Complete teacher development offer

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As an employee who also teaches, you can take advantage of all kinds of development offers in the field of education. In order to best fulfil these educational tasks,  you can benefit from all kinds of various workshops, courses and programmes in the field of education. 

Have a look at the possibilities for teacher development in the filter list below. Are you interested in personal development and professional skills? Then consult the Development Guide on the intranet (login required).

View all types of our teacher development offer in this overview (pdf).

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  • Workshop Effective Digital Assessment

    This workshop will offer some rules of thumb for composing a good exam and good (open or closed) exam questions. As an exercise, we will critically examine your past exam questions, looking for ways to improve them and learn how to write even better questions in future.
    Date: 13 January 2025

  • Supervising student research more effectively

    Supervising theses or thesis work can be fun and inspiring but also difficult and time-consuming. In this training we look at how you can optimize your approach.
    Starting date: 6 February 2025

  • From UTQ to STQ: Introductory meeting

    In this half day meeting, we will explore the meaning of “seniority in education” by looking at role models and the STQ-criteria. We will examine which activities and experiences are typically part of an STQ-portfolio. After the introductory meeting you will discuss your next step(s) with the course leaders.
    Start: 10 February 2025, 13 May 2025

  • Basic training for tutors

    The role of tutor is substantially different from the role of teacher. As a teacher, you are focused on subject matter and skills. As a tutor, you help students find their way and feel at home at the university.
    Dates: 11 February or 20 May

  • Workshop Learning Analytics

    Learning analytics (LA) concerns a field of study in which educational questions are being answered by using insights obtained from study data.
    Date: 12 February

  • Conversations about difficult and sensitive topics

    In this workshop, teachers learn how to initiate and guide conversations about difficult and sensitive topics in their classrooms.
    Data: This workshop consists of two half-days taking place on 19 February and 5 March.

  • Feedback in education

    Feedback is one of the most powerful tools you have as a teacher to help your student learn. Only, giving feedback is not always easy.
    Date: 20 February

  • From UTQ to STQ: Portfolio track

    The STQ-portfolio course is aimed at lecturers with enough experience at the STQ-level and who would like support in compiling their portfolio. At the end of the course you will have an (almost) completed SKO portfolio that you can use for the SKO application.
    Start: 3 March 2025

  • Employability Skills

    In this workshop we will use a model that provides tools to make employability skills accessible to students.
    Date: 11 March 2025

  • Motivation and self-management

    A tutor is expected to guide students in developing their study skills and good study behaviour. How can you contribute to this as a tutor and how do you ensure that the responsibility for study progress remains with the student?
    Dates: 20 March 2025

  • Conversations about difficult and sensitive topics

    In this workshop, teachers learn how to initiate and guide conversations about difficult and sensitive topics in their classrooms.
    Data: This workshop consists of two half-days taking place on 27 March and 3 April 2025.

  • How to design a knowledge clip (workshop 1)

    In the first workshop of this series, you will learn what a knowledge clip is and how to design a knowledge clip. What are the points of attention when designing a knowledge clip? And how do you develop an engaging storyline? Furthermore, we will delve into different types of knowledge clips that you can choose from.
    Date: 1 April 2025

  • Programmatic assessment with eJournal

    Is your education programme already using programmatic assessment, or are you interested in the possibilities of programmatic assessment? And what role can eJournal, the new portfolio tool, take in this?
    Date: 3 April

  • Guiding decision making

    As a tutor, you guide students in decision making. In this workshop, we use a model to illustrate the meaning of decision making and what it requires from the student and the tutor.
    Dates: 8 April 2025

  • How to record and enrich a knowledge clip (workshop 2)

    In the second workshop, you will learn all about how to record a knowledge clip and how to make it more engaging for your students. We will explore the different options for recording a knowledge clip, when to choose which option, and what the prerequisites are.
    Date: 8 April 2025

  • Teaching in higher education (UTQ/BKO)

    This course is intended for university teachers who would like to enrich their understanding of student learning, improve their own teaching practice, and develop ideas for course and class design. Teaching in Higher Education is particularly useful for those working on a BKO portfolio.
    Starts: 9 april 2025

  • Scholarly teaching for seminar teachers

    Scholarly teaching means that you approach your teaching in a scholarly way. You can also work scholarly as a seminar teacher.
    Date: 6 May

  • English Pronunciation (for Lecturers)

    Do you teach English and want to improve your pronunciation? Get rid of your Dunglish accent? Learn to speak more fluently in class? Then this pronunciation course might be for you.
    Date: 15 may 2025

  • Teaching effective study skills

    In a three-hour workshop, you will be handed tips and tricks that will enable you, as a teacher, to boost your students’ study skills with a few small interventions.
    Dates: 20 May 2025

  • From UTQ to STQ: Writing retreat

    Participating in the writing-retreat is an incentive and a support for finishing the STQ-portfolio.
    Dates: 22 and Friday 23 May 2025

  • UTQ (BKO)

    As proof of didactic competence in academic education, you need the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ/BKO).
    Start: differs per faculty

  • Teaching in the International Classroom

    The course is designed for teachers who (will) teach English in an international classroom and want to learn more about the cross-cultural and didactic implications of teaching in a diverse and international classroom.
    Date: to be determined, join the waiting list

  • Collaborative Online International Learning Programme

    During this programme, each participant will create or redesign (a part of) a course, module or project so that it is suited for collaborative online international learning (COIL).
    Date: register before 18 September, start date 10 October

  • Community Engaged Learning Programme

    CEL requires different skills from both students and teachers. The CEL curriculum supports teachers in teaching and developing CEL instruction.
    The course has two starting points in 2024-2025: September and February.
    Registration is open until 1 June 2024.

  • Honours Teaching Programme

    This course focuses on further professionalization of teachers in honors didactics.
    Date: to be determined

  • Interdisciplinary Teaching Programme

    Upon completion of this course, for example, teachers will be able to make choices appropriate to the learning objectives and subject matter of their interdisciplinary teaching.
    Date: to be determined

  • Peer Observation Programme

    Would you like to watch another teacher? Or would you like another teacher to watch you and give you feedback? This is possible with this program!
    Date: to be determined

  • Modules Didactics for Continuing Education

    To support teachers in the (continued) development of education for professionals and also to learn from each other, the alliance partners (EWUU) offer modules on didactics for education for professionals.
    Start date: 26 September 2024

  • Programme for Directors of Education

    In this concise course, the (prospective) Education Director develops knowledge and skills to effectively fulfill this responsibility.
    Date: to be determined

  • Educational Leadership Programme

    The intensive course in Educational Leadership is unique and designed for scholars who function in the direction of university education.
    Date: to be determined

  • Teaching Scholars Programme

    This programme will provide the participants with an overview of themes and research methods in educational sciences and coaches them to conduct and publish a discipline-related educational research project.
    Date: to be determined

  • Senior Fellow Programme

    The Senior Fellow Program is designed to strengthen educational leadership within Utrecht University.

  • Blended Learning for student assistants

    This module is specially designed for student assistants who want to think about new possibilities in education and learn more about blended learning.

  • Challenge Based Learning

    This module was created to introduce you to CBL, what it stands for, what its main features and frameworks are and how they can be applied in teaching.

  • Course Design

    The ‘Course Design’ module offers a step-by-step approach to (re)designing a course.

  • Educational Scholarship: research your education

    In collaboration with Educational Development & Training, this online training course has been developed with the aim of supporting you in writing a project plan.

  • How to develop an e-module?

    This module focuses on designing and developing an e-module from an educational perspective.

  • Getting started with blended learning

    This module introduces you to the concept of blended learning and gives you tips and tools for (re)designing your teaching in a blended way.

  • Knowledge clips

    The module covers the do's and don'ts when creating knowledge clips for your teaching.

  • (Peer) Feedback

    This module introduces you to the characteristics of effective feedback, the different forms of feedback.

  • Assessment

    This online module uses the test cycle to teach you how to design, construct and administer a test (question) and how to assess and analyse a test.

  • Making your teaching more sustainable

    This online module offers teachers tools for making ecologically responsible choices when designing their teaching.

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Online sessions on inclusive conversations

The CAT organises a series of online sessions with the aim of supporting teachers in navigating conversations with and between students around the current situation in Gaza and the demonstrations at our university.

To the sessions

MOOC's

An MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is an online cursus that is open to anyone. That means ‘learners’ around the world can follow the MOOC free of charge, even if they’re not enrolled in an educational institution. Utrecht University has already developed eight MOOCs, each one linked to one of the university’s four strategic research themes.

See the MOOC's