Teaching doctoral students: Best practices for modern education

This article presents a piloting of a comprehensive proposal for teach-ing the course Didactics of Higher Education, specifically designed and conducted at the Doctoral School at the University of Silesia. The course integrates best practices acquired by the authors during the project Masters of Didactics (MoD) and its advanced track – the Mas-ters of Didactics – Advanced Teaching Qualifications. The practices have been successfully adapted from renowned institutions, including Aarhus University (Denmark), Ghent University (Belgium) and Univer-sity College London (Great Britain). The proposal emphasizes the in-novative combination of pedagogical methods (i.e., team-based learn-ing (TBL), assessment and feedback and gamification), aiming to equip future educators with the skills necessary to excel in modern academic environments. By fostering a deep understanding of effective teaching methods, the course’s objective is to prepare doctoral students to be-come leaders in higher education attentive to diverse students’ needs, capable of enhancing learning outcomes and contributing to the ad-vancement of educational standards.