Dealing with teaching challenges

In the academic year 2023-2024 this course will take place offline.

Many PhD candidates do some teaching next to their research activities. When they lack teaching experience or proper didactical training, however, they will need to find out, for a significant part by themselves, how to design, offer and manage a course properly.

For instance, they will need to learn and experience how to prepare for a course meeting effectively; how to design a course that is both fun and productive; how to make a classroom safe but also challenging, critical, and open to diverse ideas; and how to deal with frictions and complaints.

This workshop offers a moment of reflection on such matters. Participants will be asked to share their teaching questions and concerns, and to give each other advice.

We hope the workshop can give PhD candidates some practical support for their teaching activities. Other and more comprehensive didactical courses can be followed at RISBO, Community for Learning and Innovation, and TeachEUR.

After completing the workshop participants will have learned how they can possibly deal with various teaching challenges experienced by themselves and other participants.

Because the course relies on input and reflection from participants, the course is particularly suited and relevant for people who have at least some teaching experience.

Participants will be asked to share questions about teaching and offer a detailed description of the situations or circumstances in which these questions emerged.