Discussion about Development in the Faculties

project leader Dr. Johannes U. Beck

Image: J. Immanuel Beck

The process of developing a continuous, cross-status group discourse on teaching at the Faculty of Theology, which began with the 1st Teaching Discourse Day, will be continued and consolidated with the 2nd Teaching Discourse Day. The previous forum served as an introduction to the "Principles of Good Teaching" (Teaching Strategy 2025) and the faculty-related "Quality Characteristics of Teaching". The Discourse Day aims to develop strategies and show how characteristics and principles can be integrated into everyday teaching and implemented within the framework of good teaching practice. In the process, impulses are not only presented and discussed in plenary and world café, but concrete proposals are developed, collected and adopted in a participatory manner. In order to be able to use the results for the follow-up process in an easily accessible way, they are recorded graphically. The format thus also serves the long-term implementation of the "Principles of Good Teaching" within teaching at the Faculty of Theology.

project leader: Dr. Caroline Klingner and Dr. Denise Schaller

Image: Dr. Caroline Klingner

The "Future Workshop on Problem-Oriented Learning (POL)" is intended to provide an exchange forum for teachers and students on the further development of this event format, which is frequently used in medical studies. The main focus is on the question of whether and how POL can remain as a teaching format in the digital space or to what extent a return to classroom teaching makes sense. The advantages and disadvantages of the format in the classroom and in the digital space will be discussed, taking into account student groups with special needs (students with small children, caring family members, physical impairments, etc.), and concrete approaches to improving the format on a methodological, group dynamic and organisational level will be developed together with the students.

project leader Dr. Johannes U. Beck

Image: J. Immanuel Beck

The Faculty of Theology held its first "Teaching Discourse Day" in June 2022 in order to establish a discourse on quality features of teaching at the faculty. The Discourse Day serves the dialogue of all status groups about the "Principles of Good Teaching" (Teaching Strategy 2025) and the faculty-related quality features of teaching. In addition to short impulses and dialogue formats, specific topics such as digitality or the goals of the study of theology were also discussed in a moderated world café against the background.
The respective teaching and learning experiences of the participants were discussed and striking insights were recorded. The insights gained from this were and will be further used for teaching development. The central contents of the discourse day as a whole were also recorded graphically. The resulting posters are presented centrally in the faculty and continually stimulate new discourse in courses and committees. In the long term, a "Discourse Day on Teaching" is to take place approximately annually.

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Project leader: Prof. Dr Volker Jänich

Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)

The University’s Faculty of Law will hold a one-day closed conference on the topic of ensuring academic success through a modernization of education in the areas of specialization at the Augustinerkloster Erfurt in early September 2019. Law faculties nationwide are complaining about a decline in the number of graduates. Hardly imaginable for many, there is a threat of a shortage of lawyers. A working group at state level, with the help of an expert opinion from the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW), has been searching for the causes of students dropping out. It is striking that students only drop out very late in their studies (on average after 7 semesters, i.e. after the intermediate examination). At the planned closed conference, the Faculty of Law wants to look for ways to make the education in the areas of specialization, which takes place in the critical study phase, more attractive in order to reduce the dropout rate.

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Project leader: PD Dr Ulrich Wedding

One of the tasks of the Faculty of Medicine is to train future doctors. Communication is an essential tool in the work of a doctor. Teaching future doctors communication skills during their studies at the Medical Faculty of Jena University Hospital and testing them is therefore an essential task of medical teaching. The Master Plan Medical Studies 2020, the National Longitudinal Model Curriculum Communication, the draft bill of the new version of the Medical Licensing Regulations (ÄApprO) and National Competence-Based Learning Objectives Catalogue Medicine (NKLM) of the Medical Faculty Association (MFT) and the Subject Catalogue (GK) emphasise the importance of teaching professional communicative competence in medical studies and the necessity of a longitudinal curriculum. The funding within the framework of the development dialogue has helped to initiate the necessary process in the Faculty of Medicine.

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Project leader: Claudia Ehlers

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The Faculty of Medicine would like to develop the teaching offers in the field of medical didactics according to the guidelines of the Medical Didactics Network of Germany. For this, it is necessary to reach a consensus within the faculty. All teachers should be well prepared for their teaching - this includes basic university and medical didactics training. The main focus of the training programme should be on post-doctoral training. In addition, further courses in medical didactics should be offered, e.g. for new teachers at the Jena University Hospital, training in special teaching/examination formats, but also more advanced qualifications (Medical Didactic Qualifications MQ1/MQ2). Cooperation with the Service Centre for Higher Education Didactics (LehreLernen) will be further intensified.

In order to plan a consented ‘JeMid’, the Faculty of Medicine would like to enter into dialogue with its lecturers and involve external speakers. A planning meeting for a one-day workshop is being prepared. A concept presentation in the Commission for Teaching and Studies as well as adoption in the faculty council is being sought.

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