1. Department of Science Education Welcome to the ToT-PhD-supervisor Course January 29th –February 1st, 2013 Arusha Jens Dolin and Robert Evans

2. Department of Science Education

3. Outline of course Department of Science Education This is part one of three parts: I Course 1, Arusha 29-01 – 01-02 2013 II Interim period III Course 2, 8-4 – 11-4 2013 Overall goal of the course I To establish the foundation for being an exellent PhD supervisor II to try out this foundation and to adapt it to your local institution III Based on these experineces, to design your own supervisor course

4. Learning objectives of today Department of Science Education Be able to engage in dialogue about your own experiences with supervision and reflect on others’ experiences Be aware of your own common supervision styles and how they can be adapted with the use of techniques and tools, based on your understanding of learning in research education Be aware of differences in institutional frameworks for supervision Be able to argue for connections between a constructivist learning theory and supervision

5. Pre-assignment: Institutional framework for supervision Department of Science Education Exercise: -Discuss in groups your answers to the questions in the three boxes marked with a star (page 24, 27, 31). -Make a sum up for the group -Mutual exchange of knowledge of institutional context

6. Personal experiences with supervision Department of Science Education Exercise: ‘success and challenges in supervision’ -Fill out worksheet individual (are collected afterwards) -Share stories of both success and challenges as a supervisor in the group -Produce group flip-over (or over-head transparencies or ppt slides) of the group’s challenges in supervision (first question) -Share group flip-overs