👉SURVEY - Exploring Teaching Outside Academia: orientation and reflection

Course schedule

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Course description

Thinking about what comes after your PhD? Would you like to experience teaching outside of academia?

WGS is considering to organise the course Exploring Teaching Outside Academia again, but we need to hear from you to know if you're interested.

👉If you are interested to join such a course, please sign up via the 'apply' link above. If there is enough interest within WGS, a new edition of the course will be set up and you will be notified.

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Course impression

This introductory course is meant for PhD candidates and postdocs who want to explore the art of teaching and the teaching profession outside academia.

Content

Participants will be introduced to basic didactic skills, both in active tutorials as well as by observing experienced teachers/trainers working at an educational level of their own choice (for examples; see section target group). Participants will prepare and teach one or more lessons for a group of students at the educational level at which the participants did the observation. The course finalizes with a reflective session in which both teaching skills and further development thereof, and future ambitions in becoming a teacher, will be subject of reflection.    

The following activities will be addressed during the course: Intake talk, didactic skills theory and practice, internship / teaching at a school or polytechnicon, observation days in practice and reflection

NB. The student is expected to actively put energy in finding a suitable internship place in close consultation with the teaching staff of the course.

Learning outcomes

After this course you should be able to:

  • identify the prior knowledge and learning needs of your target group;
  • prepare a class or a training session that fits the learning needs of your target group by using a lesson plan;
  • employ basic didactic principles in your teaching;
  • reflect on your teaching skills;
  • reflect on your ambitions to become a teacher and further develop your teaching skills.

Information

For more information please contact:

Claudius van de Vijver
Email: claudius.vandevijver@wur.nl
Telephone: (+31)317 485116