2021 Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Career development courses
ALP Practice I (Teaching Practice) B
- Academic unit or major
- Career development courses
- Instructor(s)
- Hiroki Oura / Kazuo Shinozaki / Noriyuki Kouchi / Hirofumi Akagi
- Class Format
- Lecture/Exercise
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- B
- Course Code
- LAC.A631
- Number of credits
- 0.50.50
- Course offered
- 2021
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
As a training course of the Academic Leaders Program (ALP) primarily directed at D1 and D2 students, the students will learn best practices for teaching through attending a lecture by professors in teaching and doing mock lectures by themselves. Moreover, a model English lecture will be offered to improve the students' ability of teaching in English.
This training course mainly targets D1 and D2 students who have a career plan to pursue an academic position like a professor in the near future.
Course description and aims
The goal of this training course is that the students experience teaching best practices including mock lectures by themselves, and learn teaching skills through attending lectures by professors in teaching.
Keywords
Japanese mock lectures, Teaching skills, Educational guidance, Code of Ethics,
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
This training course consists of the following parts: The first one is to attend a lecture on teaching skills, a model lecture, and so on. The second one is two mock lectures by each doctoral student: One is to give a high-school students a lecture on the research being done by each student, and the other is to give university freshmen the lecture related to a basic science.
All the students will receive the information on Zoom URLs, can download instructors' lecture materials, and can upload your reports through OCW-i.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | 14：20-16：00, Tuesday, June 15, Zoom Practical lecture on teaching skills (Hiroki Oura) | |
| Class 2 | 16：15-17：05, Tuesday, June 15, Zoom Introduction of Tokyo Tech, along with the latest statistics (Kazuo Shinozaki) How to do a mock lecture and select its theme (Noriyuki Kouchi) | |
| Class 3 | 14：20-17：55, Tuesday, June 29, Zoom Mock-lecture practice to high-school students (Noriyuki Kouchi and Hirofumi Akagi) | Preparation of PPT files for the mock lecture. |
| Class 4 | 13：15-15：00, Friday, July 16 Actual mock lecture at a high school (Noriyuki Kouchi, Kazuo Shinozaki, and Hirofumi Akagi) | |
| Class 5 | 14：20-17：55, Tuesday, July 27, Zoom Mock lecture to university students (Noriyuki Kouchi and Hirofumi Akagi) | Preparation of PPT files for the mock lecture. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
None.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
None.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Two-times mock lectures
Related courses
- Other career courses
Prerequisites
1) International students can take this training course under a condition of having a Japanese-language ability at an N1 level in the Japanese language proficiency test (JLPT).
2) It is not possible to take the training course in duplicate.
3) As a general rule, each of doctoral students, who belongs to his/her doctoral course for less than six months, cannot register for this course.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
iidpinfo[at]jim.titech.ac.jp
(Indicate the name and affiliation)
Office hours
Weekday 9：00-17：00