As a PhD candidate, teaching may be a part of your job. If not, you might have volunteered to teach parts of a course. The aim of this training is to develop competences and skills to prepare and teach in the context of FSE and take part in the assessment procedure of a course.
ECTS:
- Employed PhD candidates who are teaching as part of their job get 1 ECTS credits for completing this course.
- Scholarship PhD candidates do not teach as part of their job. When taking this course, you can combine it with voluntary teaching or supervision (contact your supervisor or programme coordinator for more information). Completion of the course combined with the voluntary teaching is rewarded with 1+3 ECTS.
Learning goals:
After this course, you will be able to…
- Contribute to the organization of the course within the frame of their responsibilities.
- Describe the design of 'their' course using constructive alignment (the learning objectives, and the learning activities and assessment methods).
- Select and prepare learning/teaching activities that align with the relevant learning objectives.
- Apply tools and strategies to engage the students in the learning activities, and adapt to prior knowledge and expectations.
- Generate discussion during activities by asking critical and open-ended questions.
- Recognize cultural and academic differences and their impact on the learning of culturally diverse students.
- Apply tips and show commitment to enhance cultural and inclusion in group interactions.
- Formulate constructive feed back to increase the quality of learning.
- Use assessment rubrics to grade student work reliably and transparently.
- Find solutions for the challenges facing them using, resources, evidence and peer collaboration.
Timeframe and planning
The course runs twice a year, starting in block 1A or 2A. The course runs for 6 weeks, with one weekly session. Attendance of the workshops is mandatory. You can only miss one workshop (in that case, you have to complete an alternative assignment).
Block 1A 2025 dates (all sessions from 13:00 to 15:30):(cancelled)
- September 2
- September 9
- September 16
- September 23
- September 30
- October 7
Block 2A 2026 dates (all sessions from 13:00 to 15:30):
- February 3
- February 10
- February 17
- February 24
- March 3
- March 10
Entry requirements
You can only take this course if you have concrete teaching plans. The most practical is if you have your teaching activities in the same block as the course is taught. If you are teaching in block 1B, take the course in block 1A. You will then do some assignments later during your teaching activities in 1B. The same goes for blocks 2A and 2B. We apply all theory to the course you are/will be teaching. If you don't have teaching duties coming up, you can follow the introduction to teaching course instead.