Category - Current Research

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Talent development and lesson development with complex tasks
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Lesson development and school development
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Science – Practice – Research
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Life under Corona as a complex task
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Digital distance learning with complex tasks
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Learning in the cloud
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Learning with the complex competence task
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“Excellence in School Education”: regional kick-off conferences

Talent development and lesson development with complex tasks

Since the national research network “Leistung macht Schule” (“Excellence in School Education”) started its work in 2018, we have been working with teams of English teachers (English as a Foreign Language, EFL) at 18 schools in the English subproject. With them, we are testing whether and in what way complex tasks can serve to identify, […]

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Lesson development and school development

It is a very encouraging experience in the research network “Leistung macht Schule” (Excellence in School Education) that many schools in the English as a Foreign Language project and in other subprojects are not confined to the comparatively narrow framework of individual research and development projects. Rather, they simultaneously intend to develop their whole school […]

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Science – Practice – Research

The German national research project “Leistung macht Schule” (LemaS – Excellence in School Education) has set itself the goal of researching ways of recognizing learners’ talents and promoting them that are new in many respects. This is not least because it goes beyond traditional concepts and methods of educating the gifted (including diagnostics and various […]

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Digital distance learning with complex tasks

Learning at a distance requires a way of learning that does not rely on permanent pedagogical control, small-step instruction and control and constant reassurance. Instead, students must learn to organise their work and learning processes with a high degree of independence, activating all the abilities and competences available to them Distance learning with tasks However, […]

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Learning with the complex competence task

Exciting ways of learning with the competence task Task-based learning has long been established in the field of foreign language learning – in a sense. However, it still competes with textbook-based instruction and, above all, with the curricular specifications and frameworks: comparative tests, official exam tasks, and the limitations of skills-orientation. The competence task shows […]

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“Excellence in School Education”: regional kick-off conferences

Currently, there is a series of regional official kick-off events of the Research Cluster “Excellence in School Education” (LemaS, ‘Leistung macht Schuule’) and the Project Schools in collaboration with the Ministries of Education in all of the Federal States of Germany. These regional meetings are the first opportunity for the researchers of the project and […]

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