ZSKB tutor qualification
ZSKB tutor qualification
Tutors support teaching in all faculties at the University of Oldenburg and accompany students, especially in the first semesters of their studies.
With the ZSKB tutor qualification programme, we would like to prepare you for your role as a tutor and make it easier for you to start your new job. As part of the qualification, you can acquire extensive skills to organise tutorials in a way that promotes learning. You will reflect on your role as a student teacher and work specifically on transferring what you have learnt into practice.
The tutor qualification is organised twice a year.
The following courses offered in the summer semester are explicitly aimed at students who will be leading or accompanying a subject tutorial for the first time in the coming semester.
The qualification offered in the winter semester (held in the second half of September) is aimed at all tutors - regardless of whether they will be leading a tutorial for the first time or again.
Areas of expertise
The tutor qualification workshops teach you skills in the following areas:
Cross-faculty programmes
- Self-competence
Your role as a tutor - Social and communication skills
Communicate well and recognise, understand and moderate group processes - Methodological and didactic skills
Guiding learning processes in the group and motivating students to participate - Media and information skills
Using and communicating research techniques and media skills
Faculty-related programmes
- Content, methods and competences from a faculty-related perspective
Tutor qualification programme for the summer semester 2026
The following events are offered:
Holding tutorials... how does it actually work?
24.03.2026, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
How learning succeeds: Tips and tools for tutors
31.03.2026, 14:00 - 17:30
Registration in Stud.IP
Registration period: 06 - 19 March 2026
Registration takes place directly in Stud.IP. Enter the digits 70.03. in the search (magnifying glass symbol) and select winter semester 2025/2026.
Or call up the desired workshop from the programme overview above (via Registration).
Handouts for tutorial work
Notes on planning and conducting tutorials from the Rhineland Association for Tutor Qualification
Designing online tutorials
Methods for schools and educational work from the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb)
Co-operations
The tutor qualification is offered by the Central Student and Career Counselling Service (ZSKB) in co-operation with
- Library and Information System (BIS)
- Psychological Counselling Service (PBS)
- Department for Study Affairs - University Didactics
- Subject representatives from the participating Schools