Is Friday the 13th an unlucky day?

In my last blog I promised to tell you more about my students learning process.

I am responsible for a group that is studying Sales Management and Marketing. All students are working fulltime, and almost half of the group is working within banking and finance. Then there are entrepreneurs and those who work in retail (food). Their exam is divided in three parts/courses, two mandatory and one optional.

Last summer I started to plan for their optional part/course – marketing. I also chose to practice as VET-teacher within this course.

 I estimated that four days is maximum for the group to attend classroom studies. This mean that their learning process to a large extent should be based on didactic methods suitable for distance/ /blended/digital learning.

To this date I have been teaching and meeting the group for three full days here at Campus Kungsgården in Vasa. I have coached the group in many different ways to support their learning processes since September. I have noticed very positive results and my estimate is that the group has reached about 80 % of the learning goal for this course

This I why I rather describe my students as professionals in the middle of the Ostrobothnian business life, rather than pupils in a classroom. And my role I describe as the facilitator for the learning process.

It´s the first time for both me and YA! to plan and give this course. This mean that I had start from scratch. I`ve had a lot of fun although I spent o lot of hours planning, developing, teaching and coaching.

Last Wednesday morning before my students arrived, I brought coffee and tea from the Campus main building. Not until it was too late I recognised that the teapot was leaking water all over my trousers. My right leg was soaking wet and I had a good story to tell when we started at 09:00 am.

The second picture shows the classroom and me trying to teach how the Deming circle should be used in marketing planning.

I had to edit my blogpost , - These last lines i write on Saturday, when we have heard about the terrible things that has happened i Paris, France. Lets pray for all victims and I wish strenght to everybody that is concerned in any way.

/kim