Support for Teaching - Learning Services at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Learning services arranges regular orientations for the new teachers.
This section includes important information concerning your employment contract and beginning of employment.
Salary payment: Paydays in Aalto University are on the 15th and the last day of every month. For hourly-paid teachers the payday is usually the last day of each month, but the contract approval day may affect the payday of the first salary. The salary for hourly-paid teachers is divided into equal installments which are paid monthly for the duration of the employment contract.
Benefits:
Occupational health care services are at your disposal during your employment, more information can be found here.
Other benefits can be found here. Unfortunately not all benefits are available for hourly-paid employees at the moment, but in this case you will find the mention on the page (e.g. requires an Aalto ID card).
Absences: Please report the days of illness to both the teacher in charge and the HR Generalists ([email protected]). A medical certificate is required for sick leave exceeding three days. Meet any other absences with the teacher in charge.
Payslip: Payslips will be sent electronically for everyone with a Finnish bank account and by post for everyone with an international bank account. More information concerning the payslip and online pay can be found here. If you need a more specified payslip eg. for unemployment reasons, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]
Employment certificate: If you need an employment certificate, please send a request to [email protected] at the end of your employment.
Equality and diversity at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Aalto University is committed to promoting diversity, equality and non-discrimination in all its activities. We aim to provide a non-discriminatory, gender-equal and accessible environment in which employees and students with diverse backgrounds and duties receive equal treatment and are free to participate without discrimination in university activities.
Students have right to get teaching which is based on curriculum, course description and syllabus.
This section includes the most important points about teaching in the perspective of the hourly-based teacher.
Taking care of accepting/rejecting course registrations in Sisu is the responsibility of the teacher in charge. Information about the accepted students will proceed to MyCourses, so make sure that you have access to MyCourses' pages of your course. Another option is to ask the list of approved participants.
Registration for the exams: Starts 60 days before the exam, ends 7 days before the exam.
To see your course in MyCourses, you need to get rights for the course in Oodi. During the curriculum design period, this is the responsibility of the study coordinator. During the academic year teacher in charge takes care of this.
Studies have shown that learning is most effective when students actively produce and process information. Similarly, the most ineffective learning is the passive reception of knowledge and learning by rote. The recommendation is to make use of pedagogics that activates students, for example, lecture diaries, group work, studies, or tasks which combine theory and practice.
You can utilise the "Get inspired! A guide to successful teaching" to support the design and implementation of the teaching.
Aalto offers pedagogical training, explore opportunities.
Following attendance:
It is recommended that the requirements for attendance and course completion is described as precisely as possible in the course description or syllabus. When the principles are clearly outlined, the teacher can rely on these if he wants the student to prove the absence of a medical certificate or reject the course based on absences. Describing this information is the responsibility of the teacher in charge, and the instructor follows the attendance.
It can be defined in the course description if the courses have an 80% attendance requirement, for example, or if a breach of attendance leads directly to the rejection of the course. You can describe in the course description or syllabus when the student is considered to have left the course and the performance has been rejected.
If the presence requirement or percentage is not defined, the amount of student attendance should not affect the pass or grade. The course grade is determined by how the student has achieved the set learning outcomes.
In principle, the teacher is not obliged to carry out additional tasks to compensate for absences. Students will find out the tasks they have done on the course during their absence (for example, from MyCourses or classmates). In the case of long sick leave, the teacher may ask for a medical certificate (if the attendance is compulsory). If the student's absence from sick leave is prolonged, the teacher must be consulted.
You have several options to learn more about teaching at Aalto ARTS:
Learning services arranges regular orientations for the new teachers.