INFORMATION
- Course code
TA 2026/2027
- Programme is for
All academic staff (whether permanent or temporary, part-time or fulltime) with UFO profile HGL, UHD, UD, Teacher.
PhD's:
The UTQ courses, 2a: Practical Teaching Skills, and 2b: Supervising Students are alternatives to the Taste of Teaching course. You may take one or both of these courses instead of the Taste of Teaching course. For these courses, you will receive a partial UTQ certificate. To be eligible for a certificate, you must meet the following criteria:
Course 2a: You have active teaching responsibilities. As part of the assessment, one of your lectures will be observed, you must have delivered several lectures before this observation takes place.
Course 2b: You must supervise at least two BA and/or MA students.
- Date
Several times a year.
- Time
5 face to face sessions of 3 hours.
Self-study assignments: 3 hours per session.
- Location
On Campus
- Maximum participants
9 participants
- Course materials
You will get access to a Canvas site offering all the necessary content in a modular setting.
- Trainers
Tessa Kuijk
Robert Middelburg
- Requirements
Before taking any of the UTQ courses, please arrange an initial meeting with your faculty's UTQ supervisor. You can find the name of your faculty's UTQ supervisor here: Expert at CELT.
PhD's who started their PhD before 1st of March 2026 and have already had teaching training are eligible to receive a 2EC exemption for the Taste of Teaching. Please email exemptions-tgs@utwente.nl and attach the course certificate of teaching credentials you already have. You will be issued an exemption letter which you will upload into the Doctorate monitoring system. Candidates who started their PhD on or after 1st March 2026 and have already had teaching training will describe the training they had directly in the Doctorate monitoring system. An exemption letter will no longer be needed.
RESULT
After this course you are able to:
- express your vision on learning and teaching and substantiate it based on theory;
- critically observe your own and others’ teaching activities and skills and give useful feedback to each other in a constructive way;
- prepare a lesson in a systematic way and activate students based on a model/theory;
- adequately and effectively perform your teaching activities;
- reflect on your actions in your role as a teacher and underline the choices you have made.
CONTENT
Please note: as the title of this training already suggests emphasis is on practicing skills, through: active participation, making video recordings, doing exercises and reflection.
Prepare an educational meeting, lesson plan, intended learning outcomes, context, materials, activating student learning, justification, conduct an educational meeting and reflect on his performance. Thorough reflection, vision on teaching and learning; giving and receiving feedback.
ORGANISATION
Preparation: exercises and assignments, reading course material, in course: assignments (both individual and group), discussions
ADMISSION CRITERIA
The University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) is a required teaching certification for lecturers, assistants, associates, and full professors. PhD students may be accepted into the UTQ program if they meet the requirements. Please contact the UTQ supervisor in your department to confirm: https://www.utwente.nl/en/ces/celt/who-we-are/
FURTHER INFORMATION
In order to be eligible for the certificate you need to hand in all the assignments on Canvas and participate in all of the (online) sessions. For more information you can contact celt-ces@utwente.nl.
