Paedagogium












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            The Centre for Pedagogical Skills - Paedagogium was established in 2018 as a coordination 

            promote the enhancement of teaching skills at Charles University.
            The main impetus for the enhancement of pedagogical skills came from:
            • the current trend at a number of prestigious foreign universities,

            • the positive experience gained in similar shorter programmes run by the Rectorate of Cha
              and individual faculties,
            • recurring signs of interest on the part of academic staff and doctoral students,

            • requirements to assess the quality of educational activity,
            • growing demands for systematic support of professional development of university staff, 

            The Centre for Pedagogical Skills - Paedagogium reflects the transformations in tertiary e
            recent decades when the context of higher education has changed. The examples include the 
            massification to universalisation, the Bologna Process, internationalisation, technologica

            including didactic technologies, and others. What is being reflected is also the changing 
            population due to demographic developments, the propagation of distance education and the 
            trend. Last but not least, the Centre also reflects the new demands placed upon university

            The Idea: to enable Charles University academic staff (and also those acquiring qualificat
            University for their academic careers) to maximise and utilise the professional potential 
            education teacher; to provide a new perspective on the professional qualities of an academ

            from double-trackedness to double-singleness.
            The Aim: to co-create a platform for the transfer and sharing of both theoretical knowledg
            skills and of experience in the field of higher education pedagogics. The Pedagogical Skil

            Programme has been designed for new as well as experienced academic staff who wish to impr
            didactic and pedagogico-psychological competencies.
            The Principles:

            1. Openness to innovation and new trends; openness to new topics, lecturers and other coll

            2. Evidence-based approach to tertiary pedagogics.


            3. Regard for the needs, possibilities and experience of a heterogenous target group; inte
            cooperation.