The “Basic Educator Competency Training” aims to reveal how developments in the higher education ecosystem are integrated into education and teaching policies and strategies; it also aims to familiarize faculty members with innovative approaches and techniques, encourage them to transfer this knowledge to their own teaching processes, and empower them to take on a leadership role in this transformation.

The target audience is all faculty members who have recently started or are likely to start teaching at our university.

Participants who complete the Basic Educator Competency Training (BECT) are expected to achieve the following learning objectives:

• Explain how teaching is shaped in higher education in the world and in Türkiye, its impact on teaching policies, and Hacettepe University’s approach in this context.
• Explain the basic components of the teaching ecosystem in higher education and their impact on teaching processes. Define the basic components of a course syllabus and understand the importance of the process of setting learning objectives.
• Recognize the basic learning characteristics of higher education students and explain effective communication and conflict prevention methods.
• By discussing the effects of active learning methods and technology use on learning, they can discover how these approaches can be used in teaching processes.
• By recognizing the impact of measurement and evaluation processes on teaching quality, they can explain the basic evaluation approaches that support student success.
• By recognizing the importance of continuous professional development for effective teaching, they can list the basic steps for individual development.

*The exam will be conducted in person at the Sustainable Teaching and Learning Center.

Structure
The training will be delivered in an asynchronous format via the Moodle platform.

Assessment
Both process- and results-oriented approaches will be prioritized in the assessment process; participants’ answers to questions throughout the training and their performance in the end-of-module exams will be taken into account.

Duration and Timing
This 12-hour training will be held at least four times a year, both during and outside of each staff period.

Content
The training consists of four lessons in total. The lesson content was developed through a detailed review of comprehensive, up-to-date, and reliable research and reports in the field of teaching competence, followed by careful discussion of these findings by education experts.