Oslo March 2011

"Becoming a professional teacher: Novice teachers in schools and daycare institutions" Oslo 30th - 31th March 2011:

Oslo University College and Norwegian National Network for mentoring Newly Qualified Teachers in collaboration with Nordplus (NQT-COME) arrange an international conference in Oslo 30th - 31th March 2011:"Becoming a professional teacher: Novice teachers in schools and daycare institutions"
The goal for the conference is to create international arenas for the professional field and the university and college sector, focusing on the transition from education to profession as well as observing and following up new teachers in the profession. This conference will contribute to distinguish the Norwegian strategy for mentoring newly qualified teachers; a strategy that focuses on quality in mentoring and collaboration between the professional field and higher education. The conference will draw attention to mentoring newly qualified teachers in learning organisations: In which ways do the teacher educations and work places as learning arenaes contribute to mastering the profession?
The following themes will be central:
- culture for learning: newly qualified teachers professional development
- mentoring as a support system for newly qualified teachers
- quality in mentoring
- mentor education: best practices
The lectures in plenary will mainly be in English. Some of the parallell sessions will be held in Norwegian or another Scandinavian language.

The keynote lecture of the conference was given by Emeritus Professor Christopher Day at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Tuesday 29th March: NQT-COME project meeting

Oslo University College, Pilestredet 46. 2nd floor

11.00 Opening (Chaired by Wiebke Klages and Paul Robert Sundar)
Opening meeting: why are we here, what is NQT-COME?
Activities in the future
- symposium in ECER 2011 in September 2011
- meeting in Jyväskyla in September 2011
- meeting in Tallinn in May 2012
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Project work (Chaired by Hannu Heikkinen)
13.00 Working in special interest groups
15.00 Coffee break
15.30 Project work continues
Short prensentations of the special interest groups
Discussion
17.00 Evaluation of the project and collecting the required information (Chaired by Eve Eisenschmidt)
- preparing the report to be delivered june 15th
- preparing the report by questions
- group work electronic feedback in May
=> 18.00

19.00 Dinner

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Wednesday 30th March 2011: Conference program

Oslo University College, Pilestredet 46. 2nd floor
9.00 NQT-COME Project work continues
-> 10.30

Participating in the conference "Becoming a professional teacher: Novice teachers in schools and daycare institutions"

11:00 Welcome by Dean of Department of Teacher Education, Oslo University College , Knut Patrick Hanevik
11:20 Key note speaker: Christopher Day, professor and senior researcher at University of Nottingham, UK
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Parallell sessions. Poster sessions.
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Key note speaker: Vivi Nilssen, associate professor at Sør-Trøndelag University College
17:30 Closing
19:00 Evening arrangement (City Hall)

Thursday 31th March 2011: Conference program

09:00 Opening
09:15 Key note speaker; Gerd Sylvi Steinnes, PhD recipient, Volda University College
10:15 Parallell sessions
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Poster session
14:00 Panel debate: The Nordic perspective. Participants from Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Norway.
14:45 Key note speaker: Finn Daniel Raaen, Professor at Profession Studies, Centre for the Study of Professions, Oslo University College
15:25 Summary and evaluation
15:45 Closing the conference

Norwegian web pages of the conference

To the Norwegian web pages

See the paper presented by Hannu Heikkinen: Understanding Professional Development of Teachers within the Theory of Practice Architectures

Oslo_paper_300311_Hannu_Heikkinen.pdf

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