NOTICE:This course will be open in A semester.
This course (also called "The University of Tokyo Global Future Faculty Development Program" and represented with the acronym "UTokyo Global FFDP") aims to contribute to the educational development of future university teachers. Participants learn about teaching & learning methods and assessment strategies, how to enhance students’ active learning, how to design a syllabus and lessons with a learner-directed approach, and how to engage into the teaching profession maintaining an inclusive stance.
The course emphasizes the development of a critical and scholarly approach to the teaching profession, inviting the participants to learn through reflection, discussion, and learning by doing. The course is based on flipped classroom; participants watch short videos before the class and in class discuss, reflect, and practice with their peers.
UTokyo Global FFDP seeks to contribute to the training of future faculty members. To do so, it aims to:
Promote professional & educational reflection, discussion, and critical pedagogical thinking.
Contribute to the development of key educational & transversal competences to support learner-directed teaching-learning processes.
Nurture a scholarly, evidence-based, inclusive & ethical approach to teaching to educational research.
Provide learning by doing opportunities for a congruent educational development.
Support a cross-cultural & global approach to the academic profession and to teaching and learning.
Cultivate continuous development, lifelong learning, and community-building attitudes and opportunities.