With its extensive range of workshops, counselling and support services the Centre for Continuing Education can offer a diverse portfolio that is tailored to your specific needs.  Offers concentrate on the following key points:

• Training programme »Starting successfully at TU Dresden«.  The continuing education and consultation programme »Starting successfully at TU Dresden« is designed to make it easier for you to get started with your diverse tasks. For this purpose, workshops and consultations are offered on didactics of higher education, media and writing, as well as in communication.
• Programme »Leading successfully at TU Dresden«. The advanced training and consulting programme »Leading successfully at TU Dresden« consists of a basic module as well as of supplementary workshops, and consulting and networking offers. In addition, you can participate in individual coachings and network with leaders of TU Dresden. The specification module includes advanced workshops on selected leadership topics, which can be attended according to your individual needs. The topics vary from semester to semester.

• Further training in higher education and media didactics. Our higher education and media didactics courses are designed to help you develop your individual teaching concept. Therefore, they take into account the respective teaching formats, any special conditions and the target group of the courses. In addition, workshops can be developed that meet your specific needs in the areas of teaching and learning. You can use these workshops to create your own teaching portfolio, which consists of your teaching philosophy, presentation of teaching practice and concepts, evaluations and further training. We are happy to advise you on creating your teaching portfolio. The portfolio also serves as a self-critical examination of your own teaching, and is therefore very well-suited as preparation for the tenure evaluation self-report.

  To prepare for the biennial teaching evaluation in a targeted manner, we recommend that you participate in a lecture shadowing session in which you will receive professional feedback by higher education didactics experts at the Centre for Continuing Education. Lecture shadowing includes a preparatory talk, a visit to one of your courses and a feedback discussion after the lecture.

  In addition to quantitative teaching evaluation, qualitative methods such as Teaching Analysis Polls can be used. Aim: The students’ feedback should be collected in order to identify further measures for the development of higher education and media didactics skills.

• Calm appearance, presentation and (intercultural) communication. To communicate research in an understandable way, to make teaching lively, to be convincing as a leader and in discussions – the ability to communicate in an understandable, effective and captivating manner is of great importance for your work. The workshop provides the basics on the topic of "Powerful appearance with words, voice and the body". The goal is to have a professional, sovereign and authentic appearance. The voice and body language are used to reinforce your own positive effect. Additionally, courses such as “Staying calm throughout university life” or “Stress competence and resilience at the university” are offered.

  These and many more workshops and counselling offers are carried out by external lecturers of the Centre for Continuing Education.