Institute for Teacher Education

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Building of the Institute for Teacher Training on Wigardstrasse in Dresden ; today the seat of the Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art

Institute for Teacher Education (IfL) were technical schools in the GDR at which lower level teachers (classes 1 to 4 of the POS at that time ) as well as home educators and pioneering leaders were trained. As a school qualification, the completion of the 10th grade ( Mittlere Reife ) was sufficient.In this respect, they were not comparable with the pedagogical academies of the Weimar Republic or the pedagogical universities that emerged from it in the Federal Republic of Germany and the newly founded pedagogical universities in the GDR , for which an Abitur was required . In the Unification Treaty of 1990 this led to considerable problems with the classification in the tariffs of the public service in the Federal Republic and in the following decades in the equality with teachers trained at universities.

history

The prerequisite for the four-year training was the completion of the 10-class polytechnic high school (POS). From 1950, primary school teachers received their training at the Institute for Teacher Training in Dresden-Neustadt . In the mid-1950s, further institutes for teacher training were established as technical schools throughout the GDR.

The institutes were often given the names of well-known personalities:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meyer's Universal Lexicon Volume 2 . VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1979, p. 366.