Acquiring and Expanding Teaching Skills
Whether you already have extensive teaching experience or would like to take your first steps in this field, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences offers you a range of opportunities to gain valuable teaching experience and hone your didactic skills.
Gaining teaching experience is an important step on the path to becoming a professor at a university of applied sciences (UAS) and is one of the recruitment requirements for a professorship. For more information on the career path to a Professorship at a UAS, please visit the website My Path to a Professorship at a UAS.
Teaching assignments at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
Our innovative teaching mentoring program Try it! Lehre was developed as part of the CarLa project specifically for those interested in teaching. This program gives you the opportunity to get a taste of teaching and to gain your first teaching experience – with no strings attached. Our dedicated teaching mentors are on hand to give you the best possible support. For more information, visit: Try it! Lehre.
To make it easier for you to access teaching assignments, we are now offering you the opportunity to submit an unsolicited application for a teaching assignment. As a teaching assistant, you will be responsible for the preparation and follow-up of your course as well as the preparation, correction and grading of examinations. Initial teaching experience is therefore necessary. The course is therefore primarily aimed at people who would like to further develop their teaching skills. You can find all information on the subject of teaching assignments on our website The Path to Getting a Teaching Assignment. If you would like to take your first steps in the field of teaching, our teaching mentoring program Try it! Lehre is the right offer for you.
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences also offers special programs for lecturers and other teaching staff at the university as part of its interdisciplinary and higher education didactics professional development program. These programs are a great way for you to improve your didactic skills and develop your teaching personality. For more information about the options available, visit the Staff Development page.
Diversity in the awarding of teaching assignments
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences is committed to the equal participation of all people and values the diversity that comes from different life paths and perspectives. By enriching the academic environment with diversity, we aim to contribute to inclusive education and a better society.