How can teaching be rendered a safe space for everybody?
What defines good teaching practices at a university of the arts?
Which specific situations of teaching and learning exist at mdw?
How to critically reflect personal practices of teaching?

The web tool »Tricky Moments« provides ideas for reflection on different teaching and learning experiences at the University of Music and Performing Arts. It offers suggestions for reflection and action for diversity-conscious teaching and is designed to encourage you to develop and apply gender and diversity competence in your own teaching and learning practice.
The webtool »Tricky Moments« is a provision of mdw’s diversity strategy. Its development was overseen and realized by the Administrative Department of Equality, Gender and Diversity (GGD) and supported by mdw’s Working Group on Equal Opportunities (AKG).

 

Tricky moments

Teaching situations are embedded in societal and institutional structures and therefore affected by power relations. The seven tricky moments presented in the web tool (e.g. »Is my being like this relevant?« und »Pretty Eyes«) represent fictional teaching situations based on real experiences of teachers and students. They give you ideas for consciously perceiving and critically reflecting on your own teaching and learning situations.

 

Ideas to Act on

They incorporate firsthand experiences, practical instructions, checklists and links to recommended guidelines and collections of tools already available.

They invite you to..

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acquiring and imparting gender- and diversity-specific knowledge and thereby expanding one's own potential for action,

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reflect on one's own (unconscious) expectations,

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becoming aware of one's own role model effect as a teacher,

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to take into account hierarchical relationships and mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in university culture and teaching,

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as well as applying a wide range of options for designing lesson content and teaching settings.

 

To accompany the web tool, the GGD regularly develops various formats for imparting knowledge.