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-fmg@uva.nl.
Experiences with the 'throwing microphone': Catchbox in UvA education
The Catchbox is a wireless microphone in the shape of a soft cube, which you throw at each other. Prof. dr. Hilde Geurts and Dr. Vincent de Rooij share their experiences.
TLC-FMG - The Teaching Timesavers Event 2022
Do you spend hours and hours on feedback, feed up, and feedforward? Perhaps there are ways to save you some time.
Tips for Teachers 2
Rather than making each topic fit neatly within one day’s class period, intentionally structure topics to end three-fourths of the way through the time, leaving one quarter of the time to start the next module/topic. This generates an automatic bridge between sessions and better meets learning science principles of the spacing effect and interleaving topics.
Tips for Teachers 1
Show students an image with no explanation, and ask them to identify/explain it, and justify their answers. Or ask students to write about it using terms from lecture, or to name the processes and concepts shown. Also works well as group activity. Do not give the “answer” until they have explored all options first.
FMG Docent van het Jaar 2022
Milio van de Kamp, docent Interdisciplinaire Sociale Wetenschap is in 2022 verkozen tot FMG Docent van het Jaar. TLC-FMG interviewde Milio om zijn verhaal, doelen en ervaringen te horen. Milio vertelt zijn verhaal als eerstegeneratiestudent en zijn pad door het Nederlandse educatiesysteem heen. Hoe zet hij zijn ervaringen in als docent? Bekijk het hier in een interview met Milio.
On campus vs. online education
A false dichotomy
Dr. Hillie Aaldering and Dr. Brigitte ten Brink researched the advantages and disadvantages on online education. In this article the upsides and downsides of online education will be treated.
Social interaction is even more important in online education and learning
Leer van de ervaring en expertise van dr. Jaap Schuitema over sociale interactie in het onderwijs.
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.
Student selection for limited available seats
Chalkless Lectures
A digital solution to the drawback of chalk-/whiteboards.
Back to Campus event
At the Back to the Campus event, the FMG-TLC provided three live demonstrations of a Hybrid Learning Theatre, OWL and BRIO that we can use when teaching on campus erupts again in September 2021.