Service Centre for Academic Personnel Development (SaPe)

Specialisation module

The specialisation module consists of two compulsory courses specific to the area of specialisation and one compulsory elective course. You will find the course information below.

Compulsory courses in the specialisation ...

Tutorial teaching expertise

Here you will develop a methodological repertoire for planning your own event format in a target group-appropriate and learning goal-orientated way. You will get to know both analogue and digital planning formats and tools, which you can use to take into account aspects that are essential for learning progression, such as learning phases, time planning, activating method changes, but also dealing with various learning prerequisites.

After attending the course, you will be able to ...

  • plan teaching and learning situations in a goal-orientated and structured way.
  • make a targeted selection from a pool of (digital) planning tools and use them in a targeted manner.
  • name different planning aspects that promote learning and use them in a didactically justified manner.

You will develop the foundations for organising your events in a way that is geared towards learning objectives and learners. Dealing with group dynamic processes and heterogeneous learning requirements and preferences plays just as important a role as the question of how different social forms, such as co-operative, collaborative and independent learning, can be used in tutorial teaching in a didactically justified way.

After attending the course, you will be able to ...

  • describe activating and motivating methods.
  • describe different social forms.
  • select methods and social forms in a goal-orientated and coordinated manner.

Counselling

Here you will deal with fundamental aspects of professional counselling. You will discuss your role as a counsellor in peer groups and develop an awareness of the tasks and responsibilities involved and where their limits lie. You will learn how to generate a trusting, appreciative and solution-oriented discussion and counselling setting.

After attending the event, you will be able to ...

  • transfer basic communication models to your individual counselling contexts.
  • Reflect on your role as a counsellor in peer group contexts and define the associated responsibilities and their limits.
  • Create a framework for a trusting, appreciative and solution-orientated discussion setting

You will develop classic discussion phases that will help you to organise your consultations in a transparent and structured manner. You will also look at selected communication models as well as moderation and questioning techniques and discuss together how you can constructively integrate these into your individual counselling contexts. Finally, you will use specific examples to reflect on challenging situations that can arise in counselling contexts and develop options for action.

After attending the event, you will be able to ...

  • organise counselling sessions in a transparent and targeted manner.
  • describe, select and use counselling-promoting conversation and questioning techniques in a targeted manner.
  • recognise challenges in counselling contexts and develop appropriate options for action depending on the situation.

Compulsory elective courses

You have the option of taking one of the two compulsory courses in the other specialisation as an elective course.

As a compulsory elective course, you can work on two self-study units asynchronously and independently. To do this, enrol in the Moodle course ZLL - Elective course - Self-study units. You can then select and work on two of the four topics on offer.

The following topics are available:

Structuring

After completing the self-study unit, you can ...

  • describe different course formats in the context of digitally supported teaching.
  • explain the structuring of (Moodle) courses.
  • integrate materials and activities into (Moodle) courses in a structured way.

Task design

After completing the self-study unit, you can ...

  • describe "new" tasks using digital media in teaching.
  • use digital media to communicate tasks.
  • use digital media to collect results.
  • demonstrate various ways in which digital media can be used to provide feedback or assessment.

Test design

After completing the self-study unit, you will be able to ...

  • distinguish between different types of tests and assess their suitability for different scenarios.
  • support the test creation process with the help of digital media.
  • make targeted use of internal test feedback options to promote learning.

Group work

After completing the self-study unit, you can ...

  • describe how the implementation of group work can be supported both inside and outside the course through the use of digital media.
  • explain how digital media can help to maintain an overview during longer group work phases.
  • describe different methods for securing group results using digital media.

A professional presentation of teaching/learning content and the personal appearance of the teacher are inextricably linked. In this course, you will therefore deal with general conditions for the success of input phases, such as didactic structuring or the targeted use of visualisation techniques. On the other hand, you will learn how to use rhetorical aspects (e.g. gaze and speaking behaviour) in analogue and digital teaching scenarios to establish a rapport with the learning group that is conducive to learning. You will have the opportunity to reflect on your own presentation behaviour supported by constructive peer feedback.

After participating in the event, you will be able to ...

  • structure input phases didactically efficiently.
  • analyse selected moderation and visualisation techniques with regard to their situational suitability and use them to promote learning.
  • analyse rhetorical aspects in terms of their effect and use them in a targeted manner.

Using group dynamics and communication psychology models, you will analyse the conditions under which disruptions and resistance arise in teaching situations. On this basis, you will develop a pool of intervention and de-escalation strategies and check their suitability for individual teaching and counselling contexts.

After attending the course, you will be able to...

  • Identify and recognise the causes and conditions for conducive or obstructive learning and communication behaviour.
  • explain and apply basic prevention and de-escalation methods.
  • Maintain the learning and communication process within the group, even in conflict situations.

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