Didactical contract by Camilla Rump https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018 Opload your ideas en-us 2018-12-04 16:09:42 UTC 2026-03-17 01:16:11 UTC hello@padlet.com => Dedicating 5 minutes at the end of the class to Devolution / Teaser / Instruction for the NeXT class. https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311262137 => Assignments / preperation tasks should be not too complex.
=> Minimize and simplify preparatory Work
=> Establishing study groups with scheduled time for preparation ]]> 2018-12-05 08:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311262137 What can actually be done in teaching? gr.1 https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311262484 1. Group work is a good idea to activate students to be more involved in the exercise. They can exchange ideas. The students can also make presentations (create external motivation).  Exchange between the groups, not always be in a group which is of your interest, but come out of your comfort zone and work with others. 
2. Clear tasks for the group, what the students are supposed to do. Also a good introduction to bring everyone to a similar level. Implement more interactive presentations (vidos, pictures, quizzes, simple tests, excursions to see how the theory is implemented into practice and life, include real life examples e.g bring something from outside or someone: a patient from a hospital to be examined by the students). Presentations/slides can be available online for the students. Giving the students lecture notes before the lecture, so the students can prepare themselves for the class. 
3. Social aspects - grouping students, a good interaction between the teacher and the students, students giving feedback to each other, having online discussion forum where students can talk and discuss problems or issues with the current assignment. 
4. Flexible teaching approaches - e.g. group work, coming to the black board, asking each other questions.  ]]> 2018-12-05 08:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311262484 Mix of personalized / private and group based preparation https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311263520 Creating confidence for discussions in the class.]]> 2018-12-05 08:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311263520 Ensure that preparatory Group Work is brought into the teaching in the class (mental maps, summary slides, short presentation at beginning of class) https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311263902 2018-12-05 08:58:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311263902 Recommendations regarding reading: make distinction between basic (obligatory) and more advanced reading. Also informing about the broadness of the literature (perspective papers / essays vs focused - narrow topic papers) https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311264086 2018-12-05 08:59:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311264086 https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311264194
What is not negotiable?
-  punctuality at classes
- deadlines
- showing up for mandatory hours
- preparation for those mandatory hours if needed
- expectations towards students (but has to be communicated very clear!)
- learning outcomes

Negotiable:
- show up to lectures (as long as the students then prepare in their own time!)
- activity of students

Other comments:
At start of the course: give expectations to the students. Can you discuss this with your students or not? Depends for the teacher if he/she wants to stick to their plan or not. A teacher could give students different options. Some courses present the options for student to decide which part of their course makes up most of their grade – or give the option to let them do extra work on their “strong part” to make that count as a part of their grade too. 

Offer office hours – or hours where the students are not required to come, but can come if they do need the extra help. For office hours with many students expected: make some sort of “booking system”. 

As the course progresses: have less and less direct help from the teacher



]]> 2018-12-05 09:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311264194 Different "homework / tasks" assigned to different group - requirement of reporting / presenting. https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311264453 2018-12-05 09:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311264453 Ideally, a group work to collect results and a volunteer to present the results to the rest of the class. https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311264491 we are discussing what will be the right approach to mixing up students. if those students who are very well prepared are grouped separately from those students who are not so well prepared. The teacher thus devote more attention to the students who are not so well prepared, building up on prior knowledge?
We will implement a reward system such as praise and ribbons. ]]> 2018-12-05 09:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311264491 Other group members have to give feedback / validate work produced by the other group members - sharing the problem solving via internet teaching platform. https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311264771 2018-12-05 09:04:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311264771 Gearing the "time demands" of the perparatory work to the course "size" (ECTS points). https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311265764 2018-12-05 09:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cr22/IUPDec2018/wish/311265764