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Would you like to do something different, but you’re not actually trained to teach? It doesn’t mean you can’t change anyway. If you come to work for us, you don’t yet have to have your teaching qualification. We think the important thing is that you want your knowledge and expertise to make a difference in education. You can get your teaching qualification while you’re working for us. And if you don’t yet have your master’s degree, then we’ve got various master’s programmes you can follow too.
Lecturer and coach
Of course you’re here to pass your knowledge and expertise on to our students but you’ll do far more than just that. More than anything else, you are also a coach during this very special phase of these young (and older) adults. You help them become the best they can be. As a lecturer, you’ll not be facing your students, but you'll be next to them. You'll not tell them how things work but will teach them to look at things in different ways and challenge them to find things out for themselves.
Lecturer and entrepreneur
If you want to combine your teaching with another job or your own business, that’s great! It’s a way for you to pass on your valuable knowledge and keep your work life varied. Keeping one foot in the field means you’ll be able to enrich the education sector with the latest developments in your work. Even if you don’t yet have a teaching qualification, you can still come and share your knowledge with our students. After all, education and the professional world work pretty well together.
Lecturer and researcher
You can achieve more by working together than by working alone. Which is why we have research groups at NHL Stenden that bring together different fields. Researchers, lecturers, students and professional partners share their knowledge and expertise in the group, working together to develop applied knowledge on current issues in today’s society. Issues such as quality of life, the future of our regions, accelerated development in production and entrepreneurship, and the growth and challenges of the service industry. Together, we look at how things can be done differently.
Teaching qualification
If you start work as a lecturer, you get the extra subject of ‘how to be a teacher’ for free. You get to design and implement education and support and assess students. It’s been agreed at a national level that all lecturers at universities of applied sciences must have the basic teaching qualification, but you don’t need to have already gained the qualification when you start teaching for us. We offer the programme through our own MyAcademy so that you can get your qualification while you’re working.
Our educational concept, DBE
Studying with us is not restricted to lecture halls. We’d rather students found out what actually happens in practice, which is why we work with a challenging concept we call Design-Based Education. Students work in ateliers on questions posed by the professional field, develop prototypes, test them out and learn from their mistakes. They might do this for instance with a local municipality, a large company, or the medium or small-sized company down the road. You are the content expert, you guide the process, and you coach the students.
