Free Comenius School Darmstadt

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Free Comenius School
Free Comenius School Darmstadt.jpg
type of school Integrated comprehensive school (with elementary level)
founding 1986
address

Jägertorstrasse 179b
64289 Darmstadt

place Darmstadt
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 54 '11 "  N , 8 ° 40' 39"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 54 '11 "  N , 8 ° 40' 39"  E
carrier Free Comenius School, Free Evangelical School Community e. V.
student 160
Teachers 18th
management Governing body
Website www.fcs-da.de

The Free Comenius School is a primary school and integrated comprehensive school founded and supported by parents in 1986 in Darmstadt in the Kranichstein district .

As an approved, privately owned substitute school , it works according to its own concept, in which elements from different representatives of classic reform pedagogy were combined with newer ideas. In addition to the basic ideas of the eponym Johann Amos Comenius , the principles of Freinet pedagogy according to Célestin Freinet and structural elements of the Jena Plan pedagogy shape the school structure and school life. The Free Comenius School can therefore be counted among the Jena Plan Schools as well as the Freinet Schools . Parents' participation in decision-making can be highlighted as a further important feature.

Educational features

Features of the special pedagogy of the Free Comenius School include:

  • Inclusion , i.e. mixed groups for students with and without special educational needs (people with and without disabilities). As in the 2009 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the school community of the Free Comenius School wants to be an inclusive place of education: Here, the common teaching of pupils with and without disabilities should be the norm.
  • Cross-year groups (first to third school year, fourth to sixth school year, seventh to ninth school year)
  • Democratic school and teaching organization
  • No numerical grades up to and including the 8th year, instead individual feedback and learning advice as well as extensive annual development reports and discussions with parents
  • All-day rhythm with a special emphasis on social learning
  • No homework
  • Math learning - the teachers try to see the content and methods through the eyes of the pupils, so they go beyond the didactics and methodology.
  • Holistic learning / interdisciplinary learning / project learning / practical learning / student company
  • Manual and creative work in workshops
  • Active participation of parents in everyday school life
  • Trunk groups backing implemented as teaching instruction group ( team teaching ) in each case by a teacher and a teacher
  • In the 9th year the students complete the "FCS own degree". It highlights content that the students have learned at the Free Comenius School: setting up a company, writing a specialist thesis, social-ecological project, etc. a. The degree is also skill-based: reflective skills, problem solving skills, ability to present, etc.

The Free Comenius School is a member of the Federal Association of Free Alternative Schools and one of the few free alternative schools with the option of acquiring a secondary or secondary school leaving certificate after the tenth school year as part of an external “ non-pupil examination ”. Since 2015, the "vocational qualification" has also been awarded. In 2018, the school-internal "life-practically oriented degree" was added.

chronology

  • 1986: Founding and approval as a private substitute school from year one to year six ( elementary school and support level )
  • 1986: August 16: Started with 11 children in the YMCA home in Darmstadt-Arheilgen
  • 1988: The school moves to the pavilions of the Lichtenberg School in Darmstadt
  • 1993: Start of construction of our own school in Kranichstein
  • 1996: Teaching permit for years seven to ten
  • 1998: Recognition as a "school with a special pedagogical character"
  • 1999: The first FCS students are dismissed after external exams with secondary and secondary school leaving certificates.
  • 2003: Restructuring of the secondary school  - also the upper group ("O") now comprises three (instead of two) years.
  • 2006: 20 years of the Free Comenius School. Opening of a second senior group, construction of an additional teaching building for the secondary level.
  • 2007: Completion of the first phase of an externally supported school development process with the adoption of a fully formulated mission statement.
  • 2009: host for the “Federal Meeting of Free Alternative Schools ” of the BFAS .
  • 2010: Extension of an additional group room to the secondary school building.
  • 2010: Completion of the second phase of the school development process, including the introduction of differentiated management structures and the appointment of a two-person school management.
  • 2012: Energetic refurbishment of the two-storey middle-group building.
  • 2016: On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the BFAS federal meeting, it was held again.
  • 2017: Renewal (demolition and replacement) of the administrative wing.

literature

  • Manfred Borchert (Ed.): Free alternative schools in Germany - 45 school portraits. Federal Association of Free Alternative Schools in the FRG, Marl 2003, ISBN 3-8311-4422-2 , p. 174ff.
  • Wolf-Eckart Failing, Hans Scharrer (Red.): The country needs new schools. Initial story and concept of the Free Comenius School Darmstadt. Lingbach, Darmstadt 1989, ISBN 3-923982-04-6 .
  • Matthias Heinrichs: The Free Comenius School, an integrated comprehensive school based on Freinet pedagogy in Darmstadt. In: Christian Ernst, Hans Döbert (Ed.): State and independent schools. Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2001, ISBN 3-89676-464-0 , pp. 155-173 ( basic knowledge of pedagogy. Current school concepts 3).
  • Matthias Heinrichs: Free Comenius School . In: Norbert Scholz (Red.): Free alternative schools. Children go to school. Interior and exterior views. Published by the Federal Association of Independent Alternative Schools. Drachen-Verlag, Wolfratshausen 1992, ISBN 3-927369-05-5 , p. 89ff. ( Books for education ).
  • Michael Buchert: What is important! Project learning at the Free Comenius School Darmstadt: One year in project lessons in the senior group. In: Timo Jacobs and Susanne Herker (eds.): Jenaplan pedagogy in conception and practice. Schneider-Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2018, ISBN 978-3-8340-1716-1 , p. 379ff.

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