To what extent are university teachers' individual learning paths influenced by their teaching experience, motivation, and conceptions of teaching and learning through educational technology?

Leiden University has a strong tradition in language teaching, in various settings: for instance in the BA and MA language and culture programmes, area studies programmes, international studies, minors and electives. Currently, 20 different languages are taught throughout different institutes and pr…

Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching

Our teaching is characterised by individual attention for students, contact with diverse cultures and innovative teaching methods. Personal supervision and the binding study advice contribute to our success. Our teaching and research are closely interwoven.

Law

In a lot of research on education, general didactic principles are applied to a particular area of study. ‘But every field of study also has its own ways of thinking’, argues professor Fred Janssen. ‘If you can identify those ways of thinking, then you have a lot of indicators for how you can best organise…

SALTSWAT -- a project which combines the Spaces for Active Learning & Teaching and the Support wtih Active Teaching -- began in Mid-2019 and is running in pilot until the summer of 2020. The purpose of the project is to find answers to the question of how to systematically accelerate 'active teaching…

Humanities, Centre for Linguistics

How do secondary school teachers’ professional learning preferences relate to teaching experience and the school context?

The Programme Standards project sets out guidelines on how to structure the education offered at the Faculty of Humanities. The project aims to distribute the teaching effort in a transparent way and to organise the programmes so that the best possible teaching can be provided in an efficient manner,…

Didactics

Empowering education professionals in their continuous professional development is fundamental to our mission. We understand that a teacher’s didactic skills are as essential as their subject knowledge in delivering impactful education. To support this, we offer a broad range of training and coaching…

Research combining a conceptual and practical perspective within the field of teaching and learning second languages.

Doctors are expected to apply recent insights from research to improve patient care. This is one of the reasons for integrating research into medical education.

Didactics

The VVI courses form part of the wider teaching programme of the Leiden Law School, which offers programmes both at the undergraduate (LLB) and graduate level (LLM, Advanced Studies, PhD). The Institute offers a MSc programme Law and Society: Governance and Global Development which is unique in Europe.…

Teaching Legal History

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of the Faculty of Science and Leiden University College with four universities in Nigeria.

What practical knowledge do mentor teachers have of adaptive mentoring and of individual differences between student teachers?

How can teachers best learn from each other and develop? Jacobiene Meirink is conducting research on professional development for teachers in secondary education. She is particularly interested in how teachers collaborate on and learn from the development of teaching programmes. More insight into effective…

You are about to start your Master's programme in MSc. Public Administration at Leiden University in The Hague, The Netherlands. Make sure you are well prepared and get your studies off to a good start.

The university and faculty regularly offer training courses in the field of Diversity & Inclusion. View an overview of the current training courses here.

The aim of this research is to gain insight into the approaches of learning to teach. Teacher learning processes, feedback in novice-expert interaction and the impact of the interaction are explored.

Music profession requires strong reflective, collaborative, creative and improvisational skills, yet prevailing one-to-one tuition in conservatoire education focuses mainly on transmission of craft skills. Examining effects of students' collaborative and experiential learning, as in learning labs, creates…

How can teachers be motivated by their students’ data in making stepwise changes to their teaching practices?

How do teachers conceptualise, develop and implement an effective CLIL practice?

This project focuses on vocational teachers’ professional development in work placement. Teachers’ learning motivation, learning experience and learning outcomes within work placement will be explored in depth.

The Department of Bachelor's Education staffs the workgroup education and safeguards the quality of the teaching of the workgroup education in the bachelor's programme in psychology.

Honours College is a multidisciplinary programme that is taught to small groups of undergraduates who are willing and able to achieve more. One of its focal points is teaching innovation. Innovative topics and working methods are thus an integral part of the Honours programmes and classes.

This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of the Faculty of Humanities with the Ivane Javakhishvili State University (TSU) in Tbilisi.

The Biology and Education specialisation consists of 120 European Credit Transfer System (EC) points and consists of a Biology component (60 EC) and an education component (60 EC).

The Mathematics and Education specialisation consists of 120 European Credit Transfer System points (EC) and consists of a Mathematics component (60 EC) and an Education component (60 EC).

The BPS and Education specialisation consists of 120 European Credit Transfer System (EC) points and consists of a BPS component (60 EC) and an education component (60 EC).

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Governance and Global Affairs, Institute of Security and Global Affairs

The research group War, Peace and Justice brings together scholars, researchers as well as current and former practitioners to explore issues related to the drivers, nature and (new) dynamics of war and conflict, comprehensive approaches to the promotion of sustainable peace, and the role of justice…

How to make educational innovations practical for teachers

Humanities, Centre for the Arts in Society

Humanities, Institute for History