Pedagogic support for new PhD students

Learning objectives:
Having passed the course, the PhD student should be able to:

• Manage nervosity, stage fear, and problem solving in higher education teaching.
• Plan teaching activities.
• Adapt teaching activities to different educational levels and background of students.
• Show practical skills in teaching regarding the use of body-, spoken, and written language, and the structure of a teaching activity.
• Adapt teaching activities to the use of digital tools.
• Assess a teaching activity based on set learning outcomes.
• Learn from mentor.

Course organisation:
The course is organised around

• Lectures, incl. video-recorded material.
• Presentation of an individual assignment at a seminar.
• Oral auscultation (/review) of another course participants individual assignment in class at a seminar.
• Auscultation (/review) report of another course participants individual assignment.

Contents:
The contents of the course will be adapted to participants previous experience. Subjects covered in the course include for example management of:

• Stage fright
• Different audiences, cultural differences
• Digital tools in teaching
• Speech
• Body language and voice
• Feedback technique

Course requirements and credits:
Successful completion of the course requires approved performance for:

• Planning, performing the teaching activity; and
• Review of another's teaching activity

The course is graded: U-G. (i.e. Failed (U)-Passed (G)) and represents 1.5 HEC.

Contact M2 Forskarutbildning m2.fu@chalmers.se for further information and course registration.

Race, P. 2019. The lecturer’s toolkit: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching, 5Edn, Routledge.

Lecture handouts

Contact: Henrik Ringsberg, M2, e-mail: henrik.ringsberg@chalmers.se for further information and course registration.