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About ALe

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The Academy for Teaching Development

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The Academy for Teaching Development (ALe) was officially established on 16 November 2017 as part of the DIES LEGENDI - Day of Teaching, following a decision by the Senate.
After a three-year pilot phase, the Executive Board made the decision in the 2020 summer semester to make the ALe permanent. The University Senate adopted the Regulations for the Academy for Teaching Development de on 15 September 2020.

The task of the Academy for Teaching Development (ALe) is to contribute to the further development of teaching and the promotion of teaching quality. In cooperation with the faculties and the Center for Teacher Education and Educational Research, it aims to create

- Develop strategies and quality criteria for the organisation of studies and teaching,
- provide innovative impetus for didactic and curricular optimisation and
- exchange information on successful and forward-looking teaching approaches.

The ALe supports initiatives for the further development of teaching within the framework of competitive application procedures: The university's Teaching Award is presented once a year. Teaching staff and students also have the opportunity to design, test or implement innovative ideas for the further development of teaching and learning at the university in internal university funding programmes. The ALe supports teaching staff in participating in external calls for proposals in the area of innovative concepts for university teaching.

Struktur der Akademie für Lehrentwicklung

Graphic: Academy for Teaching Development

In terms of structure, the ALe consists of a panel of experts and the ALe office. The panel of experts, which is made up of the Vice President for Teaching and Learning and representatives from the faculties, represents the broad spectrum of subjects at the university as well as all status groups involved in university teaching. An advisory function is performed by the Service Centre for Higher Education Didactics and, if applicable, external experts.

Members of the panel of experts

Members from the summer semester 2021

  • Vice-President

    apl. Prof. Dr. Karina Weichold (Vice-President for Learning and Teaching)

  • From among the university lecturers

    Members:
    Prof. Dr. Mirka Dickel (Centre for Teacher Training and Educational Research)
    Prof. Dr. Miriam Rose (Faculty of Theology)
    Prof. Dr. Iris Winkler (Faculty of Arts)
    Prof. Dr. Martin Ammon (Faculty of Physics and Astronomy)
    Prof. Dr. Orlando Guntinas-Lichius (Faculty of Medicine)
    Prof. Dr. Jan Schirawski (Faculty of Biological Sciences)

    Deputy members:
    Prof. Dr. Petra Frehe-Haliwell (Centre for Teacher Training and Educational Research)
    Prof. Dr. Christian Fischer (Faculty of Law)
    Prof. Dr. Alexander Gröschner (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)
    Prof. Dr. Ilya Pavlyukevich (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science)
    Prof. Dr. Felix Schacher (Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences)

  • From among the teaching associates

    Members:
    Dr. Clemence Dubois (Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences)
    Dr. Marion Schmidt-Wenzel (Faculty of Law)
    Dr. Stefan Fedtke (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)

    Deputy members:
    Dr. Maren Godmann (Faculty of Biological Sciences)
    Dr. Sandra Stuwe (Faculty of Arts)
    Dr. Jens Schumacher (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science)

  • From the student body

    Members:
    Benita Gesele (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)
    Adrian Minnich (Faculty of Physics and Astronomy)
    Richard Dahlke (Faculty of Arts)

    Deputy members:
    Sophia Bier (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)
    Manuel Allwang (Faculty of Medicine)
    Verena Menhofer (Faculty of Physics and Astronomy)

  • From among the non-scientific employees

    Member:
    Tommy Drexel (Faculty of Theology)

    Deputy member:
    Claudia Ehlers (Faculty of Medicine)

Members until the winter semester 2020/21

  • From among the university lecturers

    Members:
    Prof. Dr. Kim Siebenhüner (Vice-President for Learning and Teaching)
    Prof. Dr. Miriam Rose (Faculty of Theology)
    Prof. Dr. Andrea Esser (Faculty of Arts)
    Prof. Dr. Martin Mundhenk (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science)
    Prof. Dr. Sebastian Henn (Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences)
    Prof. Dr. Orlando Guntinas-Lichius (Faculty of Medicine)
    Prof. Dr. Michael May (Centre for Teacher Training and Educational Research)

    Deputy members:
    Prof. Dr. Käthe Schneider (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)
    Prof. Dr. Joachim v. Puttkamer (Faculty of Arts)
    Prof. Dr. Gerhard G. Paulus (Faculty of Physics and Astronomy)
    Prof. Dr. Stefan Halle (Faculty of Biological Sciences)
    Prof. Dr. Gianfranco Walsh (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)
    Prof. Dr. Michael Fothe (Centre for Teacher Training and Educational Research)

  • From among the teaching associates

    Members:
    Dr. Stefan Fedtke (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration)
    Dr. Stephan Gräf (Faculty of Physics and Astronomy)
    Dr. René Thierbach (Faculty of Biological Sciences)

    Deputy members:
    Dr. Dana Schneider (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)
    Dr. Caroline Klingner (Faculty of Medicine)
    Dr. Christina Kuhn (Faculty of Arts)

  • From the student body

    Members:
    Jonas Krüger (Faculty of Law) - until 10/2019
    Leonie Kuhn (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)
    Michelle Dembinski (Faculty of Arts)

    Deputy members:
    Michel Pannier (Faculty of Physics and Astronomy) - until 09/2020 
    Florian Hickl (Faculty of Medicine)
    Vanessa Huth (Faculty of Physics and Astronomy) - until 09/2020

Reports on the work of the panel of experts can be viewed and downloaded in HANFried.de de (Office of the Vice-President for Learning and Teaching / Academy for Teaching Development) (only with login).

Event calendar of the ALe

 

Date

Time Location Type of event
21/03/2024
10.00 - 16.00 Seminar room IBZ, 
Charlottenstraße 23
Closed meeting of the ALe
18/04/2024
8.30 - 10.00 tba Breakfast meeting ALe
24/04/2024
14.00 - 18.00 Senat Hall (UHG) awarding meeting
(application deadline March, 15)
12/06/2024 14.00 - 17.00 Senat Hall (UHG) Awarding meeting
Teaching Award 2024
18/09/2024 10.00 - 16.00

lecture hall ThULB

Closed meeting of the ALe
23/10/2024 14.00 - 16.00 Senat Hall (UHG) Awarding meeting
(application deadline September, 15)
19/11/2024 12.00 - 17.00 Auditorium UHG DIES LEGENDI Day of Teaching 2024

 

Contact

Academy for Teaching Development - Office

Fürstengraben 1
07743 Jena

  1. Hüfner, Katja, Dr Managing Director
    Vizepräsidentin für Studium und Lehre

    Universitätshauptgebäude
    Fürstengraben 1
    07743 Jena

    Dr. Katja Hüfner
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