Teaching Day 2019 in retrospect: On May 15, 2019, interested university members came together to discuss skills orientation in teaching on the occasion of this year's Teaching Day.
The event, which was broadcast live by the Center for eLearning (Zfe) from the university's Görlitz campus to Zittau, offered the 50 or so participants an interesting and varied program.
In her introductory remarks, Chancellor Karin Hollstein, representing the Vice-Rector Education and International Affairs, referred to the ongoing system accreditation of the HSZG as the trigger for this year's choice of topic, and to the close cooperation between the University Didactics Department and the Quality Management Unit in preparing the day.
With the awarding of the certificate for engineering pedagogical training for lecturers the Teaching Day was also used to recognize the successful completion of further training in higher education didactics by eight members of staff at the HSZG. The certificate from the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) was awarded to Ronny Freudenreich, Stefan Keck, Thomas Müller, Cordula Paetzold, Sebastian Riedel, Clemens Schneider, Franz Thiele and Daniel Winkler. The aim of this further training is to further expand the engineering pedagogical expertise of our university staff. The next series of events will start in September 2019.
From January 1, 2020, structural areas that offer modules for teaching interdisciplinary skills will be bundled in the Center for Interfaculty Te aching (ZfL). The Head of the Education Unit, Mr. Sebastian Riedel, provided information on the planned structure and tasks of the ZfL. The ZfL, which is still in the process of being founded, will offer students on Bachelor's and Diploma degree courses a wide range of elective modules in foreign languages, interculturality, sustainability, academic work, etc. With the establishment of the ZfL, the HSZG is implementing both a stipulation from its University Development Plan 2025 and recommendations from accreditation procedures.
Slides and video recording (only within the university with login request)
Dr. Anja Centeno Garcia, university didactic trainer and consultant from Dresden, discussed the question of what competence orientation in teaching and examinations is good and important for in her keynote speech on Teaching Day. In addition to legal framework requirements, such as the German Qualifications Framework, Dr. Centeno Garcia explained to the audience the possibilities of making students' competencies visible based on their performance and formulating them using Bloom's taxonomy or the revised version according to Anderson/Krathwohl. She emphasized that a meaningful representation of competencies includes not only the cognitive dimension ("knowledge") but also the affective ("attitudes") and psychomotor ("actions") dimensions.
Following the presentations, the discussions continued at both university locations in separate working groups. In addition to the university didactics and quality management staff, the discussions at the Görlitz university site were led by Dr. Centeno Garcia and at the Zittau university site by staff from the project Teaching practice in transfer plus project. The working groups presented various central university support services for implementing competence orientation in teaching and discussed how modules can be described in a meaningful way and what those responsible for modules need for this. The main focus will continue to be on the comprehensible presentation of subject-specific and subject-independent competencies and learning outcomes in the module descriptions and the interaction with the course and examination format of the module.
In fall 2019, the HSZG will be offering further and in-depth training on this topic in-house further training in higher education didactics courses. Register and be part of it!
The organizers look back on a very discussion-rich Teaching Day 2019 and would like to thank the speakers for the impulses from the lectures and the guests for their contributions to the discussions, the supervisors of the working groups for their moderation and all the hard-working hands and supporters who contributed to the success of the day in the run-up to and on site.
