Workgroup Teacher Programme (WTP)

The programme develops four core competencies:

• Teaching
• Testing and assessing students
• Supervising students
• Evaluating one’s own teaching

These competencies are introduced at a basic level in WTP and further refined in the UTQ. Each training consists of a 3-hour session with required preparation and time allocated for processing. In addition, peer consultation is facilitated by TLC-FMG for Departments that do not offer this themselves.

Target audience

UvA teachers are welcome to participate in the trainings. Specifically, the WTP includes mandatory training for Teacher 4 positions, with Year 1 focusing on fundamentals and Year 2 assuming some teaching experience. Other teachers are also welcome to join. Departments such as Anthropology, Sociology, SGPL, Political Science, and ISW offer additional peer consultation sessions facilitated by TLC-FMG.

Programme sessions

The first year of the WTP consists of a 2-day Didactic bootcamp as a kick-start for teaching. Following this, Evaluating your own teaching, Feedback on written assignments, Guiding discussion, and Structuring supervision can be followed in an order of choice.

The second year of the WTP is made up of (Non)verbal teaching behaviour, Teaching Video Reflection, Tailoring Supervision, Conflict Management, Group Dynamics, and Professional Future. Peer consultation sessions are offered almost every month for participants in either year.

Please see the table below for more information.

Registration

To register for a training or peer consultation, click on the specific training or peer consultation on the TLC-FMG website to access its information page and register. Choose a session that fits your schedule. After clicking “enroll,” select a session for the training and confirm your enrollment. Your status will display as “enrolled” once successful; if it shows “waiting for event,” you still need to select a session.

If you need to unenroll, do so as soon as possible by clicking the “unenroll” button where you registered. Unenrolling at least a week in advance frees up your spot for a colleague. Please inform the trainer if you would like to unenroll less than a week in advance.

Teachers in the first year of the WTP will register during the Didactic Bootcamp for the modules in year 1. They can then click the following button:

Register for all modules of WTP year 1

Teachers in the second year of the WTP can click the button below.

Register for all modules of WTP year 2