The course objective is to strengthen your teaching skills and competences as a PhD student. The course provides guidance and inspiration for planning and implementing teaching to enhance students' learning. In collaboration will peers, you will learn to apply tools to identify and find solutions for challenges in your own teaching. During the course, you will train your teaching skills by developing and implementing a teaching activity in your own teaching and use methods to provide feedback.

The course addresses both traditional and online teaching, and you will have the opportunity to specialize in the type of teaching which is most relevant for you.

Learning outcome

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

• Plan and implement teaching activities to support student learning according to learning outcomes
• Apply tools for classroom management to motivate students’ active preparation and participation
• Use effective feedback to assess and support student learning
• Identify and evaluate solutions to challenges in your teaching
• Use peer observation and feedback to develop your teaching practice
• Apply educational technology (EDU IT) and evaluate relevance in own teaching

Content

The course addresses teaching in technical and natural sciences at university level and covers challenges and teaching formats relevant for teaching assistants at the faculties of Natural Sciences and Technical Sciences. This includes, for example, small class teaching with problems solving, student presentations or discussion of scientific literature, laboratory teaching, field work, online teaching, and outreach activities.

The course will focus on the following themes:

1. Planning and applying teaching activities according to learning outcomes.
2. Assessment and feedback for learning.
3. Classroom management for active preparation for and participation in teaching.
4. Techniques to support classroom dialogue and interactions.
5. Methods for development of own teaching including peer observation and feedback.