The student teacher lessons are a way of increasing the number of training fields and workouts for the students. The more informal space gives the students the opportunity and time to ask those 'stupid questions'. The student teaching can thus relieve the pressure on the lecturer both in relation to having to repeat explanations and using additional teaching time on regular training.
A grammar subject such as "Danish morphology and syntax' consists of a relatively heavy course of learning concepts and systems, which therefore requires training and even more training. This training is something that the student teachers to a great extent supplement with.
In brief, “Student teachers in language courses" is about the teaching being supplemented by student teacher led instruction which primarily focuses on training the students' grammatical skills. This means reviewing regular grammar exercises that can have the character of training skills.
The student teacher instruction is not a part of the compulsory teaching, but it gives the students the opportunity to have the material explained again and in different words, and they get extra training in the individual disciplines. It is a form of peer-to-peer training as the student teacher should preferably be found in an earlier year group.
In collaboration with a student teacher it is important to spend time on clarifying the following prior to the start of the semester:
The student teacher must feel
This requires good cooperation, openness and sparring on theory, sets of exercises and proposed solutions.
The student teacher should be presented in the first lesson and, if possible, also attend (parts of) the teaching.
It may also be the student teacher’s job to facilitate study groups and offer advice on how to be "a good university student in this subject".
