Teaching in the classroom

This course provides teachers at the faculty with the concrete support they need to develop their teaching in lectures, lessons and problem sessions. These forms of teaching are dominant in our educational programmes, and their quality therefore plays a significant role for the students’ learning.

The course content has a broad span, from rhetoric and presentation technique to various student active methods, all closely connected to our subjects in mathematics, science and technology. The various aspects of the course will be connected and enriched by participants' own experiences, as well as insights from both discipline-based education research, and research in higher education in general. The aim of all parts of the course is to provide the participants with the means to reflect more deeply on, and develop, their own teaching practice.

The course is open to everyone with a basic teacher training course (5 weeks) and/or thorough experience of teaching. All individual seminars and workshops are also open to all teaching staff at the faculty.

Each participant chooses at least six of the ten thematic seminars and workshops below. In addition to participating in the seminars, each participant should produce a written reflection after each seminar, relating to their own teaching practice. A more detailed description of this task is given during each seminar. At the end of both semesters, the collected reflections are handed in and discussed during a follow-up seminar. Besides this, some reading is included, as well as a peer observation with feedback. The language of the course is English.

Seminars and workshops that can be included in the course