Quality Assurance Team

Work of the Quality Assurance in Education Team – Winter Semester 2022/2023 | Read

RESOLUTION NO. 5 OF THE CENTRE FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING COUNCIL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW

regarding the approval of the composition of the Quality Assurance Team at the Centre for Foreign Language Teaching in the academic year 2021/2022 | view

Activities of ZZJK in the 2024/2025 Academic Year

ZZJK Meeting on December 4, 2024

During the ZZJK meeting, the following topics were discussed:

  1. CNJO Representatives in the University Team for the Implementation of UW Strategy
  2. Class Observations
  3. Internal System for Quality Assurance in Education
  4. Training Sessions

1. CNJO Representatives in the University Team for the Implementation of UW Strategy

Dr. Andrzej Dąbrowski, Director of CNJO, presented to ZZJK members the key areas of UW’s strategy implementation for the coming academic years. Planned actions will focus on building external partnerships and the internationalization of the University. This will be facilitated through collaboration with companies and foreign universities in terms of experience exchange and course offerings.

As part of the implementation process, faculties and all-university units were asked to delegate representatives to the university team responsible for executing UW’s strategy.

The director encouraged CNJO staff to participate in these initiatives. After presenting an initial proposal and receiving feedback from the suggested candidates, Dr. Sławomir Maskiewicz and Dr. Sylwia Kossakowska-Pisarek were officially appointed to the university team.

ZZJK members were also asked to submit proposals regarding the implementation of UW’s strategy from the perspective of the Centre for Foreign Language Teaching (CNJO) by December 15, 2024.

2. Class Observations

Dr. Anna Cegiełka, Chair of ZZJK, discussed the class observation plan, which was shared with ZZJK members via email on November 18, 2024.

For the 2024/2025 academic year, eight faculty members are scheduled for observations, with a significant number involving cross-team evaluations. The Chair reminded attendees about the procedures for notifying faculty about upcoming observations and the guidelines for providing feedback afterward.

Class observations organized by ZZJK are scheduled to take place during the winter semester of 2024/2025.

3. Internal System for Quality Assurance in Education

The Chair of ZZJK emphasized the need to update the Internal System for Quality Assurance in Education, which serves as the foundation for quality improvement initiatives within CNJO.

The work on updating this document is planned for the summer semester of 2024/2025.

4. Training Sessions

During the meeting, several initiatives were proposed concerning training opportunities for CNJO staff, as well as workshops on the new format of the certification exam.

  • Neurodidactics and Psychological Support in Teaching

    • Magdalena Ziółek-Wojnar proposed training sessions focused on neurodidactics and psychological support in the teaching process.

  • Workshops on New Certification Exam Formats

    • Dr. Sylwia Kossakowska-Pisarek suggested a workshop introducing UW students to the new certification exam format for Legal English.
    • The Director of UW also mentioned a similar initiative proposed by Klara Małowiecka regarding the certification exam for Business English.

Meeting of the Quality Assurance Team for Education – January 11th, 2023

Arrangements and planned actions:

  1. Presentation of the most interesting techniques observed during the observation at the general meeting of the SzJO staff (beginning of the winter semester 2023/2024).
  2. Collection of employee feedback on the student survey (by March 1st, 2023); Planned meeting: PEJK, SzJO Management, Coordinator of the University Council for the Coordination of Foreign Language Teaching and Language Proficiency Certification to discuss the issues raised.
  3. SzJO website – designing a new version of the SzJO website; Introducing materials in the improved version; Planned meetings with the IT specialist, website administrator, SzJO directors, and the team that reviewed the website; Proposal to create a guidebook for students.
  4. Facebook – proposal to post information about SzJO activities on Facebook.
  5. Quality assurance system actions (link to the presentation):
    • creation of a database of attractive courses recommended by SzJO staff;
    • updating the achievement spreadsheet;
    • coaching program (introduction of employees to coaching principles – training), creation of a coaching database (lecturers who have specific skills), coaching coordinator;
    • promoting the achievements of employees (lecturers with the highest achievements rewarded with e.g. financing of training).

Meeting of the Quality Assurance Team for Education – February 8th, 2023

Presentation and discussion of procedures for handling low teaching performance or low organizational engagement of employees (link to the presentation).

Meeting of the Quality Assurance Team – October 26th, 2022

During the meeting of the Quality Assurance Team on October 26th, 2022, a discussion was held based on the opinions of QAT members regarding the mode of conducting classroom observations in the Centre for Foreign Language Teaching, gathered by the QAT Chairperson from June to September 2022. The decisions made during the QAT meeting were included in DIRECTIVE NO. 5 OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW of November 14th, 2022.

In addition, the following directions of QAT actions were established for the academic year 2022/2023:

  • A QAT subgroup consisting of Sylwia Kossakowska-Pisarek, Anna Mickiewicz, and Justyna Deczewska will undertake the development of a system of pro-quality actions in the Centre for Foreign Language Teaching.
  • A QAT subgroup consisting of Magdalena Ziółek-Wojnar, Arkadiusz Misiak, and Katarzyna Wiśniewska-Szaran will prepare procedures for working with language instructors whose classes are not rated positively.
  • A QAT subgroup consisting of Paweł Mrowiec, Bożena Karczewska, and Małgorzata Maras, in cooperation with Bartosz Jurczak and with the support of the SzJO directors, will verify and update information posted on the Centre’s website.

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