Teaching
Teaching at the University of Freiburg
Teaching staff at the University of Freiburg use research-related topics to pique students‘ curiosity and enthusiasm for science and to prepare them for challenges facing society today. Numerous support programmes and development opportunities are available to you.
The Teaching Note Blog [de]
The Teaching Note Blog provides insight into teaching practice at the University of Freiburg as well as news on topics related to teaching. The Teaching Note Blog is a continuation of the Instructional Quality Workshop, which has gathered ideas, reports, and current information on learning and teaching since 2010. The archive contains entries dating back to 2018 and earlier.
Organising and managing teaching
How do I integrate my courses into the course catalogue? Where can students register for the examination? What learning platform and digital tools can I use for my course? This overview contains the most important information for helping you to organise your teaching.
Planning and designing my teaching
Before each semester, teachers dive into preparations for their upcoming courses. In the case of existing courses, this can involve revising the course to account for new developments in the topic, making conceptual changes on the basis of feedback, or trying out new teaching and learning formats. For the development of new courses, the methodological conception can be a challenge in addition to the focus on content, but it can also be an opportunity. Another aspect to consider in planning a new course is assessment concepts. For both existing and new courses, teachers can follow guiding principles of the University and benefit from support services.
Evaluating and optimizing my teaching
Every course also offers opportunities for future-oriented teaching developments. Teachers can obtain formative feedback from students during the semester in order to be able to respond to student feedback at an early stage. To identify development potential for teaching and learning, courses should be summatively evaluated at the end of the semester. This can be done through central, anonymous evaluations with the Central Evaluation Service (ZES) and/or with dialogue-oriented feedback methods.
Implementing innovative teaching projects
Looking for innovative ideas for your teaching? We can advise you on internal and external funding options and help you to apply for them, introduce you to innovative teaching projects, provide you information on current teaching and learning topics, and offer you access to helpful materials and resources. There are a number of internal and external awards and funding options that recognize good teaching and promote innovative teaching projects.
Ensuring study quality and further developing the degree programme portfolio
Excellent teaching is the University of Freiburg’s explicit goal, and the quality management system is a step on the way to achieving that goal. It is located within a framework that has evolved in a dialogue with all status groups and thus on the basis of the input, ideas, and experiences of students, teachers, and administrative employees. The processes of the QMS are brought to bear in this framework in order to assure the quality of studies and constantly develop the degree programme portfolio.
Internationalizing teaching
Adopting new perspectives and gaining new insights – the internationalization of teaching and learning has many facets for teachers and students at the University of Freiburg: Cross-border international collaboration with partner universities, cooperative teaching projects, international teaching experience, and virtual mobility are just a few examples of the various levels.
This lived experience of internationality at the trinational, European, and global level as well as interculturality, diversity, and above all responsible global citizenship are anchored in the values of the University of Freiburg.
Finding support services
Challenges may emerge during the teaching and learning process and the need for support may arise. Click here for a list of additional support services.