Looking back on more than 40 years as a teacher of English teacher and a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) scholar, one is grateful for the idea that Sabine Doff’s and Tim Giesler’s had in Bremen. They staged a lecture series on the insights that can be drawn for the future of foreign […]
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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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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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The teachers’ cultural knowledge of the learners’ lifeworlds is a linchpin of all pedagogical efforts in school education and its educational theoretical foundation. In condensed form this setting occurs in the established principle of learner orientation, but also in many other concepts such as that of differentiation, adaptivity, or individualized teaching and learning. Learner orientation […]
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The University of Wuppertal offers a long-standing PrimA (Praktikum im Ausland = school placement abroad) programme in teacher education. A lecture that was held on 21 January 2021 as part of the online lecture series Tea Time Thursday at the University of Cologne’s Centre for Teacher Education explores the rationale for and the effect of […]
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The findings in studies on distance learning in Germany during the Covid19 lockdown period that are available so far are rather shocking: learning has often been unstructured, inefficient and in no way comparable to what is expected from orderly teaching processes in classrooms. Admittedly, empirical studies like the most recent one by the ifo Institute […]
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The Corona virus has significantly changed our everyday life. Since 16 March 2020, regular classes as we know them no longer take place. Instead, the new directive was to make learning possible through various online options, which poses new challenges for teachers as well as students and their parents, and in a 5th grade in […]
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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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