27.10.
2021 – Meeri & Marko
TIMETABLE: WEDNESDAY
9.00 Introduction to the day
• WAT career? Results from our WAT Alumni & Stakeholder Surveys
Helps you to plan your advanced courses – and career
• Feedback on your WAT course feedback
Break
• Group feedback session
Light version of 'I like I wish’
12.00 Closing of the day
WAT career?
WAT skills for
working life?
OUR RESEARCH ON WAT
We carry own research on the
WAT development project
competencies required in our 2017-2020 supported by MVTT
field + their link to our teaching
- WAT Feedback Surveys
- WAT Teacher Surveys
- WAT Alumni Survey in 2017
- WAT Stakeholder Survey in 2019-20
Anu Vehmaa’s Master’s Thesis:
https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/31604
Scientific articles:
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/8/2605
https://lehti.yliopistopedagogiikka.fi/yliopistopedagogiikka-1-2019
Summary slides in Portfolio page:
https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/view.php?id=34281
One conclusion: T-shaped learning profile works!
WHERE DO OUR GRADUATES WORK?
Paikallishallinto
Local administration
•Graduates working in different Research
Tutkimuslaitos
sectors of the society institute Central
Keskushallinto
administration
Private sector largest employer:
Yliopisto
almost half of the respondents University Yhdistys /
Third sector
kolmas sektori
But also public sector + research Other
Jokin muu
institutes employ a lot Private sector the
largest employer
• Excellent: increases employment
and career possibilities!
Private sector
Yksityinen sektori
Current employers of WAT graduates 2007-2016
(88 respondents, incl. both water and environmental engineering)
Alumni Survey
FIRST JOB?
How did you get your first job after graduation? Requirements for the first job
Substance competencies
Wrote Master’s Thesis for the same employer
Replied to job
advertisement
Common working
Recruiting services, events, and programs life skills
of the University or other organisation Other
No requirements
Was contacted / headhunted
Language skills
Something else
Used personal contacts
and networks
Continued in summer job / Working experience /
Education / degree
same job than during studies Thesis
Sent open applications,
contacting potential employers
Alumni Survey Karvinen, Vehmaa, Keskinen (2019)
https://lehti.yliopistopedagogiikka.fi/yliopistopedagogiikka-1-2019
FIRST JOB?
How did you get your first job after graduation? Requirements for the first job
Substance competencies
Wrote Master’s Thesis for the same employer
Replied to job
advertisement
Common working
Recruiting services, events, and programs life skills
of the University or other organisation Other
No requirements
Was contacted / headhunted
Language skills
Something else
Used personal contacts
and networks
Continued in summer job / Working experience /
Education / degree
same job than during studies Thesis
Sent open applications,
contacting potential employers
Alumni Survey Karvinen, Vehmaa, Keskinen (2019)
https://lehti.yliopistopedagogiikka.fi/yliopistopedagogiikka-1-2019
CAREER PATH?
A 100 B 100
Share of the job level (%)
75 75 Rather typical
career path in
50 50
engineering field
See e.g. RIL surveys:
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25 25
n = 88 n = 27 n = 17 n = 12 n = 10 n = 6 n = 5 n = 11 n = 11 n = 9 n = 9 n = 12 n = 9 n = 6
0 0
1. 2. 3. 4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Number of duties after graduation Years from graduation
Assistant / intern / trainee
Doctoral student / Doctoral student//project
expert / planner expert engineer
/ planner / project engineer
Team
eam leader / project leader
leader / project leader / researcher
/ researcher
Head of the project / head of the unit / senior specialist
Executive / manager
Alumni Survey Karvinen, Vehmaa, Keskinen (2019)
Practical skills
WORKING Arrangement & coordination skills
Initiative & self-direction
Time management & prioritization
Practical skills
LIFE SKILLS AT
Communication & group work skills
Communication & presentation skills
Group work skills
Scientific writing
DIFFERENT
Communication & Scientific methods
Social skills group work skills
Negotiation skills
Social skills
LEVELS Sustainable development skills
Ability to make & execute changes
Creativity & flexibility
Ethical & value-based thinking
Future orientation & forethought
Systemic, wide-ranging,
Social skills Leadership skills
connective thinking
Transdiciplinarity, acting in
multidiciplinary environments
Leadership skills
Leadership
Decision making Sustainable development skills
& responsibility
Teaching & supervision
Scientific methods Assistant / intern / trainee
Analytical & critical thinking Doctoral student / expert / planner / project engineer
Comprehension & application of theories
Computational skills Team leader / project leader / researcher
Problem solving Head of the project / head of the unit / senior specialist
Searching & updating information,
Executive / manager
Alumni Survey active learning
Stakeholder survey:
Future skills
needed in the field
Questionnaires, open text
answers + interviews (n = 72)
Stakeholder Survey
Stakeholder Survey Competencies considered important when recruiting
Employer questionnaire 2019
(n = 62)
Practical skills
Communication and group work
Social skills
Sustainable development skills
Leadership skills
Technical and scientific methods
Experience and knowledge
1=not at all important 4=very important
How to benefit from graduates’ new kind of knowhow in workplaces?
Summary of the workshops in WAT Master’s Program Stakeholder event “Water Expo” on 7th Feb 2020 (>120 participants)
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOU?
• Employment opportunities in our field are good, and diverse
• The findings also show the diversity of competencies you are
preferred to have; possessing all of them means you are
almost a super-human!
So do remember that this is an ideal wish list, and
in reality, we all have our specific expert profiles
• Our portfolio process helps you to think what kind of set of
skills and knowledge works best for you: make use of it!
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOU?
• Survey results confirm the importance of broader context
as well as ‘identity skills’ (incl. group work and interaction skills)
• Yet, substance knowledge and skills still very important
(obviously), so emphasis in WAT advanced courses is on those
Identity skills come as a crosscutting theme
• Master’s Thesis form an important ‘stepping stone’ for working
life: think carefully when choosing your Thesis topic
(as it is likely to influence your entire career)!
DISCUSSION IN GROUPS
A) How does this sound? Any questions?
B) Do you already have plans for the next
courses or even your career?
--> Ideas for the way portfolio
could help you in planning those?
FEEDBACK ON YOUR FEEDBACK
WHY TO GIVE FEEDBACK?
There has been plenty of feedback! Why?
Course feedback is important part of your course work, as it:
1) Helps you to look back and reflect what you have learned
2) Enables you to give feedback to your group on their
group working and interaction skills (rare opportunity!) PDCA – Plan-Do-Check-Act
3) Provides teachers and Aalto leadership information
(feedback) on how we succeeded in our teaching
Helps us to develop the courses
Direct link to Aalto’s PDCA cycle
4) Benefits thus future students, as ensures better courses!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR FEEDBACK!
• Almost everyone found the time to finalise their answers (n=32/35)
• You provided plenty of good feedback yesterday through WAT course
feedback in Webropol: thank you!
Next some quickly done summary on some main points:
the report is available in MyCourses under Synthesis week
• NOTE: please fill also the standard course-specific feedback
that you have received through email. Thanks!
Weekly themes
Weekly methods
Other remarks on your feedback
• Hybrid arrangements received very positive feedback
– Meeting F2F with peers appreciated, but also the possibility to attend remotely
– Recordings facilitated learning
– Online lectures/group discussions not always ideal for learning
• Big groups made it even more challenging
• Very diverse set of knowledge and skills gained from the course
– WAT as a field and knowledge on advanced courses
– Depending on your interests and background, different things were found new and/or
useful
– All methods were found beneficial, but group work and communication skills were
specifically highlighted
• Improvements: many good points raised, thank you!
– Too big groups this year
– Many good views on feedback on your tasks and balance between the weeks (workload)
• Overall, it seems you appreciated the course although it was pretty intensive
HOW DOES THIS FEEL?
Comments on these findings (surveys + feedback)?
REMEMBER YOUR WELL-BEING!
WAT Course is an intensive start, and studying should not be as
intensive all the time (as would become too burdening)
WAT Advanced Courses structured differently, with
more time to focus on fewer themes and/or methods
Our recommendation: take only 2 courses per period – and if you take
3 courses, think carefully how much work to do (‘the level of enough’)
Do take care of your (and colleagues’) well-being: don’t ‘overdo’ it!
Portfolio page includes a sub-page on well-being
(incl. links for time management): check it out!
Make use of our excellent study psychologists, too!
REMEMBER YOUR WELL-BEING!
Aalto's self management and time management page
has several handy tips related to studies (link below + in portfolio page)
Prioritisation Be aware of Plan and manage
e.g. by setting goals: procrastination your study time – and
A, B & C goals make sure also to have
Try e.g. enough free time!
Then break Pomodoro technique
the goals into Discuss with and Weekly plans
components learn from your peers --> Be well!
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Break 15 min
GROUP FEEDBACK
…through I like, I wish
RE-CAP FROM FIRST DAY: GROUP WORK
• Group working is fun! …and hard.
• Five common stages of group work
Be ready for storms, too: part of the learning process
1. FORMING
Nice & exciting:
5. ADJOURNING what will happen,
Closing the group work, what is my role etc.
in style – and including 2. STORMING
reflection
Problems emerge:
this doesn’t work as
I thought and hoped for,
others suck etc.
4. PERFORMING
3. NORMING
Once balance is found,
group works! Finding a (new) balance:
this is how we work!
Based on Bruce
Tuckman (1965)
Source: Aurora / Tuckman
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We are now here:
important to do also the
adjourning of the group
in style and so that you
self-evaluate and reflect
your group work process
Good to remember
also in your future
group work processes
Source: Aurora / Tuckman
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TEAM ROLES by Belbin
PROJECT + TIME MANAGEMENT
• Your ‘mini-projects’ = weekly assignments (Thematic Tasks & Weekly Exercises)
We give you the main aim and timeline i.e. deadline
• Based on the aim and timeline,
1) divide the aim into objectives and related activities,
2) agree on the division of responsibilities (who does what)
3) plan and manage your time
Use SMART objectives
Decide on the ‘level of enough’
i.e. when something is ready
ilikeiwish.org
(we’ll use a bit different version, though)
I LIKE, I WISH!
(Self-)facilitated team feedback method by Satu Rekonen
Idea to give constructive feedback face-to-face
to your team/group members: unique opportunity!
Complements your self- and peer evaluation (DL 5.11)
START: write likes and wishes to your group and all members
LIKE’s = someone’s specific strengths Include also those not
possibly present: can
WISH’s = potential not yet fulfilled give feedback later on
“I LIKE that you listen to everyone’s point of views so carefully
and take into account how others are feeling.”
“I WISH that you would share your own ideas more courageously,
as I’m sure our group would benefit from them.”
I LIKE, I WISH!
Get into your group’s channel, with camera on:
1) LIKE’s for one group member at a time
One person LIKE’s at a time, others do not interrupt
Person being LIKE’d doesn’t say anything, either:
writes down key points to ‘Notes about me’
At the end of all LIKE’s, the person liked makes
his/her ‘I FEEL’ round (reaction to the comments)
After, move to the next person and do the same
2) WISH’s in a similar manner, but in different order
3) WISH’s for your group; then LIKE’s for your group
4) Promises: one thing from WISH’s you promise to act on
Also share your feelings about the exercise
PEER + SELF ASSESSMENT
‘I like, I wish’ exercise paved way for the self and
peer assessment everyone MUST do (DL Fri 5.11.)
Third of the grade for the course based on it
Idea of self and peer assessment:
1) Reflect on your own role in your group
2) Reflect others role in group
3) Give grade and constructive feedback based on those
You have a possibility + responsibility to affect your grade
4) Get others’ feedback for yourself Peer + Self Assessment
Evaluation is anonymous: everyone will get back done through Webropol:
only their average grades + written comments the link comes to your
email soon
Comments?
Final task:
describe your
feeling right now
with
ONE word
That's all folks
– thanks!
ok
it’ll be
WAT Course – 27.10.2021
