Teacher Stories
Teacher Stories are inspiring stories by UvA teachers. These stories on various topics cover not only the teacher perspective, but also the student perspective. Expand your knowledge and get inspired by fellow teachers!
Would you also like to share a Teacher Story? Let us know via tlc-fdr@uva.nl.
Recap: Education Retreat November 2023
On 16 and 17 November, UvA teachers from different faculties gathered at the 24-hour education design retreat. In this recap, the teachers themselves tell you about rapping colleagues, valuable workshops and (re)designing your education.
Active learning applied with the UvA card set
How do you actively involve your students in your teaching? The network of Teaching & Learning Centres (TLC) developed a new support tool that can help with this: the UvA card set.
Best practices of knowledge sharing among students from diverse backgrounds
A search by Dr. Lela Mosemghvdlishvili with the UvA TLC Didactic Innovation grant. How can we train students from different backgrounds and majors to share their disciplinary knowledge in an accessible way? Dr. Lela Mosemghvdlishvili (they/them) used the grant to explore the best practices of knowledge sharing among students from different disciplinary and methodological backgrounds.
Future Societies Lab: addressing sustainability issues
Dr. Mendel Giezen developed the Future Societies Lab with the TLC-IIS Sustainability grant. A course in which students work on research questions on sustainability from society clients. A win-win for different parties for the benefit of societal sustainability transformations.
AI and education at the UvA: a lecture and discussion with rector magnifcus Peter-Paul Verbeek
On June 8, 2023, the TLC hosted an event to discuss the role of AI within education at the UvA. The rector magnificus provided a lecture followed by an open discussion. Read more about the course of the event and the most important outcomes here.
ChatGPT workshop for teachers
Take-homes of the workshop ChatGPT for lecturers (16 January 2023, by Programming Teaching Lab and TLC-Science)
Grassroots: playground for ICT applications that improve education
Medical educators Franka Luk and Jaqueline Houting are seasoned ‘Grassrooters’. They talk about their exciting ICT applications and development experiences.
UvA Lecturer of the Year 2020 René Smits talks about Connection: a special interdisciplinary lecture series
Teacher Story: Lela Mosemghvlishvili Embodied Contemplative Pedagogy: A Teacher’s Quest for Meaning in Academic Education
An interview with Dr L. (Lela) Mosemghvdlishvili on her TED talk on Embodied contemplative pedagogy:
Blended learning in 'Introduction to Criminal Law'
Clear structure, varied work formats and clear communication made the blended learning course Introduction to Criminal Law a success
Grassroots: how you can still offer knowledge clips with limited resources and time
Through knowledge clips, teaching material is offered in an interactive way and the flipped classroom principle is applied.
Grassroots grant: Geoanimations
Geoanimations, a powerful interactive didactic online tool for Physical Geography. Gotze van Kalsbeek explains how geoanimations, supported by a Grassroots grant, have contributed to education.