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Are you a professor, teaching assistant, or education professional looking to change the way you teach, modify your assessment methods, find new ways to motivate your students, revitalize your teaching practice, or receive support for an inspiring project? The PUNCh team is here to support and advise you on making pedagogical changes to your teaching and assessment practices. The goal? To inspire and support teachers in their innovative teaching approaches.
Our Offer
Throughout the academic year, we offer a variety of activities for teachers and teaching assistants.
Our Training Programs
Designed to enhance your teaching skills and help you adopt innovative and effective teaching methods, we offer two different programs:
- “Focus on University Teaching: Develop Your Teaching Skills as a Teaching Assistant or Instructor”
- “Teaching at the University of Namur: The Essentials”
Our Sessions
Whether you want to deepen your knowledge or discover new approaches, our interactive and hands-on sessions are here to support your professional development.
Personalized Support
Whether individually, as a team, or at the faculty level, discover our five personalized support options for tailored guidance on your teaching projects. Contact us! punch@unamur.be
Educational Innovation
Innovating in teaching can sometimes seem like a daunting task.
However, pedagogical innovation is defined in part by a given context: what has already been achieved in one course or program may be innovative for another course, another department, or another program. It becomes clear, then, that pedagogical innovation is within everyone’s reach.
Definition of pedagogical innovation according to Cros (2001) and Bédard (2009), based on the “Banquet of Inspiring Practices” (UNamur, 2023):
An innovation is pedagogical if it seeks to improve student learning in a context of interaction and interactivity. It stems from an intention and involves one or more creative and original actions in a given context aimed at bringing about a real and positive change or modification to something (a state, a situation, a practice, methods, or a way of operating), based on an assessment of inadequacy, unsuitability, or dissatisfaction with regard to the objectives to be achieved, the results, or working relationships. It is driven by one or more stakeholders and is implemented at a local or global level (course, program, curriculum, faculty, etc.).
Since its creation in 2014, the PUNCh team has supported pedagogical innovation within UNamur, notably through PUNCh projects.