Reflection

This category is designed to help you reflect on your teaching practice. It offers suggestions on how to incorporate reflection methods, analyse feedback and incorporate improvements. This will enable you to document your experiences and make targeted use of them, share them with others or apply them to future teaching projects.

Reflection

This category is designed to help you reflect on your teaching practice. It offers suggestions on how to incorporate reflection methods, analyse feedback and incorporate improvements. This will enable you to document your experiences and make targeted use of them, share them with others or apply them to future teaching projects.

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Feedback in teaching
Since John Hattie’s meta-study “Visible Learning” was translated into German in 2013, one topic has become an integral part of the debate about our education system: feedback. But what is feedback and what is not?
How to transfer Good Practices
Didactic design patterns (also known as patterns) document good practices in teaching. They are based on experience gained from teaching practice. The structured form of patterns allows tried and tested solutions to recurring problems to be described and published in an easily understandable way. As a result, they make good practices visible and offer a…
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Peer Tutoring – Students Support Students
With peer-to-peer tutoring from students for students, the services of the Writing Center have been expanded to include a particularly low-threshold format. But what exactly is behind it – and how does peer tutoring complement the teaching and learning culture at TH Köln?
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Reflection & Evaluation in COIL Projects
In the final phase of a COIL project, students come together, present, and reflect on their results. They look back on their academic insights as well as the experience of international collaboration, making their joint achievements visible. At the same time, instructors evaluate the project academically, organizationally, and interculturally. This phase is essential for ensuring…
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Researching your own teaching with SoTL
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is an approach to researching one’s own teaching. With SoTL, you can make a significant contribution to advancing teaching practice through your scientific findings.
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Why evaluate teaching – and how does that work with TAP?
For students to learn successfully, teaching must be appropriately designed. Likewise, students should take responsibility for their own learning process. This means that students themselves are very good at judging how teaching should be designed for them. For this reason, there are regular evaluations at the TH Cologne that make the quality of teaching visible…

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