About ALe

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Foundation and permanent establishment

On 6 June 2017, the Senate decided to establish the Academy for Teaching Development de.
The Academy for Teaching Development (Akademie für Lehrentwicklung (ALe)) was then officially opened on 16 November 2017 as part of the ‘DIES LEGENDI’.

After three years, in the summer semester 2020, the Executive Board decided on the continuation of the ALe on the basis of the ALe’s previous activities and the content-related work of the its panel of experts. On 15 September 2020, the Senate passed the Regulations for the Academy for Teaching Development de.

Task of the ALe

It is the task of the Academy for Teaching Development to contribute to the further development of teaching and the promotion of teaching quality. Together with the faculties and the Centre for Teacher Training and Educational Research, the ALe

develops strategies and quality criteria for the design of studies and teaching,
sets innovation impulses for improving didactics and curriculums,
and exchanges information on successful and pioneering teaching approaches.

The ALe supports initiatives for the further development of teaching within competitive application procedures. In addition to the University's Teaching Award, suitable funding lines are to provide impetus for the conception and implementation of new teaching concepts.
The panel of experts is responsible for advertising and conferring the Teaching Award and funding related to the development of teaching.

Structure of the ALe

Struktur der Akademie für Lehrentwicklung Graphic: Academy for Teaching Development

The ALe consists of a panel of experts and the ALe office. It is headed by the Directorate. The members of the Directorate (scientific director and deputies) are nominated by the panel of experts from among its members and are appointed by the Executive Board.

The Academy’s office in the Office of the Vice-President for Learning and Teaching supports the panel of experts in its tasks, while the Service Centre for Higher Education Didactics(LehreLernen) provides advice. In cooperation with the panel of experts, the Service Centre for Higher Education Didactics helps to realize the goals of the Academy for Teaching Development. In order to promote teaching competences, it provides qualification and advisory services for lecturers and students involved in teaching.

Imagefilm der ALe - Kurzvorstellung der Akademie
Video: Avocadofilm de

Panel of experts

Panel members from the summer semester 2021

From among the university lecturers

Members:
Prof. Dr. Kim Siebenhüner (Vice-President for Learning and Teaching)
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. Tobias Rothmund (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences)
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)
Theresa Küchle (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)
Tjorben Matthes (Faculty of Physics and Astronomy)

From among the non-scientific employees

Member:
Tommy Drexel (Faculty of Theology)

Deputy member:
Claudia Ehlers (Faculty of Medicine)

Panel 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

Event calendar of the ALe

Date	Time	Location	Type of event
26/04/2023	14.00 - 18.00	Senat Hall (UHG)	awarding meeting (4 funding lines, application deadline March, 15)
14/06/2023	14.00 - 16.00	Kleiner Rosensaal, Fürstengraben 27	Awarding meeting Teaching Award
07/09/2023	10.00 - 16.00	IBZ Humboldthaus, Charlottenstraße 23	Closed meeting of the ALe
25/10/2023	14.00 - 16.00	Senate Hall (UHG)	Awarding meeting (2 funding lines, application deadline September, 15)
21/11/2023	12.00 - 16.00	Rosensäle, Fürstengraben 27	DIES LEGENDI - Day of Teaching 2023

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).

Contact

Academy for Teaching Development - Office

Fürstengraben 1

07743 Jena

ale@uni-jena.de

Hüfner, Katja, Dr Managing Director Vizepräsidentin für Studium und Lehre: +49 3641 9-401210

Universitätshauptgebäude

Fürstengraben 1

07743 Jena

Vizepräsidentin für Studium und Lehre
Möhrstädt, Nora, Dr Project consulting and coordination Vizepräsidentin für Studium und Lehre: +49 3641 9-401211

Universitätshauptgebäude, Room 314

Fürstengraben 1

07743 Jena

Vizepräsidentin für Studium und Lehre