Central Principles of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Teaching and Learning (Basics)

Teaching at university can be inspiring, dynamic, fun and sometimes chaotic. It challenges you as a lecturer to manage difficult teaching situations. In this workshop we focus on the reflection of teaching roles in different settings. Additionally, we talk about how difficult it can be to change into the student’s perspective. Therefore we work on the questions: what is the best way of learning and what does it mean for learning motivation? We will define our own teacher’s role and relate the constructive alignment to our teaching reality in order to motivate our students and enable them to take exams successfully. More topics that need to be reflected on are the definition of learning outcomes as well as aspects of communication that we need in the classroom.

Learning Outcomes 

At the end of the course the participants…

• can identify and describe foundations of teaching and learning in higher education
• design their own teaching in a competence-oriented manner and design it according to the principle of constructive alignment
• can motivate and encourage students using a variety of techniques

This Workshop is a part of our new workshop series “Central Principles of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education”.  Central Principles of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education addresses international lecturers who teach at universities in NRW.

Registration

In order to register for one or more workshops, please e-mail to highereducation@hd-nrw.de and include

• the workshop(s) you would like to register for
• your name
• your university
• your faculty
• your department

Registration starts on Monday, September 02.  Registrations received before that date will not be taken into consideration.

Registration is limited to 30 persons per workshop and a maximum of four people per university. Hence early registration is recommended.

Registration deadline is a week before each workshop.