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TA @ FBSE
Senior and junior teaching professionals
LESEC annual event 2019March 14
Atrium and Aula Group T, Leuven
2
Michiel Baumers
Evelien De Cooman Erik Verraedt
Eline Vetters
Junior teaching professionals
Lab
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ns
Linda Goffings Ludmila Peckova
Kris Vandezande Peter Salaets
Senior teaching professionals
Els Moyson Hilde Bemelmans Ine Rombouts
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Luc Verryt
ECOVO @ FBSE
• ExpertiseCel voor OnderwijsVerstrekking en Ondersteuning
• Educational unit, focus on practical courses for bachelor students BSE
1st bachelor
2nd bachelor
3rd bachelor
MathematicsStatistics
BiologyEnvironment
ChemistryBiochemistry
PhysicsTechnology
TA of department
TA of department TA of
department
TA outsideFaculty
(11*30)
(8*30)
(8*30)
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Excursions and field work
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Laboratory practical sessions
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Exercise sessions
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Work flow during the academic year
courses
study
exams
• Practical courses (ca. 18 h / week)
• Scoring of assignments• Feedback to students and professors• Logistic preparations for practical sessions
• Critical evaluation of teaching methods, exercises, experiments and logistic tasks• Updating/creating didactic material• Design of new exercises and experiments in accordance with the professor
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Teaming up
• Faculty student administration
o Sheduling practical courses in the bachelor’s programme
o Allocating students in class groups
o Scheduling exams (ombuds)
o Mediating between students and examiners (ombuds)
• Educational staff
o Educational tasks• Including scoring student’s practical work and attitude
• Including administrative tasks
o Offering support for professors• Toledo
• New learning formats
• Detection of plagiarism (Turnitin)
• …
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Teaming up
• Program director and Faculty educational policy
o Quality assurance of educational curriculum• Critical evaluation of teaching methods, exercises, experiments…
• Half-yearly online surveys
• Team meetings
• Professionalisation (educational workshops and events by DOO, LESEC…)
o Active participation at POCs• Mapping of intake/progression/graduating of students
• Monitoring the effect of certain decisions …
• LESEC
o Networking and exchange of ideas
o Participation in LESEC groups
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Teaching professionals: a critical view
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• Focus on teaching (<-> PhD TA)
o Advantage or disadvantage?
• Scoring of students (<-> student TA)
o Needs certain distance, maturity and authority
• Constructive interplay between junior and senior professionals
• JUNIORShort term contract (max 5 y)Recent alumnus
Fresh viewFamiliar with the curriculumFlexible (employability and #)
Flexibility is not always feasableLack of continuity (experience loss)Risk of early drop out
• SENIORPermanent positionPhD holder
ContinuityTutor for the juniorsFacilitation of course innovationRole in educational policy
Too little time for educational-basedresearch and teaching innovations
TA @ FBSE
Senior and junior teaching professionals
LESEC annual event 2019March 14
Atrium and Aula Group T, Leuven