Teaching requires experimentation, research and continuous development: this is the message promoted by the TLlab for the Teacher Training project.
Politecnico di Torino is committed to training its faculty on different levels. At Politecnico, lecturers have the opportunity to undertake various training paths (basic, advanced and lifelong training). Internationally, our university participates in European programmes for research and development of university education such as the OECD programme and the Unite! Project.
The “Basic Higher Education Teaching Skills” project seeks to create a system that fosters higher education teacher training for all members of the teaching staff at Politecnico di Torino, starting from the most junior lecturers. The goal of the project is to foster a continuous process for the development of teaching skills.
The project builds on the assumption that the University clearly values the importance of teaching in its vision and mission in order to be able to provide good quality education.
The project seeks to implement activities that support the teaching staff and other academic bodies in charge of teaching (Collegi, degree programmes, Committees, working groups, etc). The project implements flexible activities that respond to the needs of the various stakeholders in order to work with them to develop teaching innovation solutions shared by the community.
During the project participants exchange their views. In particular, new teaching staff bring their research and teaching experience into the group and compare it with the experience of other new staff. Trainers build methodologies, strategies and techniques to facilitate the acquisition of new and different teaching skills straddling tradition and the transformations imposed by the contemporary culture of interconnected knowledge.
Learning to Teach: 40 hours
Registrations are now open for the 4th iteration of the “Learning to Teach (L2T)” course. March-May 2024
Deadline for application submission: 23 February
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"Mentoring with experienced lecturers" seeks to develop a community of experienced lecturers (mentors) who are able to boost the level of professional development of the teaching staff and to support individual lecturers, groups and bodies (degree programmes, Collegi) in the implementation of innovative teaching projects.
The teaching staff involved in the Mentoring project have previously acquired competencies through basic higher education teacher training and significant teaching experience in their own courses.
In order to become a mentor, training is provided with a specialised course and personal experimentation paths. Participants work towards their role of mentor through experiencing and sharing methods, tasks, values and tools for peer-to-peer training and reflecting together within a mentoring unit.
The training model is based on the Mentoring Polito Project (M2P), implemented as a pilot project in September 2021. The first iteration of the project is expected to be repeated for two years, building on the evaluation of the pilot project.
Mentoring Polito Project: 20 hours
Mentors:
- Valentina Agostini
- Michela Barosio
- Silvia Beltramo
- Federico Bosia
- Alberto Botter
- Daniele Botto
- Giulia Bruno
- Federico Caviggioli
- Davide Dalmazzo
- Manuela De Maddis
- Laura Farinetti
- Renato Ferrero
- Christian Maria Firrone
- Lorenzo Galante
- Luca Giaccone
- Maria Grazia Graziano
- Silvia Gron
- Elisa Guelpa
- Marzia Quaglio
- Diana Massai
- Tatiana Mazali
- Andrea Mazza
- Francesca Montagna
- Bartolomeo Montrucchio
- Davide Papurello
- Elisabetta Raguseo
- Alessandro Scattina
- Louena Shtrepi
- Fabrizio Valpreda
- Riccardo Vesipa
- Elena Vigliocco
In addition to our basic higher education teacher training programmes (L2T - Learning to Teach) and training of mentors (M2P - Mentoring Polito Project), the TLlab organizes Teaching Weeks, which provides continuous updating on current issues of academic education.
The Teaching Week is open to all members of the teaching staff as an official occasion for professional updating and sharing of ideas, with an eye to building a community of lecturers who work together and support each other for the purpose of education.
Lifelong training of our teaching staff continues beyond the Teaching Week. Lifelong training means the opportunity to get trained at any time of one’s academic life.This is among the objectives of the TLlab: informal advisory services are offered to the teaching staff, including English courses and English pronunciation courses specifically for the international classroom.
The 4th Teaching Week (Explorations in Teaching) is scheduled from 26th February to 1st March 2024. As in previous editions, there will be seminars, workshops and meetings to reflect on and discuss current experiences and new teaching methodologies thanks to the contribution of some of our colleagues as well as some external experts.
