Transferable Skills Course: Basics of Teaching and Learning

To register for this course, please email kelleher@molgen.mpg.de.

Seminar’s Focus
This workshop provides a basic introduction into didactical planning of teaching (lectures as well as the scope of a whole semester) and fostering learning processes of students. During the workshop the participants are invited to work out their own teaching-plans. If required we’ll also cover the topic of accompanying Bachelor-/Master-Theses, especially focussing on the question of fair and transparent grading.

Learning-Outcomes

• The participants will understand basics of how people learn.
• They will reflect their role as a teacher at a university and develop a professional self-concept of teaching at universities.
• They will be able to distinguishing between working-processes and learning-processes and design their teaching in order to evoke and support learning-processes of their students purposefully.
• They formulate respective learning-targets and competences
• They understand the role of Problems and Cognitive Dissonances for Learning and use concepts of Problem Based Learning (PBL) to design their teaching.
• At the end of the seminar, they will come up with a rough plan for their next semester of teaching as well as a sketch out for the first lecture
• They grade theses transparently and fair.
  

Content

• A constructivist model of teaching and learning
• Target-oriented teaching and learning
• Confinements of learning
• Constructive Alignment
• Working-processes vs. learning processes
• Concept of Competences
• Bloom’s taxonomy of learning
• Problem Based Learning (PBL)
• Teaching methods

Methods

• Inputs
• Discussions and exchange of experiences & opinions
• Exercises
• Workshop

Participants are invited to bring their records and files they will be using for their teaching (even on laptop). We will be using it during the workshop.