2022 Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Career development courses

Doctoral AcademicTeaching Practice C

Academic unit or major: Career development courses
Instructor(s): Hidekazu Tanaka / Noriyuki Kouchi / Yukari Kato / Kazuo Shinozaki
Class Format: Lecture/Exercise (Blended)
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms): Intensive
Class: C
Course Code: LAC.A631
Number of credits: 0.50.50
Course offered: 2022
Offered quarter: 3-4Q
Syllabus updated: Jul 10, 2025
Language: Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

As a training course 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.
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 T2SCHOLA.

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	November 18 (Fr.), 5-6 period, Zoom Practical lecture on teaching skills (Yukari Kato)
Class 2	November 18 (Fr.), 7 period, Zoom Introduction of Tokyo Tech, along with the latest statistics (Kazuo Shinozaki) How to do a mock lecture and select its theme (Noriyuki Kouchi and Hidekazu Tanaka)
Class 3	December 9 (Fr.), 5-8 period, Zoom Mock-lecture practice for high-school students (Noriyuki Kouchi and Hidekazu Tanaka)	Preparation of PPT files for the mock lecture.
Class 4	December 17 (Sat.), 13:30-16:00, Kichijo Girls' School Actual mock lecture at a high school (Noriyuki Kouchi, Kazuo Shinozaki, and Hidekazu Tanaka)
Class 5	January 20 (Fr.), 5-8 period, Zoom Mock lecture to university students (Noriyuki Kouchi and Hidekazu Tanaka)	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) Doctoral students cannot register for this course within six months after doctoral program enrollment.

Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).

iidpinfo[at]jim.titech.ac.jp
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Office hours

Weekday　9：00-17：00

Other

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