FLH3000 Basic Communication and Teaching 3.0 credits
This course is aimed at Ph.D. students who may work with different kinds of teaching. The course includes group work, individual work, mandatory meetings, and online work in Canvas. The main objective is to provide an opportunity to develop a foundation that enables the development of the participants’ teaching and their students’ learning.
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Course offerings for spring 2024
See the schedule and application links on the page Basic courses in Higher Education pedagogy
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The course has a high demand and the number of applicants often exceeds the number of places. It is important that at registration you are aware that you are expected to spend 80 hours on the course including mandatory meetings during the course period.
The first meeting is compulsory without exception. You must attend 5 out of the 6 meetings in order to pass the course. As we have designed the meetings with much interaction between the students, active participation is necessary to make the course both interesting and evolving for you and your course colleagues. There is a preparation task before every meeting.
Information for research students about course offerings
The course is usually given four times during the academic year, and is offered only in English.
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Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
The main themes for the course are:
- Basis for learning and teaching
- Natural learning environments
- Teaching of engineering sciences
- Feedback and supervision
- Interviews and group work
- Recording of teaching
- Your development as teacher
Intended learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student should be able to:
- apply basic concepts, materials and methods, as well as conditions for teaching and learning in higher education;
- discuss her/his own role in relation to sustainable development with focus on learning and teaching their own subject;
- present and explain subjects, and carry out activating assignments in their own knowledge field;
- give and receive feedback with focus on analysing, evaluating and developing teaching and learning;
- extract the most interesting parts of a scientific study and present it in an interesting way with focus on learning;
- analise a chosen area of a field study and relate the findings to their own teaching practice, for the development of their own educational skills and ability as teacher in the long run.
Course disposition
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Only for registered doctoral students at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Recommended prerequisites
Equipment
Literature
Bain, K., What the best college teachers do. 2004
The book is available online in Canvas.
Other articles, links and films are provided via Canvas.
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
Examination
- INL1 - Written assignment, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Examination elements in the course are design and feedback of a teaching and learning activity, field study and written assignments.
Other requirements for final grade
- Compulsory attendance at the first course meeting.
- Of the remaining meetings (five whole group meetings and one small group meeting), the student may not be absent more than once.
- Preparations are required before each meeting, and active participation is expected in discussions during meetings and group work.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
Course web
Further information about the course can be found on the Course web at the link below. Information on the Course web will later be moved to this site.
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Add-on studies
Contact
Supplementary information
To apply for FLH3000, the course should be included in your eISP.
Link to application form and more information: https://www.kth.se/social/course/FLH3000/