Excellence in Teaching and Learning are a joint task to which all members of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar contribute. You are all cordially invited to participate in the process.
What is a teaching mission statement?
The teaching mission statement defines fundamental values and goals for the (further) development of study programs. This is a direct link to the ‘STEP process 2030’and we would now like to take a further step together to expand on the vision and mission ideas from the STEP process.
What happened so far?
1) Kick-off workshop
On ‘ Day of Teaching and Learning 2024’, Vice President for Student & Academic Affairs Dr. Simon Frisch invited all status groups to a workshop to take part in the start of the participatory process for the ‘Teaching Mission Statement’.
2) Student survey
To gain the student perspective, students are invited to take part in a short survey on the topic: ‘What does good teaching and good learning mean to you?’: "Was bedeutet gute Lehre und gutes Lernen für dich?". Die Perspektive fließt in den Leitbildtext ein.
3) Development of a body text by the editorial group
The editorial group, consisting of three people from different status groups, writes an initial draft text in regular consultation with Dr Simon Frisch.
How can I get involved?
The writing group's draft text will be presented in various formats. We will inform you shortly about possible participation from winter semester 2024/25.
What is a teaching strategy?
The teaching strategy concretizes and supplements the objectives and measures for teaching and studies, which are intended to provide a guiding framework for the future design of teaching and study programs. The updating of the teaching strategy will be launched following the teaching mission statement process.
All interested parties are cordially invited to participate in the process of updating the teaching strategy.
Please contact the Vice President for Teaching and Learning, Dr. Simon Frisch.
A teaching mission statement and a teaching strategy are two different concepts: The starting point is the teaching mission statement, which defines fundamental values and goals for the (further) development of study programs. The teaching strategy then concretizes and supplements the objectives and measures for teaching and studies, which are intended to provide a guiding framework for the future design of teaching and the range of courses on offer.
The following steps were agreed in Framework Agreement V between the Thuringian state government and the state's universities (2021-2025) and the target and performance agreement between the TMWWDG and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2021-2025):
| 2024 | "Participatory Process with the aim of updating the teaching strategy" ZLV (2021-2025) |
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| 2025 | "Each university shall further develop its quality assurance system for the area of teaching and, if not already in place, create a mission statement for teaching so that the requirements for conversion to the instrument of system accreditation can be met by 2025." RvV (2021-2025) |
| 2025 | "Resolution of the Executive Board on the University's updated teaching strategy" ZLV (2021-2025) |