Format: Self-study course

Target group: Teaching staff

 

Encourage creativity and self-regulation in your students!

 

Being able to think mindfully and creatively is an essential skill for students. But how can you support your students to think more consciously and openly? This ILIAS self-study course introduces simple and pragmatic methods that instructors can use to foster creativity, metacognition, ambiguity tolerance and self-compassion in their students.

 

The self-study course includes 3 modules on the following content:

 

Module I: This is why mindful students are more creative

 

Most instructors want to foster their students' creativity – here's how they can succeed. 

 

- Introduction: Can mindfulness be a spark?

- Conditional language in teaching

 

Module 2: How mindfulness contributes to resilient motivation

 

Let's dive into the research and uncover more areas of application for mindfulness. 

 

- What is mindfulness? Two perspectives

- Motivating students with mindfulness?

- Coping with a complex world – thanks to mindfulness?

- Reflect with a learning diary

 

Module 3: How to successfully teach for mindfulness in any class

 

What can you implement in your teaching regardless of what kind of students are in the class? 

 

- How can I use learning journals in my course?

- Self-compassion sounds good, but how can I teach it?

- Are my students even ready for this?

- Your task: Lesson plan and reflection

 

You can access the self-study course "Teaching for Mindfulness (English version)" via the following link:
 

https://ilias.uni-konstanz.de/ilias.php?ref_id=1598677&cmdClass=ilrepositorygui&cmdNode=xb&baseClass=ilRepositoryGUI

 

(Via the magazine: Abteilung für Akademische und internationale Angelegenheiten – ASD Hochschuldidaktik – Selbstlernmodule - Teaching for Mindfulness (English version). You must be logged in with your university account to access the course).

 

 

 

 

 

Historian and Slavist, Systemic Coach; Personnel developer with a focus on postdocs with the Academic Staff Development unit at the University of Konstanz. Longstanding experience in science management, e.g. as managing director of the Humboldt Graduate School at the Humboldt Universität Berlin, as spokeswoman for the Network for Staff Development at Universities, as a coach and trainer for academic careers. Author of several career guides for postdocs. Member of the Coachingnetz Wissenschaft e.V. Certified success team leader after Barbara Sher, certified trainer for mindfulness in organizations (MIO). Work areas: career advancement for postdocs.