Didactic Basics for Student Teaching Assistants

Abstract

The course “Didactic Basics for Student Teaching Assistants” enhance Student Teaching Assistants (Student TAs) to develop knowledge, capability and confidence to effectively plan and teach courses and exercises. Participants get trained to think critically about students’ learning and create learning situations in which students are actively engaged.

Objective

In this course Student Teaching Assistants will ... • reflect on their approach to teaching as well as their attitude towards teaching. • understand the basics of teaching and learning in the context of their subject. • consciously design the introduction of their course as well as the introduction of single teaching units. • apply classroom assessment techniques as formative assessments to measure the current status of their students. • develop a didactic concept according to the learning objectives. • conduct interactive sequences as learning activities. • give and get feedback from peers and self-reflect on their teaching practice. • feel confident to use methods for active learning scenarios in their classes.

Content

The online course provide a range of relevant topics for developing teaching competences of Student Teaching Assistants: • Overview about how learning works. Based on these fundamentals of learning participants reflect on their role as Student TAs to feel comfortable in their new role as a teacher. • Plan an own lesson by introducing a class and locate it in the larger topic (methods: portal and informative introduction). • Develop learning activities in order to activate students (active learning methods). • Giving and also getting feedback. The participants integrate this topic also in their lesson plan. While working through the online course, Student TAs have the chance to reflect, exchange ideas with peers and plan their own teaching accordingly so that they feel confident in their role.

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