Three Cross-Sectional Topics
What are your different roles as a teacher and how do you adapt to the different expectations?
How can digital media be used in academic teaching?
How do you as a teacher do justice to the diversity of people, processes and tasks at modern universities?
These and similar questions are reflected in the cross-sectional topics of the workshops, which complement the continuing education within the framework of the NRW Certificate. On the one hand, the cross-sectional topics are dealt with in an integrative manner in most of the workshops, but on the other hand, they can also be specifically addressed in specific workshops dedicated to them.
What are your different roles as a teacher and how do you adapt to the different expectations?
A well-founded, reflected and thus professional attitude is a basic prerequisite for successful teaching - in a course, in counselling situations, in examination situations, feedback discussions, in internal communication, while planning a study programme... you name it. Teachers develop this kind of professional attitude by becoming aware that different tasks are linked to different role expectations and possible role conflicts. In out workshops, you will be given the opportunity to deal with role expectations in different contexts and constellations. By reflecting on expectations expressed by people in the teaching environment and by questioning your own attitudes, you can personally locate and position yourselves as teachers.
How can digital media be used in academic teaching?
The integration of digital media in teaching/learning processes is becoming more and more widespread and will be one of the fundamental elements of university teaching at all universities in the future. However, digital media - like other didactic tools - are not to be used as an end in themselves, but because of the didactic value associated with them. This includes, for example, a better fit to the requirements of the intended target group or the achievement of specific intended learning outcomes.
The qualification programme offers an opportunity to acquire teaching competences for the use of digital media or to further develop existing competences in a targeted manner. The aim is for teachers to regularly question and further develop didactic decisions against the backdrop of a constantly changing society shaped by digitalisation.
As a teacher, how do you do justice to the diversity of people, processes and tasks at modern universities?
Teaching and research and the associated processes and work areas at universities are highly diverse. This diversity of people, processes and tasks is an enrichment, but it can also bring a multitude of challenges in everyday teaching and research. In its continuing education programme, the network Hochschuldidaktik NRW is committed to raising awareness of and reflecting on diversity in the context of higher education and supports its participants in making meaningful use of diversity. In doing so, Hochschuldidaktik NRW refers to the diversity dimensions in the context of higher education according to Boomers/Nitzscke and Gardenswartz/Rowe.