Do you have a question about your teaching activities? We can think about it together, whether you want to make it easier for your students to learn, implement a new teaching scenario, embark on a teaching activity that (inspires) you ...

An example?

How to automate language placement tests and establish differentiated course paths for the year? F-X Fiévez, Natassia Schutz, Caroline Ceuppens, Guy Deville (ELV), Laurence Dumortier (TICE), Eric Willems (PUNCH).

The PUNCH unit is offering a training program spread over an entire academic year, Mission possible: develop my teaching skills as an assistant/teacher, aimed at assistants or teachers who have recently taken up their post and/or wish to deepen certain teaching skills:

• This training path takes place throughout the 2023-2024 academic year.

• Participation in and completion of activities* related to the set of 7 modules of 3h training grants you 3 credits of doctoral training. *Each module requires preparation on the 'TiceFormations' platform and a follow-up assignment to validate the final 3 credits.

• Each module can be followed up individually(without obtaining credits in this case)

A new module has been developed: "How can I get my students to work effectively in groups?".

Exchanges on pedagogical innovation at the University of Namur and elsewhere. Several times a semester, professors and/or assistants from various fields of study at UNamur and elsewhere informally present their pedagogical experiments.

The latest PUNCH session

L'esprit critique sur le fil...du mois d'avril PUNCH

The PUNCH team is offering two different sessions on the critical thinking thread during the month of April, between 12:45 and 1:45 pm. The three speakers proposed two different angles of approach to critical thinking in their teaching practices.

Le 23/04 - "Exploring critical thinking: some epistemological avenues" - Olivier Sartenaer

In what sense would critical thinking be linked to scientific culture? And above all, how can critical thinking and scientific culture be promoted in concert?

Perhaps surprisingly, philosophy (and epistemology in particular) can be a valuable resource in this respect. But you still have to want to seize it.

The fourth call for PUNCh projects is open!

The University of Namur supports and accompanies pedagogical innovations. More than 35 pedagogical initiatives have thus received financial support since 2013.

Are you an ace in your field and want to offer your students original, active or playful teaching methods to enhance learning? You need a little help to finalize your good idea, with the Cellule PUNCh present, to promote various pedagogical projects.

For the fourth time, we're launching a call for projects to support your pedagogical practices. By responding to this call, you offer yourself the opportunity to obtain funding to cover human resources expenses.

In practice

The maximum budget is €30,403.78 per project. The institution will be able to fund 5 projects, each enabling:

• The commitment of 0.2 FTE for two (2) years (€13,813.75 per year);

• €2,500 in operating costs.

  Dates:

• Limit for submitting a project: Tuesday April 30, 2024 at 11:59 pm

• Evaluation and pre-selection of projects: May 2 to May 13, 2024

• Selection of projects at the Education Council: Tuesday May 14, 2024

• Communication of selected projects: Monday May 20, 2024

• Start-up of selected projects: Mid-September 2024

How does the selection process work?

Projects will be analyzed by the PUNCH team and evaluated by the Education Council.

File selection criteria are:

• The project develops a new pedagogical practice for the targeted teaching unit;

• The project is produced over the next 2 years, and incorporates a strategy for perpetuation and integration of the practices within the entity, faculty, department (the project is developed to last over time, beyond the 2 years of implementation) ;

• The project has a link with service learning, through transversal themes such as "sustainable campus" and "development and identity" supported by the Univers 2025 strategic plan;

• The project calls on internal support and/or training offered by various departments (TICE, PUNCH, CIAP, SAVE, SERTIC...);

• The project is produced to benefit a maximum number of students concerned by this teaching unit;

• The project illustrates at least one of the 5 axes driven by PUNCH.

With a view to encouraging pedagogical change and improvement, we will favor projects that concern a teaching unit that has not yet received funding in previous PUNCH calls.