Leading a group (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

Leading a group- course consists of intensive coachings, advance assignments and literature, and also Project Hatchery guidance. During the course student will orientate to Basic priciples of Group leading (i.e. Group dynamics, phases of Group development, management, motivating, steering) through theory and peer learning methods. Afterwards student will apply theory into practice during the Project Hatchery.

Mutual coaching days are in Finnish, so coachings in English will be organised as separately agreed face-to-face meetings. (Contact Jonna Heikkilä for more information).

Leading the Project Hatchery:
• Hatchery meetings every Wednesday from 12 am to 4 pm from September to December
• Active participation, guidance and observation
• Steering the study group sessions 3 times during the autumn
• Regular meetings with the guidance teams (twice a month)
• Feedback and assesment discussions
• Communication and guidance outside the Hatchery days

Objective

In this study unit student will learn relevant theoretical knowledge of leadership and will get opportunity to try out own leading skills in practice. Student acting as a tutor student in the Project Hatchery, where a multidisciplinary group of first year students working together on own project. Student tutor´s tasks are (for example) plan activities for project hatchery and give guidance for students. Student tutor will get support from teacher and other student tutors during the working.

Content

Study unit consists from
• intensive trainings
• individual tasks and readings
• leading the own project hatchery, including meetings with teacher and other student tutors, active communication, evaluation and feedback
sessions

The study unit will be assessed by 0-5. The final grade will be formed from teacher´s and project hatchery students´ feedback. Also, the student´s own activity in intensive training days and carrying out the advance tasks are taken into account in the assessment.

Materials

Assigments in English are sent via email and shared during the face-to-face meetings.

Teaching methods

During the coachings, functional and active learning methods. During the Hatcheries student's own activity and responsibility is emphasized.

Exam schedules

No final exam. Submission of final report in December 2020.

Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development

Innovation pedagogy, in which communal and interactive learning is emphasized. Student has an active responsibility on one's own learning.

Student workload

Coachings, independent assignments (advance assigments, final report and feedback form) and literature = app. 35 hours
Leading the Hatchery = app. 100 hours

Evaluation methods and criteria

Assesment consists of assesments by the responsible course teacher, by the Hatchery teacher and by the Project Hatchery students, and also student's selfassesment.

1) Teacher assesment (1-5)
• Communication, reachability, and completing the agreed issues (1-5)
• Active participation in guidance teams (1-5)
• Self-initiativeness in the Hatchery and in the guidance teams (1-5)
2) Hatchery students' assesment (1-5)
3) Self-assesment (1-5)
• Communication, reachability, and completing the agreed issues (1-5)
• Active participation in guidance teams (1-5)
• Self-initiativeness in the Hatchery and in the guidance teams (1-5)
4) Submission of the course assigments (1-5)
• Sticking to the agreed schedules and deadlines (personal assignments and Hatchery's outputs)
• Correspondence to the assigment (1-5)
• Diversity and extent of the contents (1-5)

Further information

Preference is that students, who sign up for Leading a group-course, has completed the Project Hatchery-course beforehand.