Teaching & Curriculum Development
What we teach at ETH:
How we teach at ETH:
DownloadCompliance Guide (PDF, 600 KB) - Review the short 2-page overview on teaching at ETH to learn about:
- Designing and holding lectures
- Performance assessments
- Teaching evaluations
- Advice on day-to-day business
- Lecturers' responsibilities
Guidelines for lecturers - for the ETH teaching cadre (professors, adjunct professors, guest lecturers)
This portal covers topics such as:
- Education philosophy
- Policies - related to methodological competences, disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge and system-oriented ways of thinking
- Figures - learn how ETH has nearly doubled in size since 2000 along with other statistics
- Study programmes
- Quality management
- Development
- Innovation
- Innovedum - finance initiatives for innovative teaching
- Awards for the teaching cadre
DownloadFaculty Handbook - This piece describes the appointment procedures for professors at ETH and provides some background regarding ETH's process from the last few decades.
Lecturer's Conference (KdL) - composed of the 6 members of the General Conference of the Teaching Cadre, a representative from each department, and the Rector.
The University Assembly - comprised of members of the aforementioned groups.
The Educational Development & Technology Centre (LET) fosters and develops excellent teaching at ETH Zurich, and offers the following services to the teaching cadre:
- Guidance: Coaching and support for teaching
- Didactic continuing education: Programmes at all levels (with courses for professors, but also for teaching assistants)
- Examinations: From basic to online
- Curriculum development: (Re-)Design of degree programmes and continuing education programmes
- Educational development documents comprises a range of introductory texts, handouts, checklists and short descriptive texts for downloading
- Golden Owl
The Golden Owl award is a student prize for ETH Zurich teaching staff. - Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching (Kite Award)
The Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching is endowed by the Credit Suisse Foundation and includes prize money of CHF 10,000.
List of educational developers by department
Refresh Teaching - Practise-oriented events during lunch where ETH lecturers and staff can share new approaches to increase student learning