Honours Teaching Course successfully completed
On Monday 20 January eleven proud teachers received their certificate for the successful completion of the Honours Teaching Course. The course focuses on the further professionalization of teachers in honours didactics.
Programmes for honours students require a different way of guiding and teaching: students get to work with their own ideas and plans and want to be challenged and involved. It is important that an instructor gives them confidence and freedom. Investing in talented students therefore also means investing in the instructors. Participants can learn with and from each other by jointly deepening their understanding of honours teaching and thus develop into a network of lecturer-experts with a vision of honour programmes within Utrecht University.
Participate?
Are you interested in participating in this course? Read more about this programme here. A new Honours Teaching 2020 course is planned, the application will be open next spring. This course falls under the responsibility of the Centre for Academic Teaching, which provides it in partnership with UU Honours College (Honours Dean Michael Burke) and Educational Consultancy & Professional Development (Hanne ten Berge).
Special Interest Group Honours Teaching
Honours teachers also have the opportunity to participate in the SIG (Special Interest Group) Honours Education. The aim of the SIG is to exchange excellent educational ideas, discuss what honours education means and build an honours community throughout the university. The honours community (teachers and students) of Utrecht University can also be followed on Facebook.
In the picture, from top to bottom (looked at the height of the heads): Alice Sijts (veterinary medicine), Heidi Lesscher (veterinary medicine), Maarten Löffler (beta sciences), Erik Hendriksen (beta sciences), Gerda van Rossum (UCU), Inge Loes ten Kate (geosciences), Inge The (beta sciences), Lieke Stelling (humanities), Peter Pelzer (geosciences), Geertje Creijghton-Sluyk (rebo) and Joep Lindeman (rebo).
Not in the picture is Corey Wright. He is abroad but has completed the course successfully.
Photo: Hanne ten Berge