Joseph DuMont Vocational College
| Joseph DuMont Vocational College | |
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| type of school | Vocational college |
| School number | 175134 |
| founding | 1929 |
| address |
Escher Street 217 |
| place | Cologne |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 '55 " N , 6 ° 55' 54" E |
| carrier | city Cologne |
| student | around 3,200 (school year 2012/13) |
| Teachers | about 130 |
| management | Michael Piek |
| Website | www.jdbk.de |
The Joseph DuMont Vocational College (JDBK) in Cologne is a vocational college with a focus on business and administration, which is responsible for the school part of the dual training in the trade, media and law sectors in the greater Cologne area. In addition to the dual training, the JDBK offers full-time instruction in the 2-year higher vocational school, in which school leavers in grade 10 with a technical college entrance qualification can acquire the academic part of the technical college entrance qualification (FHR) within two years . It also offers training preparation classes for pupils who do not want to or cannot attend a secondary school after completing the 10th grade and who have not yet been able to find a training place. In the 2012/2013 school year, the vocational college teaches around 3,200 students at two locations in the Bilderstöckchen and Longerich districts in the north of Cologne.
Name of the school
The namesake of the JDBK was determined in a student competition. Joseph DuMont was a Cologne merchant and publisher and the son of Marcus DuMont , the founder of the publishing house M. DuMont Schauberg . 1831–1861 he was the publisher of the Kölnische Zeitung .
history
Today's Joseph DuMont Vocational College was established in 1929 by dividing the "Commercial Training Schools of the City of Cologne", founded in 1891, into a "Commercial Vocational School for Boys" (K1) and one for girls (K2). Due to the war, the school was closed from 1944 to 1944 1946.
After reopening as “Vocational College 2 of the City of Cologne”, the school initially remained a vocational school for girls. In 1952 the school was assigned the building at Stolzestrasse 5-7. Due to the steady increase in the number of pupils, the school was forced to maintain several branches until 1991. This made collegial cooperation and the development of a school identity difficult. Since 1980 the two-year vocational college for economics and administration was attached to the school, the current structure of the school exists.
In July 1991 the school moved to the building at Escher Straße 217. Under the direction of Lothar Scheffel, the college worked together under one roof for the first time since the end of the war. A further increase in the number of pupils made it necessary to take over the school at Meerfeldstrasse 52 in 2000, which has since included the courses for commercial media professions, with the exception of apprentices to become event managers.
Since January 2009 the JDBK has been employing five people with disabilities as school assistants in cooperation with the non-profit workshops in Cologne and the Rhineland Regional Council . They relieve the school's teaching and administrative staff from numerous administrative tasks.
Since November 2009, the JDBK has been running a cafeteria in cooperation with the neighboring Dreikönigsgymnasium , which provides lunch for the students. As part of the project: "Twelve workplaces for people with disabilities at the Joseph DuMont Vocational College", the school also operates the cafeteria in cooperation with the non-profit workshops in Cologne as a learning canteen. In November 2011 the project received a commendation as part of the Cologne Innovation Prize for Disability Policy.
In 2009, the JDBK was one of 69 schools in North Rhine-Westphalia and one of four schools in the city of Cologne to be awarded the “Good Healthy School” school development prize from the North Rhine-Westphalia Accident Insurance Fund. In 2010 the JDBK received the School Development Award for the second time, in 2011 for the third time and in 2013 for the fourth time. According to the statutes of the Unfallkasse NRW, the JDBK, as a three-time winner of the award in 2012, was not allowed to participate.
On January 31, 2012, the school principal Lothar Scheffel retired. Scheffel had headed the JDBK since 1991. His successor was the previous deputy headmaster Michael Piek.
Architecture and buildings
The building complex on Escher Straße was designed by the architectural team Busmann + Haberer , who also designed the building complex of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the concert hall of the Cologne Philharmonic . The JDBK moved into the building, a combination of red brick and generously proportioned glass surfaces.
The following training courses are located in a separate building at Meerfeldstrasse 52 in Cologne-Longerich : booksellers, specialists for market and social research, specialists for media and information services, salespeople for audiovisual media, salespeople for marketing communication, media salespeople for digital and print.
Educational work, equipment and offers
Educational concept
In 2010, the JDBK teachers' conference adopted the principle that students at the JDBK should learn in a self-organized, media-supported and healthy manner. As a result of this decision, the school staff has since been working on structuring lessons according to the criteria of self-organized learning . The school is closely based on the concept of self-organized learning by Dr. Martin Herold.
The school assumes that PCs, notebooks and mobile devices are the most important tools for action in the commercial sector. Accordingly, the school is increasingly using workstation PCs, notebooks and tablet PCs in the classroom and allows pupils to use their own end devices in the school.
As part of healthy learning, the school uses its expertise as a four-time winner of the "Good, Healthy School" award from the Unfallkasse NRW to give students impulses on how they can protect themselves sustainably from damage to health in their professional and private lives.
Courses
professional school
As part of the dual vocational training, the JDBK conducts vocational school lessons for trainees in eleven occupations.
Wholesale and foreign trade merchant and automobile merchant : Training companies can determine whether the JDBK should train their trainees in part-time or block courses. In part-time lessons, the students attend class two mornings a week during their training, usually six school hours a day. In the block model, the students come to school every day for twelve weeks per training year and during this time they receive the school lessons for the respective training year in one go, usually six to eight school hours a day. There are special regulations for trainees who shorten their training to two and a half or two years. The dual qualification FH represents a special form of training for wholesalers and foreign trade merchants, in which the trainees can acquire the advanced technical college entrance qualification through extended vocational training in addition to their training occupation . The retail education area is taught at the Escher Strasse school in Cologne-Bilderstöckchen.
Booksellers, specialists for market and social research, specialists for media and information services, clerks for audiovisual media, event clerks ( event clerks ), media clerks for digital and print as well as clerks for marketing communication: Here, too, there is the option of the vocational school part of the training in various courses to be completed in block or part-time lessons. The commercial media professions are taught at the Meerfeldstrasse 52 school in Cologne-Longerich. The event clerk training course, which is taught at the Escher Straße school site, is an exception.
Films and short films, which the students produce as part of their training, were broadcast several times on the nationwide television learning channel nrwision .
Legal assistant and notary assistant : Here the JDBK also offers the training course FOS - technical college for economics and administration for trainee legal assistant. In addition, the educational area offers all-day teaching as part of the All-Day Vocational School in Healthy School (GigS) initiative and training as a "Legal Secretary" with a focus on English.
Full time teaching
Training preparation classes
In the area of "Classes for students without a vocational training relationship (KSoB)", the JDBK offers training preparation classes in which students have better prospects for a dual training position through a combination of work experience (three days / week) and vocational school lessons (two days / week) Should acquire vocational training system. The professional practice classes are included in the full-time area, as the school also accompanies the pupils during their internship outside of class times.
2-year higher vocational school
In the 2-year higher vocational school (former higher commercial school), the JDBK offers students with a technical college entrance qualification (Realschule leaving certificate) the opportunity to acquire the technical college entrance qualification within two years. As a commercial vocational college, the JDBK focuses on the areas of business and administration. In addition to German, English and mathematics, business accounting and information management are core subjects. A specialty at the JDBK are the notebook classes . In this learning concept, students have the opportunity to attend the lessons over the two years with their own notebook and to deepen their skills in dealing with common PC applications by using them in the classroom. For the organization and moderation of the lessons, the teachers have a learning platform in addition to the classic teaching materials.
public relation
Support association
Projects to further improve the educational offer are financed through the JDBK Friends' Association. Funds are u. a. collected through a school's own kiosk or participation in the School Angel initiative as well as through donations and contributions.
Event Cologne e. V.
The Event-Köln e. V. was founded in 2004 by teachers in the field of media education.
The association offers trainees in the media education sector the legal framework to be able to carry out project work as part of their school education at the JDBK. Above all, projects of non-profit organizations are supported.
Special features, awards
Inclusion work
In January 2009, three people with disabilities started their work as school assistants at the JDBK as part of a project to integrate people with a handicap into everyday working life, initiated by the non-profit workshops Cologne, the City of Cologne and the Landschaftsverband Rheinland. In 2010 two more assistants started. In November 2009, twelve people with disabilities began their training as system restaurateurs in the JDBK learning canteen.
social commitment
The JDBK students received 15,000 and 16,000 euros in sponsored runs in 2008 and 2011, respectively, for the benefit of non-profit organizations.
Awards
- In 2000, the JDBK received a prize for the project “Moving Images” as part of the “Opening Schools” initiative.
- 2003 Award within the framework of the Federal Foreign Language Prize for the film project of a specialist class for publishing clerks
- 2007 German employer award for education from the BDA
- 2009 School Development Prize Good Healthy School from the Accident Insurance Fund NRW
- 2010 School Development Prize Good Healthy School from the NRW Accident Insurance Fund
- 2011 School Development Prize Good Healthy School from the NRW Accident Insurance Fund
- 2013 School Development Prize Good Healthy School from the Unfallkasse NRW
- 2018 School Development Prize Good Healthy School from the Accident Insurance Fund NRW
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ jdbk.de ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ stadt-koeln.de
- ↑ Good healthy school
- ^ Accident Fund North Rhine-Westphalia
- ↑ accidentkasse-nrw.de
- ↑ ksta.de, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger online from January 31, 2012, accessed on December 11, 2017
- ↑ SOL Institute
- ↑ Films from JDBK in the nrwision media library
- ↑ All -day vocational school in the healthy school ( memento of the original dated February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Ministry of Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: Information on vocational training courses ( memento of the original from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ stadt-koeln.de
- ↑ schulministerium.nrw.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)
