NRW Certificate Professional teaching skills for the university
Teaching staff at the University of Bonn can take a structured approach to the augmentation of their didactic skills through participation in the NRW certificate program.
Please note the information provided in the FAQ.
NRW-certificate programme Professional Teaching Competences for Higher Education
The NRW-certificate programme Professional Teaching Competences for Higher Education focuses on achieving progress in five areas:
Teaching and Learning, Examining and Assessing, Guiding Students, Feedback and Evaluation and Developing Innovation in Teaching and Studying. The program is coordinated by all the member institutions of the “Hochschuldidaktik NRW” network, and participants can take courses at all member universities (depending on capacity).
For further information, please consult the graphic below or our pages in Confluence (accessible from BONNET or via VPN).
The subject areas and modules of the certificate programme
The NRW certificate consists of five subject areas, which extend over three consecutive modules.
While the subject area of Teaching and Learning focuses on the planning and design of the teaching and learning process, the subject area of Examining and Assessing emphasises the examination and assessment of skills acquisition. The third topic area, Guiding Students, focuses on individual advising situations and the fourth, Feedback and Evaluation, addresses feedback and evaluation processes for reflecting on one's own teaching, but also on student learning.
While the Basic Module lays the foundations for this in all subject areas, these can be expanded in the Extension Module. In the Project Module, the fifth subject area of Developing Innovation in Teaching and Studying is added, in which an individual teaching and learning project is developed.
Members of the University of Bonn can study for the NRW Professional Teaching Competence for Universities certificate at the BZH. To do so, please register in Confluence (accessible from BONNET or via VPN) in the section University didactic qualification.
Teaching staff from member institutions of the “Hochschuldidaktik NRW” network can take individual courses at the BZH. Nevertheless, the certificate is usually issued by their home institution.
Feel free to book a consultation session to learn more about the NRW certificate and our other offers! Simply write an email.
The NRW certificate program can usually be completed within three to five semesters. Participants must have completed the course after five years at the latest.
Members of the University of Bonn are also welcome to attend courses at other member institutions of the “Hochschuldidaktik NRW” network. An overview of all network provision is provided on the Courses and workshop web page of the “Hochschuldidaktik NRW” network.
Credits for university didactic training courses run by other institutions or networks are usually accepted for credit transfer to the NRW certificate, as long as the institution issuing them is affiliated to the German Association for Educational and Academic Staff in Higher Education (DGHD).
Qualifications without a direct reference to higher education didactics, but which support their holders in realizing the relevant university didactic learning outcomes (key qualification for teaching), can be subject to credit transfer to cover max. 10% of the entire certificate program (20-24 WU).
Please feel free to make an appointment for a consultation to resolve questions pertaining to credit transfer.
Use of Confluence requires registration in or a VPN connection to BONNET. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network and establishes a secure and encrypted connection via the non-secure public Internet.
For information about the collection, storage and use of your personal data and your rights as a user, please consult the Information on Data Collection and Data Processing. By registering for a workshop using one of our forms, you give the Bonn Center for Higher Education Teaching your consent to the use, storage and transmission of your personal data to external trainers for organizational purposes as defined by art. 6 para. 1 a) GDPR. You can withdraw this consent at any time with effect for the future without the need to state reasons.
Contact
Inquiries on qualification
Please address all inquiries about our qualification programs to: bzh-qualifizierung@uni-bonn.de
Your contact persons
All contact persons for the individual aspects of our provision: The BZH team
See also
Workshops and courses
Our University didactics workshops and courses for teaching staff
OER at the University of Bonn
Information about and services relating to open educational resources, our OER office hours and the ORCA.nrw state portal