ProLehre Onboarding: Start Your Journey to Effective Teaching
We know that beginning your career as a university teacher can be challenging. To make your start in teaching at the Technical University of Munich easier, we have developed a didactical onboarding course.
In this twelve-hour online course, we teach you the essential didactic and technical basics for teaching at a university. You can gain a concise understanding of university teaching through the designed Live Sessions and Self-Study Phases over a period of three weeks. Further, you can get in touch with teachers from the other Schools who are in a similar situation to yours. Our focus is on combining evidence-based fundamentals with practical suggestions and concrete strategies so that you can apply the content from the course directly to the planning and delivery of your course.
Key features:
- You will learn about didactical methods and digital tools that can help you to teach effectively and efficiently.
- You will get to know other new teachers and gain insights into subjects from other Schools.
- You will receive study units, which count towards gaining the Certificate for Teaching in Higher Education at Bavarian Universities.
- This course is free of charge for you as a teacher at the Technical University of Munich.
*We offer the didactic ProLehre Onboarding every two months. The next course dates are:
- May Course 2025 [Registration in Moodle here*; deadline 12.05.2025 midnight]
The asynchronous Self-Study Phase starts on 13.05.2025 and ends on 03.06.2025.
Live Session 1: 20.05.2025, 09:00-12:00
Live Session 2: 27.05.2025, 10:00-12:00
Live Session 3: 03.06.2025, 10:00-12:00
- July Course 2025 [Registration link will follow in mid-June]
The asynchronous Self-Study Phase starts on 16.07.2025 and ends on 06.08.2025.
Live Session 1: 23.07.2025, 09:00-12:00
Live Session 2: 30.07.2025, 10:00-12:00
Live Session 3: 06.08.2025, 10:00-12:00
* If you have not received an invitation email with the enrollment key via your School, please email us at onboarding(at)prolehre.tum.de. We will then send you the enrollment key for the self-enrollment in Moodle.
The ProLehre Onboarding pursues multiple objectives. In addition to imparting basic knowledge of higher education pedagogy, it intends to promote networking among new teachers within and outside their own School. Particularly, it can be helpful for new teachers to gain a basic understanding of how learning, teaching, and assessing work at a university. The ProLehre Onboarding aims to provide lecturers who have little teaching experience with methods that they can immediately implement to improve teaching at TUM. Lectures interested in further enhancing their teaching expertise can pursue additional courses and workshops offered by ProLehre.
The course is divided into five modules:
- Get to Know the Course (0,5 h): Here, participants are given a general overview of the ProLehre Onboarding .
- Start Your Journey (1,5 h): In this module, networking elements ensure that participants get to know each other. Moreover, participants are invited to reflect on their teaching experience so far, becoming aware of their own teaching style.
- Explore Good Teaching (3 h): In this module, participants will get an overview of success factors for teaching and learning, such as activation, feedback, and outcome orientation.
- Focus on Your Elective (5 h): Participants now have a choice - they can either explore how to supervise student theses, learn how to didactically design exams, or concentrate on designing courses. Each elective includes a two-hour peer group meeting.
- Put in Into Practice (2 h): In the final course element, participants reflect on ideas that they plan to incorporate from the ProLehre Onboarding into their own teaching and define their next steps.
The ProLehre Onboarding consists of Live Sessions as well as Self-Study Phases and takes place exclusively online on the Moodle learning platform and via Zoom. The course runs over a period of three weeks and involves 12 hours of work or 16 study units of 45 minutes each. The course is held in English. Participants enroll independently in the corresponding Moodle course.
On the following page, you can find answers to the most frequently asked questions concerning the organization of the ProLehre Onboarding.
