UP Workshops - January 9th 2025
Workshops on teaching and learning in university science
Gain new inspiration and develop your teaching through a new series of workshops offered by the Department of Science Education (IND). The workshops are aimed at academic staff at the Faculty of SCIENCE and participants attending Universitetspædagogikum (UP).
Where
The workshops takes place at IND, Niels Bohr Building (NBB), Rådmandsgade 64, 2200 København N in the following rooms:
- 02.0.H.128
- 02.0.H.140
- 02.0.H.106
- 02.0.H.146
- 02.0.H.154
When
The workshops begin at 1 pm and end at 4 pm.
Registration
Registration is required. Please note, that registration will close two weeks before the workshop, or when each workshop has reached its maximum number of participants. A workshop may be canceled if there are too few registrations.
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1: Am I on the right track, professor? - A workshop on youth culture and well-being in the classroom
A workshop on youth culture and well-being in the classroom
Are you wondering how you can support the students’ well-being in your teaching? And do you struggle to find the balance between meeting the students’ demands and owning your classroom? Join this workshop to get more insight into:
- How tendencies in time affect the new generations of university students – and thereby your classroom
- The concept of well-being – in general, and at UCPH
- A few points on data and research on well-being
During the workshop, you will get inspiration and perspectives on how to:
- balance the student’s demands with your approach to teaching and learning.
- continue to work with well-being in your classroom to support good student life for your students.
Workshop developers
Line Ellemann-Jensen, well-being consultant, SCIENCE Study and Career guidance
Marie Brogaard, well-being consultant, SCIENCE Study and Career guidance
2:”…and you are there!” Put your students on the scene with scenario-based teaching
Ever have your students view an important concept in your discipline as something that has always existed, as if it just fell out of the sky into someone’s lap? What if they had to start with some basic information available at the time and address the difficulties of developing this concept themselves? Alternatively, ever have your students learn a new concept and think they could apply it (“no problem!”) only to find out that they have no clue? What if you placed them in a situation where they have to put that new concept to use while you feed them clues along the way?
Welcome to the exciting possibilities of scenario-based teaching. In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to see how it is possible to create a scenario that will enhance student learning in your course, sketch it out, and share your prototype with your colleagues.
Workshop developers
Kristine Cecile Harper, Professor, History and Philosophy of Earth Sciences, Deputy Head of Department for Teaching, IND
3: Making actually good multiple-choice tests: Insights for measuring learning
Will your students ever take a multiple-choice exam, quiz, or survey? A common belief is that multiple choice questions are “no good” for assessing deep and complex learning. This workshop offers another perspective from learning science and psychometrics (the quantitative field developing ways to measure human knowledge and beliefs, often with closed-ended questions).
In this workshop you will be introduced to a design-based process for writing multiple choice questions that measure deep and complex learning. You’ll be guided in an overview of theory and statistical models from the field of psychometrics to get insights into how you might use simple questions to learn about complex things. Finally, we you will discuss if and how multiple-choice questions can be a useful pedagogical tool in your teaching.
Workshop organisor
Danielle Hagood, postdoc, Center for Digital Education, IND