Workshops and courses for doctoral assistants & post-docs

Teaching Toolkit for EXERCISES (in English)

This interactive one-day workshop targets the development of skills to manage classroom interactions and to design exercises to maximize student learning.

Teaching Toolkit for PROJECTS (in English)

This active workshop will develop your ability to accompagny students facing typical difficulties of real-life open-ended projects, such as collaborating, project management, incomplete data and uncertainty.

Teaching Toolkit for LABS (in English)

This “hands-on” workshop will develop your ability to design labs and interact with students in ways to support autonomy and critical thinking in the lab. Organized through  activities based on science content.

Teaching Toolkit for PRESENTING (in English)

This workshop allows you to practice and get feedback on evidence-informed strategies for presenting and explaining scientific and technical content.

Science and Engineering Teaching and Learning

This course introduces contemporary research findings in the teaching and learning of science and technology subjects in higher education, develops participants’ teaching skills, and provides a framework for on-going development of their skills through evaluation of their own teaching practices.

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Lecturing and Presenting in Engineering

Informed by contemporary research on teaching engineering, participants design and deliver lessons for specific audiences. This course is relevant to those who intend to make teaching science or engineering part of their career, in a formal or informal way.

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Supervising Students in Projects and Labs

In this hands-on course, participants will develop evidence-informed skills relevant to supervising and evaluating students working on projects and labs that are characteristic of science and engineering. This course is relevant to those who intend to make teaching science or engineering part of their career.

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Teaching STEM Problem Solving Approach

Problem solving is a core engineering skill. This course explores relevant heuristics, epistemologies, metacognitive skills and evidence-informed teaching strategies for developing problem solving skills that transfer from paper-based exercises to complex, real world engineering situations. Participants in this course will get the opportunity to practice by engaging in authentic teaching practice, and develop their skills based on targeted feedback.

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