Teaching students is part of academic life. Whether it’s a workshop or a seminar, quality teaching is what matters most in students’ experiences and outcomes. Improve your (online) teaching with just a few tips and tricks. Profit from the opportunity to set and achieve your teaching goal, present your work, and get personal feedback. In this development circle, you will also learn about the principles of efficient and effective communication with students, essential traits of great teachers, resilience and well-being in the workplace, evidence-based teaching practices that work, and a fundamental basis of effective online pedagogy. You can apply the inputs in your own course, developing course content at your own pace. Even if you have a rich teaching experience, you can use this time to reflect on your teaching with close and careful attention and embrace feedback as a learning opportunity (pipes still can become clogged over time and need to be cleaned!). Each of the twelve sessions outlined below will include instructor inputs, reflection on the individual weekly goal, creating and sharing the goal for the next week, and getting feedback from the instructor and other participants of the circle. Participants may volunteer to provide more detailed information about a current challenge; the others contribute their ideas towards a solution. By making contributions that might be helpful to other people (e.g., sharing your work and experiences, offering your attention or feedback), you are making a positive difference and strengthening the meaning of a relationship. With time your contributions build trust and cultivate a greater sense of competence and connection with other people, increasing the chances for information exchange and collaboration. You become more effective at work and feel in control too, because you have access to more people, knowledge, and opportunities. Positive relationships—more opportunities. The Development Circle Workbook will walk you through what to do each week. You will meet your peer support group for 1 hour per week for 12 weeks. The course aims to provide you with the tools to improve your teaching skills as well as offer you the opportunity to develop a meaningful network.

1. 07.07.2021 – 22.09.2021
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2. What has been the highlight of
your day so far?

3. § Dr. Julia Morinaj
§ Postdoc, Institute of Educational Science,
University of Bern, Switzerland
§ Research interests:
oWell-being in school
oSchool alienation
oMotivation, emotion, and learning in school
contexts
oClassroom participation
oTeacher–student interactions
oResearch methods

4. § DECI – a method for building relationships that can help you achieve a
goal, develop a new skill, or explore a new topic or the next step in your
career
§ Regular exchange/networking: You meet with your peer support group
for 1 hour per week for 12 weeks
§ Goal-setting: Choose a goal you genuinely care about! It will orient your
activities & help others help you
§ Making your work visible: Share with the others what you do
§ Positive & caring relationships—more opportunities!

5. Opportunity to…
§ improve your (online) teaching
§ set & achieve your teaching goal, present your work, get personal
feedback
§ learn about the principles of efficient & effective communication with
students, essential traits of great teachers, evidence-based teaching
practices that work, a fundamental basis of effective online pedagogy,
resilience & well-being in the workplace

7. The participants...
§ will be able to set and achieve an individual teaching goal
§ will be able to reflect on their own teaching & receive individual feedback
§ will be able to learn a systematic approach towards any goal
§ will be able to deepen the sense of competence, control, & relatedness
§ will be able to improve efficiency & effectiveness at work
§ will be able to make their work & experiences visible
§ will be able to develop trustworthy, meaningful, & lasting relationships with
people pursuing similar goals

8. Structure of the sessions:
§ facilitator inputs
§ reflection on the individual weekly goal
§ creating & sharing the goal for the next week
§ getting feedback from the instructor & other participants of the circle
* Participants may volunteer to provide more detailed information about a current
challenge; the others contribute their ideas towards a solution

9. § Introduction of Development Circle Workbook
§ Introduction of participants
§ Focus: Circle goal setting, Planning Week 1
§ Individual reflection

10. §Let’s look inside…

11. 1) You
o Your name, affiliation, current position
o What is your research about?
o What do you like most in your study/work?
o What are your most important professional qualities & stenghts?
o What are your interests?
o Why are you participating in this development circle?
2) Your contribution to the circle
o How will you communicate & help each other in this circle?
* Make notes on page Meeting Week 1

12. 1) Your goals
o What are your goals? How can you help others?
2) Development Circle Workbook
o Starting up (5 min)
o Circle goal setting (10 min)
o Planning Week 1 (2 pages, 10 min)

13. § Development Circle Workbook: Fill out the pages Review Week 1,
Planning Week 2 (2 pages).
§ Reading Session 2 (Why teacher–student relationships matter?):
McGrath, K. F., & Van Bergen, P. (2015). Who, when, why and to what
end? Students at risk of negative student–teacher relationships and
their outcomes. Educational Research Review, 14, 1-17.

14. What’s my biggest learning or
insight from this meeting?