Teacher Stories
Learn about the teaching practices in university education at the UvA. Teacher Stories are inspiring stories from teachers of all UvA faculties. These ideas and sample practices on various topics not only cover the teacher perspective, but also the student perspective. Get inspired and share the knowledge on teaching practices.
Do you have an experience you would like to share with fellow teachers? If so, please send an email to tlc@uva.nl.
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.
Visible Learning Trajectories Programme: Bachelor’s programme Psychology shares experiences
Last year, the bachelor’s programme in Psychology took part in the Visible Learning Trajectories Programme. Programme director Ingmar Visser shares their experiences.
Development of ‘World Food and Ecosystems’ course: three necessary skills for (big) data collection
Lies Jacobs (FNWI) used the TLC Didactic Innovation grant to focus on teaching students three skills needed for (big) data collection. She was awarded the grant in the 2021-2022 academic year to further develop the course ‘World Food and Ecosystems’. With the grant she focussed on teaching students three skills needed for (big) data collection: building self-confidence, essential coding skills and digital independence.
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.
Kick-off Higher Education in Transition (HOT)
HOT is looking for innovation and creation in education and research and wants to allow more movement in this. The initiative wants to push the boundaries in higher education and enable ‘benign disruptions’.
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)
The FRIS café: fresh, innovative and creative
The FRIS café enables informal talk about the experiences and projects of FRIS Grant holders. Read more about the purpose of the FRIS café.
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.
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.
