Transcript Folie 1 - BBS

Good morning from the
German team!
That`s us
Berufsbildende Schulen des Landkreises Nienburg
Location
Northern Germany
Lower Saxony
50 km north of Hanover
150 km southwest of Hamburg
Local town
Nienburg
32,000 inhabitants
Glass and chemical industry
Rural environment
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Our School
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3,300 students
200 teachers
10 administration staff
2 social workers
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Full-time courses (five days a week)
Part-time courses (one or two days a week)
40 school types
50 courses of professional training
school leaving certificates on different levels
Our School
Departments
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Business & Administration, Health Care
Mechanics and Automotive
Electrical Engineering
Construction Technology (building, wood processing, painting)
Social Care, Body Care
Agriculture, Nutrition, Domestic Science
Sixth Form College (providing access to university)
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Our representatives in Marseille
Sabine Schroeder, principal
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Martin Wahl, teacher
Images of the BBS Nienburg
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Our project
Methodological training the key to quality?
What can we do
• to improve the quality of our students?
• to improve the quality of our teaching?
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Our process
• Setup of a regional network of primary and secondary
schools and the vocational school
• Instruction of 40 teachers from these schools as
members of steering committees at each school
• Establishment of steering committees at each school
• Training of selected teachers in the field of method skills
• Coordination of training units by members of the
steering commitee („the godfathers“ or „godmothers“)
• Implementation and transfer of methods in selected
classes
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The House
of Learning
Key Qualifications
Personal Competences
Methodoligical
Competence
Social
Competence
Professional
Competence
Self-reliant Learning and Working
Training
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Methods
Training
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Communication
Skills
Training
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Teamwork
Skills
The House of Learning –
Basic Ideas
Reduce
Enforce
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teacher-centred lessons
high input of facts
mere reproduction of facts
monotonous learning by
heart
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student activity
communicative skills
teamwork skills
methodological skills
self-organization
responsibility
key qualifications
Methods trained
• Obtaining of information in texts with highlighting
and excerption
• Presentation techniques in class
• Visualisation of results (cheat sheet, crib)
• Preparation of tests/exams
• Working in teams
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Evaluation
Questionnaire, filled out seven months after
the beginning of the training
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Highlighting and excerpting helps me to find
information in texts systematically.
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Cheat sheets help me to present results in class.
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The visualisation of facts helps me to remember
coherences.
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I have learned to work on new assignments
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Teamwork provides better solutions.
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I have learned to understand information by
passing it on to other students.
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I have learned to prepare tests more efficiently.
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The spiral of working activities (individual work 
pair work  group work) is better than traditional
teaching.
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The newly learnt methods help me to learn and to
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Conclusions
We must carry on
encouraging our colleagues to take up a different position in
teaching that is
• more activating for the students and
• less dominating for the teacher
encouraging our students to accept
• more freedom
but also
• more responsibility for their learning process.
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Thank you for your attention!