Designing courses in a competence oriented way

This basic seminar is especially for university teachers (from foreign countries, not Germany) who are at the starting point of their teaching in Germany or who want or need to redesign their courses. In the seminar, we want to give you an overview of how to conceptualize your courses and explain to you which steps are important during the preparation process.

Preparation:

The design of the seminar is based on the principle of flipped classroom: In advance, you prepare the following topics in e-learning as asynchronous part:

• Open questions about German teaching in higher education
• Reflection on your role as a teacher and your understanding of teaching
• competence orientation and learning outcomes
• Planning models (constructive alignment, Berlin model of didactics)
  

During the seminar, participants work on the following skills:

• Describing what competence-oriented teaching is
• Explaining important planning models in higher education teaching
• Applying the different steps of conceptualizing seminars/courses
• Focusing teaching on the learning processes of the students with (digital) media and methods
  
• Reflecting own teaching