Protestant schools in the Firstwald

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Protestant schools in the Firstwald
type of school All-day and boarding school with
elementary school and high school
founding 1957
address

Firstwaldstrasse 36–58
72116 Mössingen

place Mössingen
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 24 '51 "  N , 9 ° 4' 17"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '51 "  N , 9 ° 4' 17"  E
carrier School foundation of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg
student over 500
management Helmut Dreher
Website www.firstwald.de

The Protestant schools at Firstwald are a Protestant school center with boarding school in Mössingen in the Tübingen district . The sponsor is the school foundation of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg .

School types

Firstwald also offers a full-day school .

history

The history of today's Firstwald School began in 1957. The Protestant faculty of the church district of Tübingen expressed their wish for a Protestant grammar school in southern Württemberg at the Evangelical Church in Stuttgart. In 1965, the Protestant secondary school opened as a home school, although the construction work was far from being completed at that time. Initially, the pupils had to go to eat in the former “Silberburg” restaurant, which was reactivated as a school canteen. The first headmaster was Eberhard Mitzlaff. At that time, the students mostly came from the Swabian Alb, where there was no possibility of attending secondary schools, and from an artisanal or rural family background. Initially a boys' school , from 1968 girls could also attend it (beginning of co-education ). In 1994 the transition from an advanced to an all-day high school took place. In 2009 the school was renamed "Schools at Firstwald". The boarding school was reopened and a secondary school essay was installed.

The school went through a crisis in the early 2000s when church funding was cut. In 2004 Helmut Dreher became principal of the school. In 2009 a primary school was added to the Firstwald School.

Educational concept

The Firstwald schools are based on a “Christian image of man”. The pupils should identify with this image of man, not necessarily with the Christian faith, regardless of their religious background. In general, only around a third of the students at Protestant grammar schools in Württemberg come from the “Christian milieu”.

The school claims to redistribute responsibility between teachers and students. This also includes heterogeneous learning groups and integration . Gifted students should learn alongside students with learning disabilities and wheelchair users alongside young competitive athletes.

Some of the teaching staff live on the school premises.

primary school

The Evangelische Grundschule am Firstwald is based on the Jena Plan pedagogy (based on Peter Petersen ) and takes up other reform pedagogical approaches in its concept . Above all, this includes open forms of work, project teaching and practical learning (so-called “world orientation”). The primary school started in the 2009/2010 school year with the first grade and since the 2012/13 school year has included grades 1–4 in multi-year learning groups.

In-school democracy

In the Firstwald schools there is a so-called convention, which has eight teachers and eight students with equal voting rights. He advises the school conference (teachers, students, parents) and mediates between the teachers' council, school management and SMV . The convention meets six times per school year. The model for equal co-determination was the Montan Co-Determination Act of 1951.

Special

In 2010, the Firstwald-Gymnasium received the German School Prize in the "Academy Prize" category for its special concept for further development.

literature

  • Christoph Gramzow: Diakonie in der Schule , 2010, p. 121 f.
  • Regine Walter: Diakonia as educational content and profile of a school. Experiences at the Evangelisches Firstwald-Gymnasium in Mössingen , in: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik und Theologie 1/2002, 63–73.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. school management. In: www.firstwald.de. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .
  2. Firstwald friends celebrated. In: www.tagblatt.de. Archived from the original on February 13, 2013 ; accessed on April 11, 2020 .
  3. title. (No longer available online.) In: www.evangelisches-gemeindeblatt.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 11, 2020 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.evangelisches-gemeindeblatt.de
  4. Uta Hallwirth: Heterogeneity affirmative - suggestions from the practice of Protestant schools , in: Martin Schreiner (Ed.): Growing up in Würde , Vol. 15, 2012, p. 60.