How teaching and learning work (A)


Amount of working units: 4 AE

Dates:
The material for this self-paced self-learning course will be available as from 22th of November 2021.
Please save some time for our mandatory meeting: 10th of December 2021, 11 - 12am (CEST).

Registration: Please register no later than Friday, 19th of November 2021 via email at hochschuldidaktik@zvw.uni-goettingen.de.

Format: Self learning course with downloadable resources (via StudIP) incl. a synchronous one hour mid-term meeting.

Venue for the midterm meeting: Virtual venue, details will be announced prior to the meeting.

Workshop language: English

Content:
For academic teachers, it is fundamental to understand how teaching and learning works and how the former can support the latter. This course addresses these fundamental questions and provides relevant information for those who wish to enhance their teaching competencies.

The course is structured in four parts. The first two parts address the main elements – teaching and learning – and invite you to explore your own experiences and perspectives. How does learning work for you? How does it work in your discipline? And how can teaching focus on learning so as to invite individual learning processes?

After accomplishing these two first parts in a self-paced manner, you will receive feedback on your assignments and further impulses during an online synchronous mid-term meeting, which constitutes the third part.

Based on this, the fourth and last part of the course invites you to develop individual teaching (and learning) guidelines. Once completed, this self-learning course will have provided you with insightful information about the process of teaching and learning and it will have given you the opportunity to professionalize your teaching practices.

Intended learning outcomes:
Upon completing the workshop, participants will be able to

  • define their individual approaches to teaching and learning
  • explore possibilities to support student learning with their teaching
  • create their own teaching guidelines as a navigator for themselves as well as for the students throughout the course.



Methods:
Screencast, individual tasks & feedback

Keywords:
Constructivism, Learning approaches, Teaching preferences,

Trainer:
Angelika Thielsch is member of the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Team at the University of Göttingen. She holds a Magister Artium in the area of the social sciences and the humanities and received her doctorate in educational sciences.

Lisa Meißner organizes and facilitates workshops for the certificate program of the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Team at the University of Göttingen. She did her Master’s degree in Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich and taught classes at the University of Kassel.