Co-Teaching
Co-teaching enables doctoral researchers to gain teaching experience by collaborating with a lecturer and taking over a small teaching unit in one of his or her courses. The Teaching Centre is happy to take over the arrangement for you and offers accompanying introductory workshops on the basics of university teaching.
The basic idea is that you work closely with a lecturer and conduct a small teaching unit in one course (e.g. one or two sessions). This will enable you to gain teaching experience at university with the help of an experienced mentor, and to realise your own teaching ideas. Conversely, you will bring innovative research approaches and topics of the study of culture to undergraduate courses.
If you are interested in participating in the Co-Teaching-Programme, please contact the Teaching Centre by March 05 / September 05 and send us the following information:
- your department
- your dissertation project
- your supervisor
- a topic or field of research in which you would like to gain teaching experience
- your teaching language(s)
- 2-3 suggestions (or more) for concrete courses in which you would like to participate in a Co-Teaching
To do so, please look at the Vorlesungsverzeichnis, which will be available from March/September 1 onwards.
The Teaching Centre will take care of the 'matching' and establish the contact with the lecturer.
If you have already organized your own matching for a co-teaching in the upcoming term, you are also very welcome to register for the programme to provide an official framework for your experience and to receive a certificate in the end. To register, please send us the following information: working title of your dissertation; title, date and time of the seminar; name of the lecturer and department.
Co-Teaching Certificate: Successful participation in the Co-Teaching-Programme can be recognized with a certificate. To receive your certificate, please hand in a short report (approximately two pages) after the end of term by filling out the blank spaces and by answering the questions in the following document: Template Co-Teaching Report.
Please name your report as follows: Surname_First name_Co-Teaching Report_Semester.
Please note: Please only apply if you can make sure that you will be present preferably the whole semester. Please note that participation in co-teaching is only possible up to two times.
There will be two basic seminars at the GCSC, whose participation is recommended but voluntary:
- Monday, 20.04.2026, 2 pm - 6 pm, with Prof. Dr. Jan Alber: Designing a Course Syllabus
- Monday, 18.05.2026, 9 am - 1 pm, with Prof. Dr. Claudia Hattendorff: Designing a Course Session
We are looking forward to seeing you!
Contact: teaching.centre@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
