Registration
Registration for the Tutor Academy Summer Semester 2025 will begin shortly before the Easter holidays.
Content and Teaching Methods
The Tutor Academy is a program designed to train student assistants to support instructors, especially in the preparation and implementation of tutorials. It is designed with a self-paced online course combined with in-person workshops, to equip aspiring teaching assistants with the essential skills and knowledge for excellent teaching in German universities. It offers a comprehensive approach to understanding and implementing effective teaching practices. By the end of the course, students will be able to support professors and lecturers in creating and running in-person, online, or hybrid lectures, tutorials, and seminars. No grade or ECTS units are given for this course, but if all 30 work units (1 work unit corresponds to 45 minutes of effort) are completed, students will receive a certificate of participation from ProLehre | Medien und Didaktik.
Topics
- Your Role as a Tutor
- Teaching & Learning Theories
- Designing a Tutorial
- Digital Media and Moodle
Workshops
Bring your learning to life in our hands-on workshop. An all-day workshop will be held in person on Tuesday, 8. April. For those who cannot attend in person, there will be an alternative half-day workshop held online on Thursday morning, 10. April. Registration for the workshops will be available through the Moodle course.
Support for hybrid teaching
Hybrid teaching—where some students attend in person while others join online simultaneously—can be a challenging format. But you don’t have to navigate it alone! Our self-paced online training course equips instructors and student teaching assistants with the skills to succeed in this dynamic environment. Self-enrollment via Moodle opens at the beginning of April.
If you're looking for equipment recommendations, check out our Hybride-Koffer-Lösung. You can test out the equipment in our offices by appointment.
The Tutor Academy is a program designed to train student assistants to support instructors, including the preparation and implementation of in-person and online teaching.
Originally conceived as a sub-project to the Instructional Design Initiative, in the summer semester of 2020, the eScout Academy was opened to all students, instructors, secretaries, and administrative staff who wanted to help teachers with the short-term conversion of face-to-face teaching to online teaching. In total, more than 500 people have already participated in this online program, making an important contribution to the successful digital transformation of teaching at TUM.
In the SoSe 2024, we will focus on training student teaching assistants (tutors) in didactics and how to run a tutorial. The course will be fully online, with regular networking activities. The Tutor Academy is open to all students, regardless of their employment status. Students hired as tutors or Hiwis may enroll in this course to be trained as a Tutor. In addition, non-employed students may enroll as an opportunity for professional development.