Educational development and inspiration

With the new pedagogical framework, we work to ensure that lecturers are updated on teaching methods and exchange pedagogical experiences. This work is happening on many levels.

The student teachers are an important group who are responsible for many of the classroom hours both in classrooms and in laboratories. At the same time, they are brand new as lecturers. As something new, we have made it compulsory for new student teachers to participate in one of SDU's instructor courses.

A large group has just completed the course, and the feedback from SDU UP - our university pedagogical unit - is that it went really well. There was a really fruitful dialogue with and between student teachers from completely different programmes. For example, the student teachers have discussed how to actually lead a classroom.

It will also now be compulsory for our PhD students to participate in the course that SDU UP has created for this particular group on teaching. We very much hope that this will ease the task of lecturing, which can sometimes be particularly difficult for PhD students, who also have a lot of other things to do.

Our assistant professors participate in the lecturer training programme, and SDU UP also has a number of voluntary offers for our permanent teaching staff on pedagogical upskilling - for example on the use of generative AI, which you can read more about here.

As a new initiative, we have established a Science Education Hub. Here we will organise events and similar with all the faculty's lecturers as a target group.

For our kick-off event on 7 October, we have invited one of the country's leading experts in science didactics, Professor Lars Ulriksen from UCPH, who will give a presentation/workshop entitled Students' journey into academia.

You can read more about the event here or register here.