Institutions should assure themselves of the competence of their teachers. They should apply fair and transparent processes for the recruitment and development of the staff.
Current Practice
Additional Supportive Material
Extract from the description of academic staff training and professional development:
’Training and professional development:
Professional development and ongoing learning is a natural part of university work. As is to be expected in a university, opportunities and forms of professional development are wide: in-house training, seminars, conferences and continuing education courses both in the university and outside, e-learning, sabbatical leave etc.
An ordinary academic staff member has the right to, once every five years, get a semester free of teaching duties (‘sabbatical’), during which their employment duties include their professional skills improvement, research and development or creative work. During the sabbatical, the employee is paid the basic salary agreed in the employment contract.
Most of the in-house trainings are deliverd in Estonian but there are some programs and events offered in English for International Staff and their Family Members as well. We also welcome our International Staff and their Family Members to to start or continue learning Estonian language! It is possible to attend English courses offered to UT teaching staff and researchers.
For Academic staff there are various opportunities to develop teaching skills, e.g. training, communities of practice and learning, development programmes, consulting. See the internal training calendar.
Teacher development is supported by academic developers and instructional designers in all UT faculties.’
https://ut.ee/en/content/application-documents-and-regulations-academic-staff
https://ut.ee/en/content/career-model-academic-staff
https://ut.ee/en/content/good-practice-teaching
Good practice