Teaching Skills

GraduateCenter^LMU Workshop for Doctoral Candidates

Teaching skills are an important asset of a researcher planning an academic career. Considering scientific evidence of the Learning Sciences, this workshop aims at enhancing the quality of teaching and learning. 

The workshop touches issues like developing more consciousness for the role as lecturer/teacher as well as basic didactical knowledge for planning and structuring courses/seminars. The aims and functions of different teaching methods and techniques for leading discussions will be outlined.

Workshop topics:

• How to define learning objectives
• How to structure courses – designing a detailed structure plan
• How to use methods for different teaching formats, course phases and group sizes
• How to instruct, conduct and evaluate different methods
• Designing and using visual aids for teaching situations
• Leading groups and discussions
• Using communication techniques for teaching

Language of workshop: English    

Target group: Doctoral candidates of LMU Munich (the number of participants is limited)

Certificate of attendance: Participants will receive a certificate of attendance from the GraduateCenter^LMU.