Course Syllabus
Welcome to teaching methods for PhD students in natural science!
- Campus module NFNF303 and PIL101, autumn 2023
This module starts Tuesday the 31st of October, but the first meeting will be on Tuesday the 7th of November at 9:00.
See the following document for a quick overview of the autumn 2023 modules and their respective time slots.
About the course see the link.
About this module:
The module prepares PhD students for teaching at the Faculty of Science. The module aims to give the participants the opportunity to further develop the design and planning of their teaching, with a focus on the participants being PhD students. The teaching includes lectures, practical exercises, literature studies, and reflection both in groups and individually via logbooks. The exercises are in didactics and methodology, focusing on leading laboratories, calculation exercises, and field studies. Within base groups, the participants discuss which pedagogical decisions a teaching element contains, based on scientific literature and experience.
Based on the above, the participants will develop and motivate a concrete natural science teaching element commonly used by PhD students at the Faculty of Science. This is summarized in a lesson plan with purpose, content, possible pedagogical and didactic considerations, and challenges. Peer response to the lesson plan takes place before submission.
The lesson plan, lectures, literature, and practical exercises form the basis for each student to plan, develop, carry out, and evaluate a short oral teaching session, called microteaching. The implementation takes place in a group and the participants themselves decide the form and content of the teaching element, based on a teaching situation commonly encountered as a PhD student at the Faculty of Science. The chosen teaching element can, for example, be part of a laboratory, a field study, or a calculation exercise.
Microteaching is a way to actualize different didactic aspects of teaching in the physical or digital space. Through the exercise, the participants get the opportunity to identify an interesting or problematic aspect of the teaching and then find a solution in front of a constructively critical audience. The microteaching is recorded and analyzed afterward.
Writing a reflection is included as a mandatory part throughout the module.
The module relates to the following learning outcomes provided by the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) for qualifying courses in higher education pedagogy:
- discuss and problematise student learning in the participant’s own subject area, on the basis of research in educational sciences and/or subject didactics of relevance for teaching in higher education,
- independently and jointly with others, plan, implement, and evaluate teaching and assessment in higher education with a scientific, scholarly, or artistic basis and within their own area of knowledge,
- make use of, and assist in the development of, physical and digital learning environments to promote learning for groups and for individuals,
- collect, analyse, and communicate their own and others’ experiences of teaching and learning practices, and relevant outcomes of research, as a basis for the development of educational practice and of the academic profession.
Some general information:
To follow this module (course), please follow the link "Modules" in the menu to the left. Below you will find the Course Summary with an overview of assignments and tasks. The formal course syllabus can be found here: PIL101/NFNF303 Syllabus and the reading list can be found here: NFNF303 Reading List.
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Session 1: 7/11 at 9.00 - 14.00 (Room Europa, Wallenberg) |
Introduction to this module. Introduction and theoretical perspectives on teaching and learning in higher education. |
Ola Nordqvist Luc Bussière Jonas Enger |
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Session 2*: 14/11 at 9.00 - 12.00 (Room at Natrium |
Workshop*: Teaching Assistant in Laboratory Work |
Ola Nordqvist |
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Session 2*: 14/11 at 9.00 - 12.00 (Room MVL21 on Campus Johanneberg) |
Workshop*: Seminar leader, group leader for non-laboratory work, exercise leader in computer labs |
Laura Fainsilber |
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Session 2*: 21/11 at 9.00 - 12.00* (Meet by big stairs in atrium at Natrium) |
Workshop*: Field teaching and field pedagogy |
Luc Bussière
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Session 3: 5/12 at 9.00 - 12.00 (Room 7305, Vintergatan, Natrium, Medicinaregatan 7b) |
Speed presentation and feedback for learning | Ola Nordqvist |
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Session 4: 12/12 at 9.00 - 13.00 (Rooms 6303, 6304, 6305, 6306 at Natrium, Medicinaregatan 7b) |
Microteaching and reflections of microteaching |
Ola Nordqvist Luc Bussière Laura Fainsilber Jonas Enger |
*= You choose either 14/11 or 21/11 or both dates for the workshops.
Online or on-campus activities?
We will give the course on campus.
Course teachers:
Jonas Enger (Course coordinator)
Susanna Larsson and Gabriella Olshammar (Course administrators)
Course Summary:
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