Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena
| Carl Zeiss High School | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1963 |
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Erich-Kuithan-Strasse 7 |
| place | Jena |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 '8 " N , 11 ° 36' 33" E |
| carrier | City of Jena |
| student | about 450 |
| management | Carsten Müller, Gregor Stichel (boarding school, ÜAG gGmbH) |
| Website | https://cz-gymnasium.jena.de/ |
The Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena is a state high school in Jena, Thuringia . The school is named after the optician Carl Zeiss . Since the school year 2008/09, the grammar school has been legally a grammar school from grades 5 to 8 and a special grammar school from grade 9. Nevertheless, when selecting the students for grade 5, it is important that those interested in the MINT subjects are accepted.
history
The special school Carl-Zeiss was founded in 1963 as a reaction to the shortage of skilled workers in the GDR . To compensate for this, the GDR leadership decided to set up special schools with a mathematical, scientific and technical orientation , which should counteract this. So-called contact teachers in normal schools were used to look out for talented students who were then delegated to the special school. After the fall of the Wall in 1990, the Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena was founded as a high school with special classes that emerged from the Carl-Zeiss Special School and the "Clara Zetkin" Polytechnic High School . This step became necessary because the Federal Republic of Germany's education system did not have any purely special schools and therefore the association with a normal grammar school was necessary. After 1990 the special classes were only available for students from the 9th grade.
location
The catchment area of the school includes the entire East Thuringian area. The school is located in the north of Jena in the Löbstedt district , near a residential area under development. Important location factors for the school are the proximity to the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena as well as to research institutes and medium-sized technology companies located on the Beutenberg Campus .
School life
School concept
Under the motto " Support through Challenge ", the aim of the school is to recognize and promote talent at an early stage. In order to achieve this goal, the school has special classes that start with the 9th grade. Pupils who do not come from the Jena area can only attend the school in the special classes from year 9. There is a boarding school for them. In the special classes there are in-depth mathematical, scientific and technical lessons. For students from the area there are preparatory special classes from the 5th grade. Anyone who wants to attend the special school must pass an extensive entrance test. Lateral entries are possible under certain conditions.
In order to reach as many students as possible, there are correspondence circles in natural science subjects, mathematics and computer science for students in grades 5 to 10. Often students from East Thuringia come into contact with the correspondence circles that have been successful in student competitions. At almost all grammar schools in Thuringia there are contact teachers who try to introduce talented students to the school's admission process.
A school trial has been carried out since 1999, the task of which is to test and document the promotion of talent in grades 9 to 12 by including all subjects as well as promotion of talent in grades 5 to 8. The inclusion of all subjects means that a much broader knowledge and a larger amount of methods are taught than is usual in normal high schools. The promotion of students in grades 5 to 8 is a particular challenge due to the as yet untrained orientation of students in this age group.
Furnishing
After the grammar school had moved from Schreckenbachweg to Erich-Kuithan-Straße , the entire school building was renovated and given its current appearance. In 2009 and 2010 the courtyard and the sports field were renewed. In the school itself, there are many mathematical peculiarities to be found through tile patterns and student work. Results and special student projects are presented in a kind of permanent exhibition at various points in the school building. In the entrance area, the tiles form special patterns. In the schoolyard there is a regular 17-sided table with construction instructions for a regular 17-sided table, on the edges of which the annual award winners were immortalized with name tags. From the 18th prize winner, another table with 257 corners is used. With the redesign of the school yard, it also has new features. For example, conic sections are drawn on the floor.
The school has several IT rooms that are equipped with PCs. In addition, almost every room can be equipped with a projector if required , and more than half of the rooms have a permanently installed projector. Projectors and notebooks can be borrowed for presentations if a presentation has to be made with these resources. A large number of the rooms are equipped with electronic boards. The chemistry and physics laboratories have also been modernized. Sufficient equipment is available to carry out experiments in individual work, so that performance surveys can take place within the framework of experiments. The equipment allows the school to host various student competitions from time to time . The school's rooms are also regularly used by the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences in Jena and the Jena Adult Education Center.
Special class
Pupils can be accepted into the preparatory special classes from the 5th grade if they pass the entrance test, which was abolished in 2011 and which took place during the 4th grade. Since then, selection interviews have been held with every potential student. From the 5th grade onwards, they receive intensive support, which is characterized by a significantly higher workload and number of hours even in the lower grades. Since the performance records are also of a significantly higher level, some students leave school again in the course of their school career. In the 8th grade, the entrance test for all students for the special classes from grades 9 to 12 takes place. The students who are already at the school must also pass this. In the 9th grade, many students who do not come from Jena and the surrounding area switch to school and live in a boarding school during the week .
Lesson design
From the 5th grade onwards, the level of instruction is significantly increased in all subjects so as not to be too demanding . The school profile consists of the subjects mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and computer science. In these subjects, lessons usually begin a year earlier than in normal high schools. Physics lessons start in the 6th grade instead of the usual 7th grade. Computer science is offered from the 7th grade. These subjects are taught with an additional hour.
Up to and including the 10th grade there is the so-called optional compulsory lessons (woU), in which the students can choose in which of the subjects mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and computer science they would like to be taught two additional hours per week. This lesson serves as an in-depth introduction to certain sub-areas and the targeted preparation for student competitions. Independent and creative work on difficult and complex problems is practiced here and a variety of new methods are learned and tested. With the introduction of the new school profile, teaching in many subject areas is much more collaborative than is the case at normal high schools. This concerns z. B. the synchronous treatment of certain topics, such as National Socialism in different subjects.
From the course system onwards, the optionally compulsory lessons are transferred to the seminar subject . In this seminar subject, students have to work on a scientific topic under the guidance of external supervisors. The one and a half year study of the topic should lead to a scientific paper that is defended by the students before a commission. The result is included in the Abitur grade. Groups of two to three students are common and individual work is possible, in contrast to groups of three or four students, which are compulsory at normal high schools.
The students were able to continue all natural science subjects in the course system until the upper school reform, although not all of them could be included in the Abitur grade. As a rule, the pupils had to complete 10 basic courses, one or two more basic courses than in normal high schools. When the first advanced course is mathematics required, the second advanced course had a natural science or computer science to be. To differentiate the students, there is a particularly intensive advanced mathematics course every year as a so-called top course in mathematics. Some students choose "English Supplement" as an optional basic subject with the aim of acquiring a Cambridge Certificate in English and taking their high school diploma in English.
The general teaching requirement is that teachers organize the lessons as flexibly as possible and adapt them to the students. Often times, teaching is not done with standard textbooks , but with literature that is directly suitable for the study. In many subjects, the students are given the opportunity to help shape the lessons themselves, if time allows and if it is a supplement, which is particularly true of the profile subjects. It happens now and then that student teachers hold teaching attempts on a very special advanced topic, which are often carried out in their free time.
Projects in the context of the school profile
In the ninth grade, a project work takes place every year in which the working time is half a year and the results are defended in a presentation at the end. The project work has a given main topic that is given by the departments. The topics must be related to the main topic (e.g. colors). This project serves as preparation for the seminar paper.
At the end of the ninth grade, there is a biology and geography excursion on topics that are specifically dealt with in both subject areas (e.g. soils). During this excursion, students are required to give lectures. In the end, the students have to prove their learning outcomes by means of tasks.
A computer science project takes place in the tenth grade. The students have the task of creating, documenting and defending software for a specific problem on a topic of their choice in groups . This project also serves as preparation for the seminar paper. The first half year, in which algorithmic and programming basics are taught, is used for preparation, the second half year is the project phase itself. In the twelfth grades of the computer science basic course, another project is also carried out, but the working hours are much shorter. In the twelfth grade of the computer science advanced course, a project is then carried out, which is supported by the entire course, in order to simulate a situation in professional software development .
In some subjects in the upper school , lectures have to be given in English. The most important project in the last four years of the school career is the seminar paper. Here, the level of difficulty is also higher than at normal high schools. The aim is to submit a thesis that meets all the standards of an academic paper. For this purpose, the students spend a year and a half at institutes and deal with scientific issues. The seminar papers are often so good that many of them are submitted to Jugend forscht and many of them also win prizes in the national round.
Other Projects
Other projects take place in interdisciplinary lessons, for example the social project in the sixth grade that trains soft skills .
Every two years there is a one-week cultural internship for the 10th and 11th grades, in which the students create projects together with different artists in different groups. Groups are for example pantomime, dancing, making music.
In the last two weeks of each school year, the ninth grades traditionally do a two-week internship .
Participation and success in school competitions
The pupils of the Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium are requested to take part in different kinds of pupil competitions. There are also limits to the number of participants, so that overloading is to be counteracted. Many students successfully represent the school at the federal level and even at the international level. Competitions are:
- International Mathematical Olympiad
- Central European Mathematical Olympiad
- International Physics Olympiad
- International Chemistry Olympiad
- International Biology Olympiad
- International Olympiad in Computer Science
- Central European Computer Science Olympiad
- International Junior Science Olympiad
- European Union Science Olympiad
- Youth research
- Federal mathematics competition
- Federal competition in computer science
- Beaver competition computer science
- Online competition computer science
- Federal and State Mathematical Olympiad
- Thuringian Physics Olympiad
- Chemistry that's right
- German school chess championships
The success of the school also has its origins in the fact that working groups have been installed for many subjects that prepare the students for these competitions in their free time, also with the help of former participants in such competitions.
Special degrees
In addition to the normal Abitur, students at the Carl Zeiss Gymnasium also have a special Abitur. Since a lot of additional material is taught in the advanced courses in the upper level, which does not play a role in the normal central high school diploma, an additional examination is necessary. The additional exams differ considerably from the normal Abitur, as all tasks have the character of competitive tasks and are therefore significantly more difficult. The exams are designed so that none of the specialty students completely solve all the tasks. In addition to their high school diploma, the students also receive certificates for their special high school diploma. Furthermore, it is possible to acquire a Cambridge Certificate, as the preparation and test exams are offered by the school and are also carried out at the Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium in cooperation with the adult education center in Jena. In addition, the students receive a notification from the school about the additional content imparted in the classroom and their competitive performance, which is therefore useful, as the students receive very poor grades for performance that would be excellent at other grammar schools.
reputation
The grammar school is best known for the success of the students in student competitions. Many of the students find it much easier to start their studies thanks to the intensive training. In addition, the school is very well known in the scientific institutions that are nearby, as students repeatedly work on important scientific projects and achieve very good results.
In 1987 Jena hosted the 18th International Physics Olympiad. This was also organized by the special school. The Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium is regularly the school with the most submissions to the national computer science competition and is therefore repeatedly recognized as a BWINF school.
Regional center of East Thuringia
The Regional Center East Thuringia is a center integrated into the school for the promotion of academically gifted and interested students in East Thuringia. The correspondence circles are organized and carried out under the auspices of the regional center and the school trial takes place. The regional center maintains contact with the contact teachers at other grammar schools and works on projects to promote young scientists in East Thuringia. Framework agreements have been concluded with the Thuringia Ministry of Culture, the City of Jena, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences in Jena .
Support association
The association "Spezialschule Carl Zeiss, Jena" e. V aims to improve the training with the help of the teaching staff, parents and alumni and to support it financially. This is done through cooperation with STIFT and Carl Zeiss Jena, among other things. Every year the association awards the annual special school prize to a pupil of the Abitur class at the Abitur celebration.
Web links
- Website of the Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena
- Website of the Regional Center East Thuringia
- Website of the association "Spezialschule Carl Zeiss Jena" e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Admission. (No longer available online.) In: carl-zeiss-gymnasium.de. Carl Zeiss Gymnasium Jena, archived from the original on April 27, 2014 ; accessed on May 16, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ School profile. (No longer available online.) In: carl-zeiss-gymnasium.de. Carl Zeiss Gymnasium Jena, archived from the original on April 27, 2014 ; accessed on May 16, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ school trial. (No longer available online.) In: carl-zeiss-gymnasium.de. Carl Zeiss Gymnasium Jena, archived from the original on April 27, 2014 ; accessed on May 16, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kulturpraktikum 2013. (No longer available online.) In: carl-zeiss-gymnasium.de. Carl Zeiss Gymnasium Jena, archived from the original on May 17, 2014 ; accessed on May 16, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Uta Keseling: Germany's smartest students. In: Berliner Morgenpost . October 1, 2007, archived from the original on September 30, 2007 ; accessed on May 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium is "BWInf School of the Year". (No longer available online.) In: jenatv.de. April 5, 2011, archived from the original on May 17, 2014 ; accessed on May 16, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Regional Center East Thuringia. In: www.regionalzentrumostthueringen.de. Regional Center East Thuringia, accessed on May 16, 2014 .
