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MGLU1520

Field Practice, Teacher Education (5-10) Year 1

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Level Foundation courses, level I

Course start Autumn 2025

Duration 2 semesters

Language of instruction Norwegian

Location Trondheim

Examination arrangement Practical training

About the course

Course content

The main theme in the first academic year is the teacher in interaction with students. Practice is a study, testing, and learning arena, which should be varied, guided, and assessed.

Learning outcome

Knowledge: The student

Has knowledge of the teacher’s fundamental tasks in meeting students and parents.
Can recognize and reflect on academic, social, and aesthetic learning processes.
Is aware of the importance of their own relational competence in various interactions with children and adults in school.

Skills: The student shall, both alone and in cooperation with others,

Contribute to the practice group functioning as a professional learning community.
Plan specific learning activities based on national and local plans.
Take responsibility for leading small student groups in specific learning activities.
Reflect on teaching and learning using basic learning theory and didactic perspectives.

General competency: The student

Actively participates and contributes to learning together with the practice group.
Observes and reflects on the interaction between teacher and students in various learning situations.
Has knowledge of and demonstrates fundamental relational competence and insight into professional ethical perspectives in interaction with children and adults.

Learning methods and activities

In collaboration with the practice group, practice teacher, and follow-up teacher from NTNU, the student shall plan, observe, implement, and assess various learning processes.

Activities related to practice can also take place on campus.

Through practice, students shall gain teaching experience in their own teaching subjects. Beyond this, students should contribute to the school’s professional community.

Through practice, students shall utilize planning documents as tools in planning and evaluating learning situations, as well as regularly write individual reflection logs and view these in light of theory.

5 days of observation practice and 25 days of teaching practice throughout the year.

Further on evaluation

All practice is mandatory. Only illness or pre-approved leave is valid absence. This also applies to activities related to practice that take place on campus.

The practice course is assessed as pass/fail. A student cannot appeal the assessment result in practice. The student can appeal formal errors in the assessment process. A student has the right to be offered one new practice period if practice is assessed as not passed. For more information: See Academic Regulations for NTNU § 5-10.