LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: Norwegian (Possibly English if agreed upon in advance)
DEGREE: Obligatory part of the Teacher Training Program. No separate degree attached.
COURSE CONTENT: The practice is divided into practice periods lasting up to four weeks together. The student is part of a group in all the practice periods, and a practice teacher will comment the students work and tutor them during each period. In the first year the students finish a total of eight weeks of practice in upper primary school separated in two periods lasting four weeks each. In their second year the students finish first four weeks of practice in lower secondary school and later on four weeks in lower primary school. In their third year the students finish the last four weeks of practice, mainly during a practice where the students administrate and are responsible for all the activities at the schools involved, on behalf of the original staff at the schools.
The practice should give the students experience on the demands and expectations which the teacher is supposed to fulfil as a vital part of the educational system. The students should develop educational, didactical and methodical competence, social competence, the ability to change and develop further as a teacher, and ethical competence related to the role as a teacher.
The practice periods are a vital part of the topics which are studied, as they provide the opportunity to try out exiting new ideas of teaching, and provide examples from the life at schools to work with in the different topics in the Teacher Training Program.