Centre for Teaching and Learning BaWü (HDZ)
The nine universities in Baden-Württemberg and the six universities of teacher education are jointly responsible for running the HDZ. Nine local offices and a central office work together as a network in the HDZ. The responsible management body of the HDZ is the General Assembly, which is made up of the Vice Presidents for Teaching at the universities. The HDZ Board of Directors is made up of these members and is elected by the General Meeting. These represent the HDZ externally.
Networking at the conceptual and operational level bundles the specific, heterogeneous profiles of the individual universities and thus enables the HDZ to offer differentiated and high-quality services. The cooperation within the network, as well as the national and international networking of the HDZ, facilitates the mobility of academic staff and the interdisciplinary exchange of participating lecturers.
- Freiburg
- Heidelberg
- Karlsruhe
- Konstanz
- Ludwigsburg
- Mannheim
- Hohenheim
- Stuttgart
- Tübingen
- Ulm
Since March 2015, the HDZ Baden-Württemberg has been accredited as meeting professional standards by the Accreditation Commission for Higher Education Didactics Training and Further Education Programs of the German Association for Higher Education Didactics (dghd).
According to the expert group, the documents and discussions show a convergent continuing education program across the locations in its basic outlines, which, however, offers sufficient scope for a locally specific design.
“The very positive findings in the self-evaluation report and the feedback from all stakeholders during the inspection are testament to the quality of this arrangement, which has not only served as a model for university didactics in Germany, but also offers a platform for further development. The Baden-Württemberg Certificate is completely on a par with the national reference framework and can also be seen internationally in terms of leading higher education didactic networks of 'Academic Development' ,” said the expert group in its final report.
The services of the HDZ are available to you if you are a
- Scientific employee or research assistant
- Assistant
- University lecturer
- Professor
- Lecturer
- Private lecturer
- Honorary professor
teaching at a university or university of education in Baden-Württemberg.
The services on offer at the HDZ are however not only aimed at individuals, but also at university units such as institutes, departments or faculties. As a representative of such a unit, you can request customized events or advice sessions from the HDZ.
Ba-Wü Certificate for Teaching and Learning at University Level
With the “Baden-Württemberg Certificate for Teaching and Learning at University Level,” the HDZ offers its participants a modular and self-contained training concept.
If you wish to acquire the Certificate for Teaching and Learning at University Level, you are bound by certain conditions. The certificate is modular and can be obtained part-time alongside your work. To this end, it offers a didactically and methodologically based combination of workshops, practical advice, and teaching observations and is oriented towards international standards with regard to its requirements.
The certificate comprises three modules with a total of 200 work units (WU) of 45 minutes each.
You can attend individual workshops first and, if you are interested, decide to acquire the certificate at a later date. Only at the beginning of the third module do you need to register in the form of an advice session at the local office of your university.
“Teaching and Learning” - Fundamentals of Teaching and Learning at Universities (60 WU)
In this module, you can sharpen your awareness of the conditions of teaching and learning at universities, systematically expand and reflect on your didactic and methodological knowledge and skills, and put your teaching and learning skills to the test:
- You will take part in the workshop “Fit for Teaching - Basics of Teaching and Learning at University Level” on the basic issues of teaching and learning (32 WU).
- Peer counseling: You will discuss challenges from your teaching practice with the other participants with the support of experts (12 WU).
- Collegial teaching observation: Forming a tandem, planning, and visiting each other in a 90-minute lesson (12 WU).
- You reflect and document what you have learned in Module I, what you have benefited from for your teaching and in which areas you would like to deepen what you have learned in Level II (4 WU)
Note on teaching practice in Module I: To make optimum use of all elements of the basic workshop and integrate them into your teaching, we recommend that you already have teaching experience and/or will be teaching courses in the foreseeable future.
Information on the site: Module I should be completed at the home university for organizational reasons.
Information on German language skills: This workshop and all elements of Module I in Hohenheim will be held in German. An English version of Module I is offered by the educational development units of the Universities of Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, and Freiburg. Workshop title “Fit for Teaching - Basics of Teaching and Learning at University Level.” You can register via the HDZ website here.
“Teaching and Learning” - specialization in selected subject areas (60 WU)
In Module II, you can deepen your knowledge of what is important to you in your subject and for your specific teaching tasks. You will attend one face-to-face course each from four of the following seven subject areas:
- Teaching and learning under altered conditions
- Alternative teaching and learning methods
- Planning and preparing courses
- Implementing courses
- Evaluating courses
- Advising students
- Testing students
“Teaching and Learning” - individual specializations (80 WU)
This module offers you the opportunity to give your teaching skills an individual profile. You have the following alternatives:
- You organize an event or series of events with an experimental character.
- You work within an organizational unit to develop a curriculum or change the structural conditions of teaching.
- You create a module paper on questions from your teaching practice.
- You attend further university didactic events (workshops from Module II).
- You attend university didactic conferences and congresses.
- You create a portfolio.
Module III is accompanied in the following form: At the beginning, we clarify the module’s goals in a meeting and advise you on how you can achieve these goals. This advice session is a mandatory part of Module III, after which you carry out your plans. You then reflect on and document your project. At the end, we evaluate the course and results of the module together.