ROCKET Teacher Training

This training will also introduce best practices in Critical Virtual Exchange (CVE), using the training itself as a model. The training will be held in English.

If you attend the training, you will collaborate with other educators to plan activities related to your course content and experience role-playing methods in an embodied fashion. You will learn to recognise conflict styles as key drivers in everyday interactions and gain tools on how to make your classroom more inclusive.

In this training, you will learn to:

• Identify underlying positions, interests, feelings, and needs in conflict
• Practice different conflict styles through short role-playing scenarios
• Discuss intersectional factors related to DEI in the university context
• Map the support resources available at your institution
• Recognize the value of critical virtual exchange in fostering (inter-)disciplinary and transversal competencies relevant to your courses
• Identify design features of transformative role-playing games.

For more information on the ROCKET core concepts, check out our website.

Time commitment:

We have two options for the teacher training. All learners will take the mandatory core modules, with the option at the end to take the extension modules.

Iteration 1 core modules (mandatory):

• Date range: Jan. 12 – Feb. 6 2026
• 16 hours spread over 4 weeks
  • 5 asynchronous written discussions or journal entries
  • 4 synchronous video conferencing sessions (5 hrs 30 min):
    • Jan 14 (10-11:00); Jan 23 (10-11:30); Jan 30 (14-16:00); Feb 6 (10-11:00). All times in CEST.

Iteration 1 extension modules (optional):

• Date range: Feb. 9 – Mar. 13 2026
• 24 hours total spread over 5 weeks
• Option to take some or all modules
• If you take all modules, 1 week / 40 hours total of training including the core, spread out over time
  • Maximum 9 asynchronous written discussions, journal entries, or assignments
  • Maximum 4 synchronous video conferencing sessions (4 hrs 45 min): Feb. 19, 10-12:00), Feb. 27 (10-10:45), group meeting week of Mar. 9 (based on your schedule), Mar. 13 (10-11.00). All times in CEST.

Iteration 2 core modules (mandatory):

• Date range: Mar. 30 – Apr. 24 2026
• 16 hours spread over 4 weeks
  • 8 asynchronous written discussions or journal entries
  • 4 synchronous video conferencing sessions (5 hrs 30 min):
    • April 1 (10-11:00), April 10 (10-11:30), April 17 (14-16:00), April 24 (10:00-11:00). All times in CEST.

Iteration 2 extension modules (optional):

• Date range: Apr. 27 – May 18 2026
• 24 hours total spread over 5 weeks
• Option to take some or all modules
• If you take all modules, 1 week / 40 hours total of training including the core, spread out over time
  • Maximum 9 asynchronous written discussions or journal entries
  • Maximum 4 synchronous video conferencing sessions (4 hrs 45 min): May 8 (10-12:00), May 18 (10-10:45), group meeting week of May 25 (based on your schedule), May 29 (10-11:00). All times in CEST.

In the extension modules, you can learn to:

• Deepen your understanding of CVE and jointly work on a concrete scenario for future collaboration with a partner
• Discuss educational applications of RPGs
• Design and facilitate transformative role-playing games for conflict transformation
• Address issues related to conflict and worldview, cognitive dissonance, and perception checking
• Explore intersectional aspects of DEI from your own experience

Where

Online synchronous and asynchronous sessions in the ROCKET training environment.

Registration

Join our teacher training if you would like to explore new avenues of international collaboration with educators from other universities in the ENLIGHT network!

If you are unable to attend one or more of the synchronous sessions, please sign up anyway and indicate those dates on the form.

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Please click one of the links below to choose between Iteration 1 and 2.

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You will choose whether or not to take extensions at the end of the Core. If you participated in the pilot training in early 2025 already, you are eligible to sign up for the extension directly. Please let us know at rocket@uni-goettingen.de.

You will receive a digital badge or a digital certificate from one of our universities for successful completion.

Registration details needed:

1. Name
2. Email address
3. Discipline/field
4. Role
5. Institution

We will only register your details for organising the training.