Teaching and Learning Science

13, 20 & 27 September 2024

Dr. Catherine Suarez, CUSO coordinator EE Corinne Dentan, CUSO coordinator StarOmics Debora Zoia, CUSO coordinator MPS Dr. Emilie Genty, CUSO coordinator Microbiologie

Dr. Kostas Kampourakis, UNIGE

Teaching is not simply transmitting content knowledge, but also organising the steps that lead to understanding and to successful assimilation of knowledge. In four consecutive sessions, course participants learn about teaching and learning and immediately practice the theory during microteaching sessions. The fifth session is dedicated to bringing everything together by designing and implementing an effective lesson plan.

At the end of this course the students should be able to:
- Apply some basic principles of curriculum development.
- Define learning goals for their own teaching activities.
- Distinguish between learning goals and the teaching approaches used to attain them.
- Choose appropriate and relevant teaching experiences to attain the defined learning goals.
- Design teaching sequences that aim to attain the defined learning goals.
- Design summative assessments that correspond to the defined learning goals (curriculum alignment)
- Develop formative assessments that can be effectively integrated into teaching sequences.

Day 1

SESSION 1
9:00-12:00 Theory (interactive lecture)
Setting learning goals: distinguishing between teaching and learning

SESSION 2
13:00-16:00 Theory (interactive lecture)
Selecting learning experiences that are likely to attain learning goals: teaching for learning vs teaching for teaching

Day 2

SESSION 3
9:00-12:00 Theory (interactive lecture)
Effectively organizing learning experiences: combining different teaching methods and setting up a curriculum

SESSION 4
13:00-16:00 Theory (interactive lecture)
Designing assessments: formative vs summative assessment and curriculum alignment

Day 3

SESSION 5
9:00-12:00
Bringing it all together: designing teaching for learning Micro-teaching

SESSION 6
13:00-16:00
Presentations and discussion

University of Lausanne, room CUB-233 (Auditoire III)

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This course is organized in collaboration with the CUSO Doctoral Programs in Ecology & Evolution, MPS, and StarOmics

Questions? Please contact Catherine Suarez
@: [email protected]

Reimbursements for CUSO MPS Students: Train ticket, 2°class, half-fare from your institution to the place of the activity 

Reimbursement of your travel tickets can be asked online through your MyCUSO. 

Registration here

Deadline for registration: 01.09.2024

4 places available for CUSO Microbiology students.

* For cancelations after the deadline of registration or 'no show': 100 CHF administrative fee

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