German teacher award

The German Teachers Award - Innovative Lessons is a competition initiated in 2009 by the German Association of Philologists (DPhV) and the Vodafone Foundation Germany .

Ideas and goals

The teaching profession is one of the most demanding and important activities in our society. This activity can only be carried out optimally and successfully if teachers are well trained, highly motivated and have appropriate framework conditions. This also includes public recognition and appreciation.

The long-term goals of the “German Teacher Award - Innovative Lessons” award are to improve the perception and image of the teaching profession in the public as well as effective impulses to improve teaching in schools.

Origin of the competition

The “German Teachers Award - Innovative Lessons” was initiated in 2009 by the German Association of Philologists and the Vodafone Foundation Germany. The competition emerged from two concepts, on the one hand "Innovative teaching", which was carried out jointly from 2003 to 2008 by the German Association of Philologists, the [Federal Association of German Industry] and the [Industrial Research Foundation], and on the other hand " Pisagoras - German Teacher Award" , 2007 and 2008 realized on the initiative of Susanne Porsche .

From 2009 to 2019 the "German Teachers Award - Innovative Lessons" was jointly organized by the Vodafone Foundation Germany and the German Association of Philologists. The concept newly developed for this combined the category of student votes on the one hand with the evaluation of innovative teaching concepts on the other.

For the 2020 competition round, the Vodafone Foundation Germany transferred its sponsorship to the Heraeus Education Foundation , which was a partner of the competition in 2011.

The jury

The preselection and assessment of the submissions in the "Innovative teaching" category is done by around 40 active teachers, and in the "Excellent Teachers" category by non-working teachers. The appraisal of the category “exemplary school management” is carried out by trainers from the Heraeus Education Foundation, school principals out of service, head of the school office and academics from school research. All three groups are coordinated by the University of Kassel . The jury for 2020 includes a. to: Beate Heraeus , Chairwoman of the Heraeus Education Foundation , Stefanie Hubig , Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Education and President of the Conference of Ministers of Education for 2020, Roland Kaehlbrandt , Board Member of the Frankfurt Main Polytechnic Foundation and Susanne Lin-Klitzing , Federal Chairwoman of the German Association of Philologists.

The initiators

The "German Teacher Award - Innovative Lessons" is jointly organized by the Heraeus Education Foundation and the German Association of Philologists (DPhV).

The German Teacher Award 2019

From the submissions of the more than 5,400 participating students and teachers from all over Germany, a total of 16 teachers and six teams of pedagogues from a total of ten federal states were recognized for their outstanding pedagogical commitment and innovative teaching projects. Six awards went to North Rhine-Westphalia, four to Baden-Württemberg, two each to Bavaria, Hesse, Saarland and Saxony-Anhalt, and one each to Berlin, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Thuringia.

Award winner of the year 2019

In the competition category “Students distinguish teachers”, 16 particularly committed teachers were nominated by students in the 2018/2019 final classes. Five awards went to North Rhine-Westphalia. These are teachers from the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff Gymnasium Münster; the Elsa Brändström secondary school in Essen; the Gymnasium Remigianum Borken; the Städtische Real¬schule Waltrop and the Clemens-Brentano-Gymnasium Dülmen. The jury awarded three awards to the Engen high school in Baden-Württemberg; the six-lime school GWRS Pfullendorf and the Hohenlohe-Gymnasium Öhringen. There are two award winners in Hesse, the Limes School Idstein and the Hermann Hesse School in Obertshausen. Also in Saxony-Anhalt the State High School for Music Wernigerode; the BbS V Halle / Saale. One prize winner each in the category “Students distinguish teachers” this year comes from Berlin from the Evangelical Gymnasium to the Gray Monastery, Hamburg Vocational School St. Pauli, the Saarland Gymnasium am Rotenbühl Saarbrücken and Thuringia from the State Vocational School Center Hermsdorf-Schleiz-Pößneck -Saale -Orla-Kreis-, school part Pößneck.

In the second category of the competition, "Teachers: Innovative Lessons", the jury awarded the first prize to a team of teachers from the Inge-Aicher-Scholl Realschule Neu-Ulm-Pfuhl in cooperation with the Gregor-von-Scherr-Realschule Neunburg vorm Wald for your school-wide "learning office digitally cooperative". The second prize went to the team from BBS Ammerland in Bad Zwischenahn for their project “Footprint on the Planet”. The team from Oskar-Maria-Graf-Gymnasium Neufahrn was awarded the third prize for their project “Students as Prosumer”. The special prize of the weekly newspaper “DIE ZEIT” for its project “PhiloWelt: iPad App” went to the team of educators from the Geschwister-Scholl-Gesamtschule Moers. The team from the Werkrealschule GWRS Villingendorf was awarded the special prize from Cornelsen Verlag for their project “Ireland trip”. The special digital prize of the Vodafone Foundation Germany went to the team together with other teachers from the professional association of the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule Blieskastel for their project "TuK - Technology and Climate".