Course Objectives

The course will further develop the pedagogical qualifications of students, with an emphasis on general guide skills.

Course Description

• Guide-training – trip standards, procedures, guide-responsibilities and the leader-role, leader development
• Practical specialisation in Coast II, Waterways II or Mountains/Glaciers II
• Teaching practice
• Guide practice with advice given by the teacher before and after the practice period

Teaching practice:

For the teaching practice students will plan and execute teaching plans for various groups. Students will primarily assume independent and responsible leader roles, designing and carrying out a project with a group.

Guide practice:

During the academic year, guide practice will be carried out with a relevant target group. During part of this practice period, the individual student will be supervised by a subject teacher, who will advise the student before and after the practice period. The subject teacher will also provide a thorough assessment of the student’s strong and weak points with respect to the guide practice. The assessment will be based on a general list of the qualities we should expect of a leader. This list is created in plenum. The students should expect to be assigned guide practice associated with the foundation programme Outdoor Life, Culture and Nature Guiding I or the specialisation programme Outdoor Activities.

The practice period will require a minimum of 12 days. A written report will be submitted on the practice period.

• Skills and knowledge:
  • How to use the coast as an educational environment to teach subjects such as natural science and culture to target groups from, for example, primary or secondary schools
  • How to choose suitable trips, groups and areas according to the participants’ abilities
  • How to plan and execute teaching plans and trips along the coast
  • Trip planning, sailing and rowing trips in groups, safety procedures and norms for participants
  • Trip procedures: didactics, organisation, working methods, guidance and leadership
  • The various roles of the guide
  • The leader-role in traditional workboats
  • Safety, responsibility and consequence-analysis in coastal navigation in association with traditional workboats
  • The improvement of skills, knowledge and competence at a high technical level within sailing, rowing, navigation, meteorology, harbours of refuge and mooring, in connection with taking groups on sailing trips along the coast in traditional workboats
  • Introduction to sailing with square sails
  • Marlinspike-skills specialisation: rigging, knots, splicing and tackle
  • Specialisation in the maintenance of boats, equipment, rigging and sails
  • Specialisation on the theme of ‘people on the coast’ and use of the coast in a cultural-historical perspective
  • Specialisation on the theme of ‘the coastal environment’

Learning Methods

The instruction will take place in the autumn and spring semesters.

The course includes lectures, group-work, teaching practice (8 days) and guide practice (4 days) including three practice reports, obligatory specialisation course with guide (14 days) and obligatory trip carried out independently (6 days). On this trip, students will work on self-chosen topics related to their specialisation.

NB! All introductions to trips and group exercises associated with trip planning are obligatory.

Assessment Methods

Guide qualification on the basis of the student portfolio. In order to have the portfolio approved, the student must successfully complete teaching practice, guide practice, submit 3 practice reports and have them approved, submit a self-evaluation report and participate in a specialisation course with a guide and carry out a trip independently.

Minor adjustments may occur during the academic year, subject to the decision of the Dean