Hundredth Senior Teaching Qualification awarded
Twenty-one dedicated teachers were awarded their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on 21 January. Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them in a ceremony in the Academy Building with an extra celebratory touch as the milestone of the 100th SKO certificate was reached.
Awarding SKO certificates is always a celebration. ‘But today is that bit more special’, said Rector Hester Bijl in her opening remarks. During the occasion, the university passed the milestone of 100 SKO certificates. ‘An impressive achievement.’
Recognition and rewards
The SKO qualification is important, said Bijl, as it aligns with several of the university’s key ambitions. For instance, the goal of working in the next few years towards greater recognition of a broad range of achievements in teaching. ‘Where an academic career is now almost exclusively reserved for outstanding researchers, we want to focus on career paths within the teaching domain in the future. We introduced the SKO seven years ago to give our senior lecturers more recognition for their dedication and professionalism.’
The programme also supports the university’s aim to provide innovative, flexible and future-oriented academic education. ‘We think it essential that our students develop into independent academic professionals and engaged citizens. We can obviously only achieve this if our lecturers are committed to these values.’ These aspects were well represented in the SKO portfolios of the 21 recipients. ‘You are not only exceptional teachers for your students but also inspiring and motivating figures for your colleagues’, Bijl concluded.
Video: ‘Good teaching captures students’ attention’
What inspired teaching staff to undertake the SKO programme? And what has it brought them? Watch the video for an impression.
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Watch the video on the original website orThe following 21 lecturers received their Senior Teaching Qualification on 21 January
Faculty of Archaeology
Richard Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
Jurriaan Witteman
Anne-Isabelle Richard
Georgiana Balau
Suzanne Adema
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
David Zetland
Bibi van den Berg
Petra van den Bekerom
Faculty of Law
Ekaterina Pannebakker
Hendrik Vrijburg
Jessie Pool
Rogier Kegge
Sigrid van Wingerden
Faculty of Social Sciences
Anouk van der Weiden
Zsuzsika Sjoerds
Faculty of Science
Maurijn van der Zee
Olga Gadyatskaya
Evgeny Verbitskiy
Marcel van Daalen
ICLON
Michiel Dam
LUMC
Kirsten Langeveld
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Ekaterina Pannebakker receives her SKO certificate from rector Hester Bijl -
SKO participant Jessie Pool addresses the audience -
Assistant professor Jennifer Doekhie, who received her SKO last year, gives a lecture -
Senior Teaching Qualification
The SKO is a qualification for lecturers who play a leading role in the development and innovation of education at the curriculum level (i.e. beyond their own discipline). To achieve this qualification, lecturers must put together a portfolio that shows that they meet four final learning objectives:
- Conduct within the academic teaching environment;
- Creating and elaborating a didactic programme with a view to the context of a curriculum;
- Preparing and providing teaching;
- Impact on education within one or more degree programmes that extends beyond one’s own teaching programme.
In addition, an SKO candidate must be a lecturer who already has a Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO), has taught at the university level for at least five years in various subjects and years, and has applied a variety of educational methods in doing so. In addition, the lecturer must show that they have developed initiatives and made contributions that have an educational impact within one or more degree programmes transcending their own course or discipline.
You can read more about obtaining an SKO on the staff website.
Video and photo's: Danique ter Horst