Aarhus University Seal

The Danish framework for advancing university pedagogy
– The operative space

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THE CATEGORY FOR SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL TASKS

TEACHING/THESIS SUPERVISION

The faculty member:

- can, while under supervision, plan and carry out individual teaching and thesis supervision activities with a focus on the students' learning

The faculty member:

- masters the subject's essential teaching and thesis supervision practices and can independently plan and carry out teaching, thesis supervision and course organisation, taking into account both academic goals and the students' learning prerequisites 

The faculty member:

- maters a broad spectrum of teaching and thesis supervision practices

- can develop, innovate, and experiment with teaching and supervisory practices

The faculty member:

- can analyse, plan, implement, evaluate, improve, and re-develop courses, educational elements, or entire teaching curricula

- can participate in and take responsibility for university pedagogical development and innovation

ASSESSMENT

- can, under supervision, organise and carry out assessment in accordance with the academic objectives

- can independently plan, carry out and evaluate assessments in accordance with the academic objectives

- masters different types of assessment and can ascertain whether the selected assessment type is appropriate

- can develop and rethink forms of examination

- can develop new and innovative assessment types

- can take responsibility for ensuring that new types of assessment are spread at the institution

QUALITY ASSURANCE

- can, under supervision, contribute to teaching evaluation of own teaching and thesis supervision and to discussions about the evaluation's significance for the development of teaching and thesis supervision

- can work systematically to develop own teaching and thesis supervision based on the teaching evaluations

- can develop and test new formats for evaluating own teaching and thesis supervision

- can contribute innovatively and systematically to the development of teaching quality, so that the institution's teaching, thesis supervision and educational practices are improved