own field of economics.

The micro and meso tasks aim to give students a more diverse and broader view of the teaching profession and the school environment. Depending on the opportunities at the school and the student's personal development plan, a wide range of assignments can be chosen.

We aim to offer students a broader basis of support in order to smoothen the transition to the professional field.

Concrete elaborations, deadlines, tasks and objectives are described in the digital portfolio.

 

Upon completing the course unit, the student will be able to:

1. independently create a realistic and achievable work schedule and is able to complete assignments in a timely manner. When drawing up the planning and list of tasks, the student consults with all parties involved and correctly fulfills agreements.

2. in a correct way contact, consult, communicate and cooperate with both the internal (professors, colleagues ...) and external partners of the school, as well as the internship supervisors of the program.

3. work independently as well as in a team and adjust his/her functioning based on obtained feedback.

4. check his/her knowledge and skills acquired in other course units against professional reality and to deepen and broaden these where necessary, both in terms of internship assignments and reflection on these assignments. 

5. assess the initial situation of a group of students and recognize and name the characteristics that influence the quality of learning.

6. formulate concrete and operational objectives for each lesson, taking into account the broader educational framework (curricula, attainment targets and students' initial situation).

7. design and structure learning situations adapted to the didactic situation, the level of processing and the interest of the students.

8. choose and, if necessary, adapt teaching aids to the objectives of the subject economics and to the needs of the students.

9. create a lesson-related assessment: choose goal-oriented questions and assignments and determine assessment criteria.

10. build a positive interaction with the class as a group.

11. reflect in a positive-critical way on behaviour and approach, both individually and in consultation with others, and on this basis adjust his own behaviour and approach where necessary.

12. develop his teaching material using various ICT tools.

13. apply, broaden and deepen the acquired domain-specific knowledge and skills.

14. create a smooth and efficient course of lessons and days, fitting into the time schedule of the school.

15. update the growth line based on reflection and 360° feedback and using multimedia supporting evidence and selecting the reflection framework most appropriate for him.

16. interact appropriately in Standard Dutch with the learner and with all members of the school team and training institution.

 

Educational objective

The student can take the opportunities that arise in the various assignments to form themselves according to their own goals.

Previous knowledge

For this programme component, it is recommended that the following programme components be taken up simultaneously or have already been completed: Teaching Methodology: Economics, Didactic Applications, Internship Economics: Initiation Stage

Order of Enrolment

Mixed prerequisite:
You may only take this course if you comply with the prerequisites. Prerequisites can be strict or flexible, or can imply simultaneity. A degree level can be also be a prerequisite.
Explanation:
STRICT: You may only take this course if you have passed or applied tolerance for the courses for which this condition is set.
FLEXIBLE: You may only take this course if you have previously taken the courses for which this condition is set.
SIMULTANEOUS: You may only take this course if you also take the courses for which this condition is set (or have taken them previously).
DEGREE: You may only take this course if you have obtained this degree level.


(SIMULTANEOUS( Y05316 ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( D0Q31A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( D0Q34A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( D0Q35A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( HEM10A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( D0Q49A )) AND (SIMULTANEOUS( D0Q32A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( D0Q36A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( D0Q37A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( D0Q38A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( D0Q40A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( D0Q41A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( D0X40A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( Y05317 ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( HEM11A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( D0Q50A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( O0G70A ) OR SIMULTANEOUS( O0G71A )) AND SIMULTANEOUS( D0Q20A )

The codes of the course units mentioned above correspond to the following course descriptions:
Y05316 : Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
D0Q31A : Teaching Methodology: Economics
D0Q34A : Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
D0Q35A : Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
HEM10A : Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
D0Q49A : Teaching Methodology: Economics
D0Q32A : Applications in Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
D0Q36A : Applications in Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
D0Q37A : Applications in Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
D0Q38A : Applications in Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
D0Q40A : Applications in Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
D0Q41A : Applications in Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
D0X40A : Applications in Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
Y05317 : Applications in Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
HEM11A : Applications in Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
D0Q50A : Applications in Teaching Methodology: Economics (No longer offered this academic year)
O0G70A : Didactic Applications
O0G71A : Didactic Applications
D0Q20A : Internship Economics: Initiation Stage

This course unit is a prerequisite for taking the following course units:
D0Q23A : Internship Economics: International (No longer offered this academic year)

Is included in these courses of study

Activities

6 ects. Internship Economics: Apprentice Stage (B-KUL-D0Q21a)

6 ECTSDutchFormat: InternshipBoth terms
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Content

This OPO consists of three parts

- Minimally 16 lessons of independent internship, including co-teaching and evaluation, at an internship position of your choice (secondary school) (not a first degree secundary school)

- Meso activities

- Updating the growth line; reflection and review of internship experiences with  mentors at schools, internship supervisor and peers. 

In accordance with the School of Education's internship framework, the following conditions apply to the teaching internship as a whole:

Students will have the opportunity to:

  • observe educational realities in a minimum of two diverse contexts (e.g., in different finalities in secondary education, in secondary and adult or higher education, in a school and a business context), at least one should be in a secondary school; 
  • take responsibility, both in group and independently, for guiding learning processes in at least two diverse contexts. The spread of classes between these two forms of education works according to a fork from ¼ to ¾; 
  • function as a teacher at both classroom and school level; 
  • learn to deal with diversity and specific educational needs, and to be actively involved in dealing with care requests from students and parents; 
  • observe and help guide the student's assessment process; 
  • share questions with their peers and receive feedback;
  • gain experience in team teaching; 
  • develop activities related to all functional wholes of the competency profile teacher;
  • work within informal and non-formal educational contexts; 
  • integrate new educational technology into their internship; 
  • commit to teaching subject-related and cross-curricular topics; 
  • participate actively in a school for full days. 

The close relationship between professional field, teacher education and student is central in each case.

Detailed information can be found on Toledo.

Course material

Concrete elaborations, deadlines, tasks and goals are described on Toledo.  

  • The digital portfolio within this environment acts as a central tool for archiving, documentation, communication.  
  • All blank documents needed in function of the internship are also available on Toledo.

Format: more information

This course consists of a number of subtasks, which are briefly explained below. More concrete information about the assignments to be carried out can be found in the internship manual in the digital learning environment.

We encourage students to spend at least one full day at the internship location during this internship training component to get a feel of the reality of being a teacher.

For this course unit, the student should make his/her own contacts with the internship sites (of his/her choice).  Via the Flanders-wide registration platform www.lerarenstage.be, the student submits his/her internship application.

Students always use the templates provided on the digital learning environment and respect the deadlines.

Each student is paired with an internship supervisor from the programme.

Detailed information about the assignments and evaluation modalities are available in the digital portfolio via assignment and evaluation sheets.

Internship lessons

The student works independently but under the guidance of a specialist mentor from the school. This is an internship in secondary education that he selects himself.

The student provides at least 16 internship lessons, each linked to a lesson preparation, in accordance with the programme design. Team teaching, student evaluation and feedback discussions have their place within this internship OPO. 

At the end of the introductory internship, an interim feedback moment is organised to discuss the progress within the internship, starting from the PDP and the basic competences.

The student may deliver these internship lessons at the end of the introductory lessons and these precede the last part of the didactic internship training component. Indeed, the aim is to gradually increase the complexity of the assignments to enable optimal development of the student.

The student keeps the internship supervisor informed of his internship planning at all times. If the student does not announce this planning at least one week in advance, the assessments of the lessons that have already been given will not be included. Consequently, these lessons must be completed again.

Lesson preparations and didactic material must be included in the personal portfolio on the digital learning environment. Lesson preparations are also submitted to the subject mentor before the respective lesson, unless other arrangements have been made with the subject mentor.  

Assessment forms are completed or uploaded by the mentor in the digital portfolio.

Meso activities

To be taken up at an internship location of your choice and this in the amount of 10 to 15 hours in which

- the student carries out a minimum of four different assignments in which he or she assumes partly an observing and partly an active role;

- the assignments are generic and/or subject-related: a non-exhaustive list of tasks is available on Toledo.

The student chooses meso activities

- that are linked to two functional wholes from the teacher's basic competences that are not linked to teaching and differ from the those chosen for the meso activities carried out during other didactic internship components;

- in function of his growth line.

The motivation for his choice and experience gained are written out in the growth line in the digital portfolio.

The subject mentor(s) confirms the student's presence during these activities.

Intervision

In the final phase of this course unit, the student attends an intervision with peers and writes a learning report.

Growth line

The growth line is completed with supporting evidence and based on reflections and feedback discussions with the supervisor, mentors and peers.

 

Detailed information is available on Toledo.

Other modalities are possible for students with LIO valorisations. These are described on Toledo.

Evaluation

Evaluation: Internship Economics: Apprentice Stage (B-KUL-D2Q21a)

Type : Continuous assessment without exam during the examination period
Description of evaluation : Project/Product, Report, Process evaluation

Explanation


Evaluation characteristics

Conditions for receiving a score for this course unit are:

- the sixteen internship lessons, the meso activities, the completion of the growth line have been completed, in accordance with the predetermined agreements, to be found in the assignment sheet in the digital portfolio;

- an individual reflection interview with the internship supervisor and subject mentor has taken place;

- deadlines and deadlines (e.g. for bringing in the internship agreement and planning, assessment documents, etc.), set by the teacher(s) and communicated via the evaluation sheet on Toledo, are respected;

- all output (lesson preparations, learning report...) must be included in the student's digital portfolio;

- the evaluation documents completed by the subject mentor at the internship site are available in the digital portfolio.

- the templates made available on the digital learning environment have been used.

Correct use of Standard Dutch in spoken and written language is a requirement.

Determination of the final result

The result is calculated and expressed as a whole number out of 20. This result is determined by

- Boarding lessons

o the score given by the subject mentor:

  • per lesson (block), the subject mentor will give a score based on a course evaluation form;
  • after the four boarding lessons, the subject mentor will complete a final evaluation form;

o the score given by the internship supervisor from KU Leuven

o the scores relate to the quality of lesson preparation and lesson realisation.

- Portfolio: the quality and elaboration of the internship part and the growth line (including the meso activities)

The student's performance is central to the evaluation.

If the student does not participate in one of the partial evaluations, the student is given NA (not taken) for the entire course unit.

If the stipulated submission deadline is not respected, the student cannot take part in the final examination and the final assessment for the programme component will be NA (not taken), unless for a serious reason a new submission date is set after application.

If a student repeatedly or seriously fails to comply with the obligations described in the agreement with the internship school, the internship will be terminated and a final assessment for the course unit ‘not taken’ will be awarded. The student is not entitled to an alternative assignment, nor to a second examination opportunity.

If the total score is at least 10/20, the student acquires a credit for this course unit. A failing grade for this course unit is non-tolerable.

Detailed information is available on Toledo.

The pathes 'On-the-job learning' and 'Teacher-in-training' (LIO) have a number of variations to this.  These are clarified in documents that the student, who steps into one of those, receives by mail.

Information about retaking exams

This examinationmoment can only be used to supply missing documents.