Advice, support, qualification
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Advice and support in your everyday study life
There are always phases in your studies that present you with challenges: from the difficult settling-in period to exam times to the final semesters when final papers are due.
To help you successfully master the demands of your studies, you can get support from the following projects:
1) PASST?! Partnership · Success in Studies · TU Dresden
PASST?! is TU Dresden's Early-Warning System. Once signed up, it monitors your course of studies by checking it for warning signs about difficulties. It provides you with suitable advice and support at an early stage, that you can make use of, if wanted. It helps you to:
- prepare for exams effectively,
- develop convenient strategies for organizing your studies or
- deal with any doubts about your studies.
Website:
https://tud.de/deinstudienerfolg/pas
Contact:
2) Writing consultation
Are you planning or writing your seminar paper or final thesis? In the writing consultation, the writing peer tutors of the Writing Center support you in an individual meeting in your working and writing process or give you feedback on your text drafts. You can come to the writing consultation at any stage of your work - from brainstorming to the almost ready-to-submit text.
Further information & FAQ:
https://tu-dresden.de/.../schreibberatung
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Making Teachers Confident (MTC@TUD)
You are studying to become a teacher and want to successfully complete your studies? MTC@TUD supports you.
We organize different workshops and roundtable sessions in which you can exchange ideas with experts within and outside the university landscape. In addition, the tutors are available throughout your studies to answer any questions you may have about the organization of your studies.
Website:
https://tud.de/deinstudienerfolg/mtc
Kontakt:
Acquire key competencies, practice reading and writing skills
Key skills are indispensable not only for successful studies, but also for your professional career. And writing and reading skills are also essential during your studies and beyond. With our projects you can, for example, train learning techniques and time management and optimize your reading and writing processes when writing academic papers.
The following projects will support you with their offer:
Writing Centre of TU Dresden
Seminar papers, protocols, student research projects or theses - writing is part of every course of study. The Writing Center supports you on your way from finding ideas, reading relevant literature, building and revising your argumentation structure to the finished text:
The Writing Centre offers:
- student writing consultations
- workshops on writing academic texts and on academic language
- workshops on reading and working with scientific literature
- writing events
- tutorials & podcasts
Website:
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Center for Key Competencies
Learning strategies, exam preparation, presentation skills, time management, rhetoric... Key competencies help you to cope with your studies and make it easier for you to successfully start your internship or job. The Center for Key Competencies supports you from the first semester on with numerous workshops, podcasts and tutorials on various key competence topics.
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Tutoring programs
Would you like to help other students as a tutor? Then get trained as key competency tutor or a tutor for first-year teacher training students. A qualification program for tutors of all study courses is also open to you. Lecturers sometimes need support, too: If you are familiar with e-learning, you can help develop digital courses as an e-scout.
Take a look at the tutoring programs of the following projects:
The writing consultation and many other offers of the Writing Center are carried out by student employees who are qualified as writing peer tutors. Are you interested in working with us? Then write us an e-mail.
Key Competencies@TUD
As a key competency tutor, you support other students in (digital) workshops, podcasts and/or tutorials in the acquisition of key competencies. For this purpose, you will be trained by us free of charge in a didactic-methodical qualification and continuously accompanied during your work.
If you are interested in working as a tutor or have any questions, please contact us.
Website:
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Making Teachers Confident (MTC@TUD)
You are an experienced teacher training student and want to pass on your knowledge to your new fellow students in the first semester? Then become a tutor in the project MTC@TUD (Making Teachers Confident).
During a two-day training course, you will gain insight into your area of responsibility, learn about methods and techniques, and work out a plan for the tutorials (scientific work skills, exam preparation and career aspiration, methods workshop) together with the other tutors. You will receive a contract as a student assistant and you can have the tutoring work credited with 2 CP in the "Ergänzungsbereich".
Website:
https://tud.de/deinstudienerfolg/mtc
Contact:
TUTORING (TUT)
You want to know how to prepare for an online tutorial with arithmetic exercises? Or how to get more feedback from students?
Ask us – we are here to help you.
TutorING prepares you to be a tutor.
There are four modules which every tutor can join at any time during the academic year:
- Basics: basic didactic and methodological knowledge as well as key competencies
- Advanced Workshops: developing quick-wittedness as a tutor, time management before and in the tutorial, competence analysis, empathy and conflict management in the tutorial, voice and presence, leading arithmetic exercises and laboratory trainings
- Peer-Meetings: exchange knowledge with other tutors
- Coaching: individual support and backing during the qualification
Website:
https://tud.de/deinstudienerfolg/tut