Using a course handbook in your teaching makes it easy for you as a teacher to plan each teaching session. The course handbook states the time, activities and learning outcome of each teaching session, which creates an overview of the course.
A structured plan of individual teaching sessions creates an overview of your teaching activities. It helps you consider if you activate the students enough and include enough variation in your teaching activities. It also provides a quick and easy overview as to whether students achieve the learning outcome stipulated in the academic regulations, and whether the academic progression is well structured.
You as a teacher must start by drawing up a semester plan including the overall topics and objectives of the course.
Then you must prepare a course handbook describing each individual teaching session. For this work you may use this template.
Insert times, activities and learning outcome etc. in the first boxes of the template.
In your teaching, begin by introducing the plan for the current session as well as the reasons why the activities you have planned are relevant for the learning outcome of the session. This will explain to the students the framework set for your teaching, enabling them to understand the overall objective of the session.
Towards the end of a session you may initiate a dialogue with the students, asking them what they did not understand or what worked well or not so well in the session. This will help you adjust your future teaching and enable you to follow up on the issues in your next teaching session.
