Once a year, we offer the continuing education program SCHREIBEN LEHREN for lecturers and PhD students. The entire course can be credited towards the Paderborn University's "Professional Teaching Skills for Higher Education" certificate program. As part of the higher education didactics certificate program, individual events of the course can also be attended.

Director: Dr Andrea Karsten

Scope of the training program:

• 8 workshop days (four one-day workshops and two 2-day block events)
• Realisation of an own event in the practical phase (writing didactic workshop of approx. 10 hours or a writing-intensive course of 2 SWS)
• Co-operation in the preparation and supervision of another didactic writing course
• 2-hour final meeting

Aims and content of the program:

The practice-oriented continuing education program qualifies you to develop writing workshops and writing-intensive courses in your subject area and to accompany and advise students on their way into the writing culture of your subject. In the workshops and block courses, we teach methods and theoretical background information on the processes of academic work and writing and on writing counselling and didactics. This includes exercises for getting into writing, defining a topic and structuring ideas as well as techniques for excerpting texts, processing what you have read in your own text and revising what you have written so far.

Together we will work out how writing didactic units can be sensibly structured and guided. Feedback on students' texts and counselling on student work is another focus of the course. In addition, we support you in designing your own program.

As a cross-sectional task, we would like to sensitise you to a basic attitude that understands writing as a subject-specific process and at the same time leaves room for the development of personal writing strategies. Methodologically, we realise this through reflective and interactive exercises, station learning and direct work on your own and other people's texts.

Contact: Dr Andrea Karsten