Main theme: Forms of vertical, horizontal and lateral learning transfer.
A total of eight modules and their lecturers were nominated for the teaching award.
| Teaching Award | Ph.D. Irene Heidt Department: Englisch und Englischdidaktik in der Primarstufe The BTU 2024 Teaching Award recognises the module ‘English Subfield’, which combines subject-specific and didactic fundamentals with practical and innovative teaching and learning formats. It specifically prepares teacher training students from different subjects for mixed-age teaching in grades 1 and 2 at primary schools in Brandenburg. The bilingual teaching format combines English with the content of a specific subject (e.g. maths or German), thus imparting linguistic, didactic, interdisciplinary and intercultural skills. The module qualifies students to create communicative and intercultural learning spaces for young people in their future careers and to act as cultural mediators in heterogeneous educational settings. BTU News | 14004 |
| Runner-Up-Certificate* | Marlene Kraske & Simone Schneider Midwifery Science Programme For successful mono- and interprofessional instruction, it is essential to focus on the students' level of knowledge, taking into account the general conditions. Practical instructors plan the instructional situation using the available materials, circumstances, etc., and base their choice of instructional method on the students' level of knowledge and the subject matter itself. During the module ‘Developing interprofessional care concepts in a social context’, they acquire pedagogical and didactic knowledge in order to design their teaching activities in a competence-oriented and methodologically diverse manner. This includes skills in objective performance measurement (oriented towards the competencies to be developed in the professional fields of activity), skills in reflection during and after the instruction situation, and also the design of learning location cooperation. In their role as practical instructors, they learn how to support learners in becoming ‘independent’ in their profession so that they are able to take responsibility for their own learning process. This also takes into account how to act in professionally challenging situations. Furthermore, the module's content promotes the personal and competence development (e.g. through project work, strengthening resilience, etc.) of the practical instructors themselves. Methods are learned, creatively trained and evaluated in a performance assessment (instruction situation). | 13547 |
| Runner-Up-Certificate* | Dr. Alexander Bremer & Erik Halm Department: Therapiewissenschaften I The ‘Professional Internship IV’ focuses on the targeted promotion of both technical and interdisciplinary skills among students. Based on a competence-oriented concept, it enables the systematic and individually adaptable development of physiotherapeutic skills. Students regularly reflect on their individual learning progress using 24 defined competencies that incorporate therapeutic actions as well as personal and social aspects. On this basis, they set personal development priorities and develop individual learning goals. These are visualised in practice-oriented videos in which students perform physiotherapy tasks with patients. The performances serve as a basis for structured feedback from fellow students, mentors, lecturers and, where applicable, practical instructors. This process is supported by the ‘Handbook of Physiotherapy Development’, which serves as a central tool for guiding reflection and self-assessment and structures development in line with international standards (World Physiotherapy, KNGF). Lecturers provide individual support and advice and encourage students to take responsibility for their own professional actions. This creates a learning cycle that goes beyond the existing DQR requirements and systematically supports continuous competence development during the course of study. | 12121 |
* The honourable runners-up certificates are awarded to young scientists who were nominated but did not win the TEACHING AWARD.
Main theme: Diversity-sensitive flexibilisation of studies.
A total of ten modules and their lecturers were nominated for the teaching award.
| Runner-Up-Certificate* | Gabriele Weineck, Marco Wurg & Prof. Dr. Juliane Noack Napoles Cross-institutional for Faculty 4 We enter spaces every day without always being aware of it. These spaces can be the physical outdoor and teaching spaces of our university, social spaces, living spaces or even virtual worlds. Sometimes spaces are also ‘lost’, mysterious or even disappeared. The module ‘Healthy and Social Spaces of the Future’ is dedicated to precisely this diversity of spaces. Lecturers from research, non-profit organisations and landscape planning accompany students within the interdisciplinary programme (FÜS) to understand spaces in an interdisciplinary way and to learn about the subject matter and methodology of the respective discipline. Each teaching day focuses on a different space and takes place at different learning locations in a varied and practical manner.t. | 13756 |
* The honourable runners-up certificates are awarded to young scientists who were nominated but did not win the TEACHING AWARD.
Main theme: Sustainability in studies and teaching
A total of ten applications were submitted for the teaching award, of which five modules and their lecturers were nominated.
| Teaching Award | Prof. Dr. Alexandra Retkowski & Heike Bartholomäus Department: Soziale Dienstleistungen für strukturschwache Regionen Zentrum für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung The module ‘Overcoming borders – learning from each other – structural change in border regions’ deals with the understanding of sustainability in the sense of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It is anchored in the German-Polish social work degree programme at the Jakub of Paradyż Academy in Gorzów and the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. In the winter semester 2022/23, the module was implemented in conjunction with the WISSEN FÜR ALLE (Knowledge for All) guest student programme at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Funding: 5.000 Euro BTU News | 13860 |
Main theme: Special commitment to teaching and learning processes, taking into account the heterogeneity of students under pandemic conditions, thereby creating new or expanded learning opportunities for students based on sound teaching principles.
| Teaching Award | Dr. Alexander Bremer & Erik Halm Department: Therapiewissenschaften I The ‘Career Seminar’ module ensures that knowledge is deepened through concrete practical application during the internship phase, i.e. by linking university and professional learning environments. Funding: 5.000 Euro BTU Mitteilungen | Video |
| Teaching Award | Prof. Dr. Annemarie Jost & Tobias Falke Department: Sozialpsychiatrie ‘Digital Skills for Life and Work’ began with a lecture series featuring BTU lecturers who addressed the topic of digitalisation in various disciplines in research and teaching. The lecture series was aimed at the general public outside the campus as well as students and lecturers. Students had the opportunity to take the module as part of their interdisciplinary studies (FÜS), which was conducted using the blended learning method. | 12028 |
| Teaching Digital Award 2019 | Florian Schimböck & Prof. Dr. Juliane Eichhorn Department: Pflegewissenschaft und klinische Pflege Nurse Journal Club The concept involves transferring the established tool of the ‘journal club’ to a virtual platform in order to overcome local and temporal restrictions and achieve higher participation among students. The project approach is to be implemented in collaboration with Kajaani University of Applied Science Finland. Funding: 3.500 Euro BTU News |