Advanced Training for Instructors
Learning and improving language skills in an academic setting demands high standards from instructors as well as from students. Students must make progress quickly and work independently, while at the same time juggling their other university commitments. The training workshops at the TUM Language Center offer instructors the opportunity to refine their teaching methods in this context. Instructors can also learn about current methodological and didactic developments and new ways to design lesson plans.
TUM employees and unaffiliated researchers who are interested in teaching are also welcome to attend these workshops if space is available. Please inquire by emailing sprachenzentrum@tum.de.
Upcoming Events
- AI Workshop: Trying out ElevenLabs & Designing Language Learning Products
Date: 15.09.2025
Time: 14:00–16:30
Do you want to take your teaching to the next level acoustically? In this workshop, we will create audio content for different CEFR levels together - using ChatGPT and the voice AI ElevenLabs.
- We develop linguistically and thematically appropriate dialogues,
- We create authentic listening examples that you can use immediately in your teaching
- We identify key features of successful listening comprehension tasks
- Every participant will leave with new experience and a concrete product!
- ONBOARDING – Training Program for New Instructors at TUM (ProLehre)
Online program with asynchronous self-learning elements (16.09.–07.10.2025) and mandatory live sessions:
Session 1: 23.09.2025, 09:00–12:00
Session 2: 30.09.2025, 10:00–12:00
Session 3: 07.10.2025, 10:00–12:00
Language: English
Registration until 15.09.2025 (Enrolment Key: ProLehre)
Contact: onboarding(at)prolehre.tum.de
- ONBOARDING – TUMTutor with question round
Date: 10.10.2025
Time: 13:00–14:00 (Online via Zoom)
Have you heard of TUMTutor? This AI-supported learning platform, developed by TUM computer science students (start-up OneTutor), can be integrated into our courses free of charge.
- Upload course materials and automatically generate suitable quiz questions;
- Provide individual support to students via an interactive chat function;
- Gain data-based insights to further develop our teaching.
- Designing Self-Learning Phases Didactically
Amelie Zauner (Pro Lehre | Media and Didactics)
Date: 17.10.2025
Time: 13:00–17:00
Self-learning phases are a central component of modern higher education teaching. This training course shows how they can be designed to be both structured and motivating. It focuses on how didactic concepts like scaffolding help create clear and effective structures for self-learning phases. Additionally, it addresses how to foster student motivation using didactic elements and digital tools, such as interactive H5P content.
- Exchange Session for Language Lecturers
Presentation of selected contributions from the TUM Language Center AI Newsletter (Dominik Selent, German) and the Safe and Effective Use of AI in Education Newsletter (Ross Clark, English)
Date: 28.10.2025
Time: 10:00
- How to Foster Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Dr. Dirk Jahn (Pro Lehre | Media and Didactics)
Date: 12.02.2026
Time: 10:00–14:00
- Understanding what critical thinking means in a higher education context (concepts and models)
- Methodical-didactic strategies teachers can use, e.g., to foster different modes of thinking
- Targeted use of digital media to support analysis, reflection, and evaluation processes (with a focus on AI)
- Learn definitions and approaches from research
- Actively promote critical thinking in students
- Use digital tools reflectively and effectively
- Design teaching-learning situations that enable independent thinking
Titel | Referent:in | Datum |
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Latest Developments in AI and Its Applications at Language Centers (Presentation and Discussion Event) Contents: Current state of the art, impacts, framework conditions, possible applications, challenges, and student survey results | Oliver Geike (Mediendidaktik Sprachenzentrum, Universität Bamberg) | 18.07.2025 |
Flipped Classroom in Language Teaching: When, Why, and How to Use This Method Successfully | - | 23.05.2025 |
Exchange session on AI in language teaching | - | 22.11.2024 |
How to design Flipped Classroom/Inverted Classroom – a model ideal for foreign language teaching Discover best practices for applying this method and explore how generative AI can aid in developing engaging activities for your students | Dr. Leah Sharp (ProLehre – Medien und Didaktik TUM) | 18.10.2024 |
AI in language teaching: Impulses and good practices | Dr. Daniela Hartmann (ZE Sprachenzentrum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) | 16.10.2024 |
Online training on Moodle (e.g. Moodle Plugin Margic) | Eva Dörfler (Pro Lehre TUM) | 05.07.2024 |
Practical workshop Constructive Alignment - How can we make teaching more effective and more learner-oriented? | Elvira Cyranka, ProLehre | 26.01.2024 |
Mindfulness for educators: Enriching the classroom with mindfulness | Giulia Comparato & Dominik Selent | 20.02.2024 |
Use of VR glasses as a teaching method | Isabel Hoffmann | 23.04.2024 |
Future-oriented learning autonomy | Ilka Dönhoff | 28.06.2024 |
Crash course in hybrid teaching | Denis Sedlmeier & Andreas Fleischmann (ProLehre TUM) | 27.01.2023 & 03.02.2023 |
Online workshop: What methods can I use to promote learner autonomy for my students in practice? | Dr. Serpil Sarialtin | 26.05.2023 |
Playground Chat GPT | - | 30.05.2023 |
Online meeting: Presentation and exchange opportunity in German and English with the two winners of the Bremen Research Prize 2023 in the field of foreign language research | Rebekka Nerger & Dr. Leonie Wiemeyer | 01.06.2023 |
Exchange session: Shaping learning success with AI | - | 13.10.2023 |
How do we make our engineers interculturally fit in language lessons? | Birgit Nierhoff-King | 28.01.2022 |
Body, language, presence online Handout | Roland Trescher | 08.04.2022 |
Open Space - open spaces for sharing and participating | Angelika Gärtner | 22.04.2022 |
How do you actually do fair tests? | Ulrike Arras | 20.05.2022 & 24.06.2022 |
AI writing workshop (online) - experience tools and techniques for AI-supported writing "live" | Prof. Dr. Doris Weßels | 16.12.2022 |
DaF Phonetics | Daniela Niebisch | 05.03.2021 |
Basic zoom training | - | 22.03.2021 |
Zoom experience exchange for advanced users | Claudia Hanke | 24.03.2021 |
Didactic online exchange session at the TUM Language Center | - | 09.04.2021 |
Wellness@Work - An introduction to Breathing Techniques and Desktop Yoga | Prof. Dr. Mrinalini KochupillaiI | 20.10.2021 |
Impulses for group dynamics in large groups - strengthening interaction in and outside the course | Elvira Cyranka | 20.10.2021 |
Collaborating Online | Lea Sharp | 20.10.2021 |
Body, language, presence online | Roland Trescher | 12.11.2021 |
"Building an online test in Moodle together" | Ross Clark, Claudia Hanke, Simone Schmidpeter | 21.10.2020 |
"Zoom training" | Claudia Hanke | 15.10.2020 |
Training modules "Information and tips for digital teaching" | Claudia Hanke & Daniela Niebisch | 31.03.2020 & 01.04.2020 |
Screencasting: Creating learning videos (How do I ensure that students watch my videos? How can I engage my engage my students with my videos? What if I make mistakes? Answers to these questions and more in this video). Video 1: Screencasting Basics Video 2: Eight tips for effective screencasting | Ross Clark | - |
Titel | Referent:in | Datum |
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Discrimination in everyday life - how can I overcome speechlessness and react appropriately? | Eva Reizmann de Bendit | 08.11.2019 |
Einfach und wirkungsvoll Visualisieren am Flipchart | Elvira Cyranka | 13.12.2019 |
Advanced training Write your own e-book | - | 05.07.2019 |
Workshop GeR/CV (Common European Framework of Reference/Companion Volume) | Dr. Ulrike Arras | 03.05.2019 |
Further training in inner attitude as a teacher | Dr. phil. Christian Boeser-Schnebel | 05.04.2019 |
Further training in dealing with cultural heterogeneity among students | Elisa Skowron | 22.03.2019 |
Workshop on using the Smartboard | Jutta Schlüter | 14.03.2019 |
Training around eLearning materials | Frau Ley | 15.02.2019 |
Digital course formats: Best practice examples and formats of the vhb | Ekvira Cyranka & Eva Dörfler | 12.10.2018 |
Exercises that train the brain | Dr. Marion Grein | 22.06.2018 |
Collegial observation | Sabine Schmidt-Bender - abgesagt | 25.05.2018 |
The receptive vocabulary needs of foreign language learners | Professor Erwin Tschirner | 27.04.2018 |
Paths to "film-literacy" - new textbooks from Hueber-Verlag and learning / teaching with film media | Dr. Barbara Biechele | 19.01.2018 |
Well said! | Daniela Niebisch | 17.11.2017 |
Mobile learning made easy | Ross Clark | 07.07.2017 |
Intercultural competence in the language classroom or "What's interesting going on here?" | Karl Hughes, Xilu Kozuschek, Marie Miyayama, Christina Thunstedt | 09.06.2017 |
Voice training | Helmut Becke | 20.01.2017 |
Writing a portfolio | Gerd Bräuer | 09.12.2016 |
Create an instructional video quickly and easily | Elvira Schulze | 10.06.2016 |
Testing, Part II | Dr. Astrid Reich | 03.06.2016 |
Create an instructional video quickly and easily | Elvira Schulze | 29.04.2016 |
Testing, Part I | Dr. Judit Tuschak | 23.02.2016 |
Flipped Classroom | Ross Clark | 20.11.2015 |
Language Center Forum | - | 23.06.2015 |
Cooperative learning II: Strategies for activation and differentiation | Claudia Hanke & Dorothea Hartkopf | 12.06.2015 |
Cooperative learning I | Raisig Shawn | 24.04.2015 |
Introduction/first steps with the Smartboard | Dr. Rosa Errico-Reiter | 21.11.2014 |
Continuation "Scenic learning" | Sabine Schmidt-Bender | 28.11.2014 |
Einführungsveranstaltung zum Thema Schreibberatung | Andrea Karsten | 27.10.2014 |
From dialog to online multilog | Dr. Margit Reitbauer | 24.10.2014 |
Portuguese as a heritage language | Camila de Lira | 18./19.10.2014 |
First (and further) steps with Moodle | Benedikt Schmidt | 25.09.2014 |
Scenic learning | Sabine Schmidt-Bender | 09.05.2014 |
Moodle training | Benedikt Schmidt | 20.02.2014 |
Motivation of students | Prolehre | 14.02.2014 |
Moodle e-test question types | Benedikt Schmidt | 21.06.2013 |
Interruptions | Harald Groß | 24.05.2013 |
Moodle Basics | Benedikt Schmidt | 15.03.2013 |
The successful board/whiteboard image | Martina Richter | 18.01.2013 |
Moodle made easy - Quick ways to collaboratively design foreign language lessons with the learning platform | Mag. Dr. Thomas Strasser | 04.10.2012 |
Cómo mejorar el desarrollo del aprendizaje léxico | Carmen García Gabriel | 28.09.2012 |
Work with the interactive whiteboard | Dr. Rosa Errico-Reiter | 12.05.2012 |
Moodle made easy - Quick ways to collaboratively design foreign language lessons with the learning platform | Mag. Dr. Thomas Strasser | 27.04.2012 |
Projects in foreign language classes | Dr. Annegret Schmidjell | 18.11.2011 |
Didactic use of the interactive whiteboard | Dr. Rosa Errico-Reiter | 28.10.2011 |
Interactive whiteboard - Technical introduction | Andreas Ferstl | 06.10.2011 |
Learning at stations - tools for effective, learner-active language learning | Petra Hölscher | 20.05.2011 |
Chinese students at TUM - How can they be adequately supported in language classes in multinational groups? Questions on learning culture and integration | Bettina Clemens | 12.11.2010 |
Group dynamics - The role of the teacher in learner-centered teaching | Encina Alonso | 25.06.2010 |
Film in the classroom - application and didactic possibilities of short films | Dr. Barbara Sabel | 07.05.2010 |
Memory techniques in foreign language classes | Horst Sperber | 20.11.2009 |
Intercultural communication | Thomas Schmid | 25./26.09.2009 |
Action-oriented teaching - learning in scenarios | Petra Hölscher | 15.05.2009 |
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