Advanced Training for Instructors

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