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Teaching and Learning | Basic teaching module

Starting Point

As TU Berlin strives to increase offerings of English-taught courses and lectures in its curricula, your career opportunities and prospects for international travel may grow and develop. 

This highly practical workshop will prepare participants for the challenge of teaching in English to students from Germany and across the globe.  

During the two days, you will learn to navigate intercultural aspects of teaching and learning, including the use of appropriate and inclusive language. You will experience a discussion from the student’s perspective and discover a number of effective strategies to generate more student engagement. In addition, you will receive a video of a short teaching practice sequence and detailed feedback and coaching from both your colleagues and the instructors.

Aim

• Understand and appreciate the influence culture has on both teaching and learning and use this knowledge to plan more effective teaching sessions
• Appreciate how to speak to students using inclusive language
• Know how to structure lessons to allow for maximum understanding and retention of material
• Experience a teaching session from the students’ perspective
• Recognise your strengths and gain confidence leading a teaching session in English following personal feedback from instructors.

Content

• Approaches to knowledge and learning in different cultures
• Using International English - advantages and limitations.
• Generate more engagement from students
• Create suitable lectures and materials for an international audience
• Improve presentation skills and pronunciation with video-supported feedback
• Discover tools for planning teaching sessions in English

Methods

Pair and group work, discussion, individual and group presentations. Participants should come prepared with part of a lecture, a short presentation or teaching scenario (max 5 min) they wish to practice and perfect. This will be filmed and made available after the course.
Maximum number of participants: 12

Notes

This course is for anyone who teaches or who is planning to teach in English. This workshop can be complemented with the short introductory online workshop “How to engage students online”(winter term 2022/23) .

For registration, please fill in the provided form. In case of any questions regarding the course, please contact Dr. Monika Rummler.

In case of any organizational questions please contact wwb@zewk.tu-berlin.de.

Your binding participation is very important to us. On the one hand, our courses are connected with high costs. On the other hand, we plan much group work and work interactively with you. Hence, should you be unable to attend the entire course or should you be prevented from attending the course at all, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can allocate the place to other interested persons. In the event of multiple unexcused absence, we reserve the right to exclude you from further ZEWK courses.

Please help us to develop our program in a targeted manner. Your data will not be disclosed to third parties.

Im Rahmen der Berlin University Alliance ist unser Programm für die Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen der HU Berlin, FU Berlin und Charité geöffnet.