Workshops and meetings
The Faculty of Humanities offers a diverse array of workshops and other events for lecturers. See below for an overview.
Lecturer workshops HUM 2024-2025
During the academic year 2024-2025, the Humanities faculty offers several workshops for lecturers. You can choose 1 or more of the workshops below:
Intervision
Discussing pedagogical issues.
Intervision involves working on pedagogical issues that participants bring from their own teaching. Together they explore a range of solutions to issues such as “How can I get all my students to participate actively in class?" or "How do I deal with students who don't prepare for lectures?”
Contact: Annebeth Simonsz
Workshop leaders: Maarten van Leeuwen, Astrid Van Weyenberg, Looi van Kessel, Lisa Wolring, Marjoleine Vermeulen
Active learning strategies
Get students actively involved.
In this workshop we discuss ways of activating students on the basis of case studies provided by the participants. We will discuss dilemmas such as: How to make sure that students come to class prepared? Howto engage all students in the discussion? And how do you make students responsible for their own learning process?
Contacts/ Trainers: Maarten van Leeuwen en Astrid Van Weyenberg
Active Learning Classroom
Active learning in a flexible classroom.
This workshop takes place in an Active Learning Classroom (ALC). During the workshop, you will learn how to use activating work forms and how students can collaborate using the flexible furniture and whiteboards of an ALC. Even teaching outside is possible in these rooms.
Contacts/ Trainers: Anna Benjamins, Annebeth Simonsz
Brightspace Basics
Learn the basic functionalities of Brightspace.
In the Basics workshop, we look at some of the basic Brightspace functionalities such as uploading documents, classlist, communicating with students and preparing and assessing Assignments.
Contact: ecole@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Trainer: Minke Jonk-Thuong
Brightspace Grades
Choose the right settings for your course.
In the Grades workshop we look at how Brightspace calculates grades and how to choose the correct settings so that by the end of the workshop, your gradebook is ready for use.
Contact: ecole@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Trainer: Minke Jonk-Thuong
Generative AI
How do you deal with GenAI in your teaching?
How to deal with GenAI in the classroom?
How to test robustly?
Goal: dealing with disruption
Contact: Tanja de Bie
Trainers: Anthea Aerts, Donna Schippers
Podcasting
Learn how to use podcasts in your teaching.
In this workshop we focus on the didactical aspects of podcasting, including different format types. Based on a prototype podcast you will have prepared for the session, you will receive valuable feedback and insights on how you can use podcasting for education.
Contact: Tanja de Bie
Trainers: Sebas Munoz, Yentl Croese
Education for large groups
Effectively organising lectures for big lecture halls.
Active education in large groups. Tips on how to deal with scaling your education.
Contact: Tanja de Bie
Trainers: various.
Roles and styles in teaching
Which teaching style suits your teaching?
In this workshop, we employ reflective tools and collaborative activities to bring teachers’ perception of roles, responsibilities and teaching styles to a more active, agent and responsive level of awareness.
Goal: Teachers can make more conscious choices based on the classroom dynamics, needs and microculture.
Contact: Tanja de Bie
Trainer: Nilou Daneshkhan
FeedbackFruits in Brightspace
Gain more from your course with FeedbackFruits.
Reduce your work pressure by using FBF in Brightspace, including Interactive document, Peer Review and Assignment Review.
Goal: after the training your course is ready in Brightspace.
Contact: Tanja de Bie
Trainers: Anthea Aerts, Yentl Croese
Self-Regulated Learning
Promote self-efficacy among your students.
In this workshop, you will learn how to promote students' self-regulated learning skills, using a variety of resources and learning processes.
Goal: How to support self-regulated learning skills in your daily teaching practice
Contact: Tanja de Bie
Trainers: various.
Blended Learning Serious Game
Turn your course into a good blended mix.
Learn in a playful manner how you can use different parts (digital and in the classroom) of your curriculum or course design to come to a good blended mix.
Contact: Tanja de Bie
Trainers: Marijne Scherjon, Marjoleine Vermeulen
Interested?
Interested in one of these workshops? Please let us know via the button below before 15 September 2024. The time and place of the workshops will be communicated at the start of the new semester.
Lunchbytes FGW and FGGA at the Campus Den Haag
All FGGA and Humanities teachers are welcome to join the lunchbytes at Campus The Hague. While enjoying a free lunch you will get inspired by fellow lecturers and get new ideas for your teaching. All lunchbytes are free of charge and will be presented in English. We hope to see you at one or more lunchbytes!
More information on the lunchbytes
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