Through the generosity of our donors, CERGE-EI Foundation in collaboration with CERGE-EI offers a faculty development course Teaching Principles and Practices to a small number of economics faculties at regional universities each year. This is a spin-off of the highly successful training program which all new CERGE-EI Foundation Teaching Fellows attend before they begin to teach under our auspices. 

The 5-day course comprises a series of seminars and workshops, grounded in current economics and education literature. The course introduces a range of effective approaches and methods to teaching and is delivered by pedagogical mentors from the Academic Skills Center at CERGE-EI. Participants learn to apply the principles into practice, and peer feedback is a key component. Participants who complete the course receive a certificate from CERGE-EI. 

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Program beneficiaries

 

Over 300 faculty members at these seven institutions have completed the program since its beginning in 2015:

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• Graduate School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University,  Yekaterinburg (Russia)

• Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg (Russia)

• International School of Economics (ISET), Tbilisi (Georgia)

• University of Economics (VŠE) Bratislava (Slovakia)

• University of Shkoder Luigi Gurakuqi, Shkoder (Albania)

• University of National and World Economy, Sofia (Bulgaria)​

• University of Prishtina, Prishtina (Kosovo)

Course content

 

• Teaching in today’s world

• Teaching in English

• Preparing courses & classes

• Teaching large classes 

• Observing teachers and giving feedback to peers

• Practice teaching and feedback

• Handling teaching & plagiarism

• Evaluating teachers, dealing with difficult students and classes

• Teaching Distance Courses

• Tips for Teaching Large Courses by Distance

• Interactive Teaching Tools

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If you are interested in learning more about the program, contact us at info@cerge-ei-foundation.org.

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