Continuing Education and Consultation about Accessible Teaching
Accessible University Teaching - Guidelines for Teachers
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Raising teachers' awareness of barriers and using ideas and tips to prevent or at least mitigate barriers - these are the concerns pursued by the Guidelines for Teachers at TU Dresden on Accessible University Teaching, which you can download as a PDF (in German).
Offers of the Centre for Continuing Education
In its recommendation "A University for Everyone", the German Rectors' Conference calls for "teachers to regard it as part of their teaching duties to systematically incorporate the special interests of students with disabilities and chronic diseases into their teaching and counselling". It is therefore important for the equal participation of students with disabilities and chronic illnesses that knowledge of these issues is available, especially among teachers, academic advisors and members of examination boards,
- which restrictions and problems the respective disability causes in everyday student life, especially in the courses?
- what opportunities do these students have to cope with their study tasks and what help and support do they need?
- what help can and must be provided by the university?
In cooperation with its partners at TU Dresden, the Centre for Continuing Education is happy to support its academic staff - and in particular the teaching staff at TU Dresden - with continuing education programmes that cover all aspects of university teaching.
The Centre for Continuing Education
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offers individual counselling on dealing with heterogeneity and other aspects of diversity in teaching and counselling,
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develops individual qualification offers for accessible university teaching for chairs / institutes / fields,
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plans to firmly anchor the topic, including university teaching, as a cross-sectional topic in its further training courses on university and media didactics.
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The Staff Unit Diversity Management is the coordination and networking unit for activities undertaken to improve equal opportunities at TU Dresden. Its work focuses on equal opportunities for women and men, family friendliness and the inclusion of people with disabilities.
- Representative for Students with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses
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Students can contact the Central Student Advisory Office if they have any questions regarding their studies or a disability.
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Students with disabilities can also seek advice from the Career Service of TU Dresden to help them make the transition from studying to working life.
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In order to support visually impaired students at TU Dresden, the Faculty of Computer Science has a working group called Study for the Blind and Visually Impaired (AG SBS).
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Emphasis on individual personal consultation:
the Interessengemeinschaft Studium und Behinderung (IGB) and
the Student Council of the TU Dresden and
the social counselling of the Studentenwerk Dresden
are contact points for students with disabilities or chronic illnesses.
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"A University for Everyone", Recommendation of the German Rectors' Conference for Students with Disabilities or Chronic Illnesses (2009)
Note: The Information and Counselling Centre for Studies and Disability (IBS) of the Deutsches Studentenwerk (German Student Union) has prepared a working aid for implementing (in German) the recommendation.
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Saxon University Freedom Act (Sächsisches Hochschulfreiheitsgesetz) with the statutory provisions in Saxony on compensating for disadvantages in studies and examinations
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Studying with disabilities and chronic diseases - Information and didactic advice for teachers (in German), published by the Information and Counselling Centre for Studies and Disability of the Deutsches Studentenwerk (German Student Union)
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Help and instructions for the creation of accessible PDF documents from WORD (in German)
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Help and instructions for the creation of accessible PDF documents from POWERPOINT (in German)
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