The teaching practice load for AY. 2024/2025 in case of the disciplines conducted by the Faculty of Chemistry (WCh), the Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics (WFTiMS), and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Ship Technology (WIMiO) has changed from 2024/2025. Please familiarize yourself with the updated tables.

As part of the doctoral school training programme, PhD students for the first two years are required to co-conduct didactic classes with first- or second- cycle students in a team with other teachers as a teaching assistant (passive teaching practice), and then in the 3rd and 4th year conduct classes independently as a teaching fellow (active teaching practice):

  • the amount of passive teaching practice (compulsory for 1st-2nd year) is max. 30 hours annually.
  • the amount of active teaching practice (compulsory for 3rd-4th years) is max. 60 hours annually.
  • PhD students, after mid-term evaluation, employed as an academic teacher at the Gdańsk University of Technology and teaching at the university, are exempt from active practice.

The exact dimension of teaching practice for a given discipline - in accordance with the school's regulations - is determined by the Dean of the faculty running the given discipline, however it cannot exceed the above mentioned limit resulting from the training program. 

In the case of entities co-running the school (IFFM and IHE), PhD students may be exempted from the teaching practice - a decision regarding this issue is taken by the head of the institute.

Classes within the teaching practice can be run either in Polish or in English - to be agreed with the person responsible for the course.

Confirmation / reports on the implementation of teaching practice PhD students make in report on research progress / PhD training in the Doctoral School (semestral report in the case of first-year PhD students, and annual report in the case of PhD students in higher training years). The report template is available in the tab >>> for download.

Completing this module of the training programme can be based on:

  • adding a PhD student to the participants of the course for first- or second- cycle students, which the PhD student was to co-lead and observe the method of conducting classes by the academic teacher,
  • preparing by the PhD student instructions for classes, instructional films or other didactic materials for classes that the PhD student was to co-conduct.

Teaching practice may be postponed to the next academic year only in exceptional circumstances, at the individual request of PhD student, accepted by the coordinator of a group of disciplines. The postponement of teaching practice means the necessity to complete the teaching practice in a double dimension in the next academic year (for a current year and for the previous year).