Karl Schiller Vocational College

Karl Schiller Vocational College of ; the City of Dortmund
type of school	Vocational college
School number	179930
founding	1889
place	Dortmund
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 31 '6 " N , 7 ° 28' 20" E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '6 " N , 7 ° 28' 20" E
carrier	City of Dortmund
student	approx. 3,100
Teachers	approx. 120
management	Uwe Wiemann
Website	http://www.ksbk-do.de

The Karl Schiller Vocational College of the City of Dortmund is a commercial vocational college in North Rhine-Westphalia sponsored by the City of Dortmund and is located on Brügmannstrasse in the center of Dortmund. It is named after the German politician and economist Karl Schiller (1911–1994). Until 1999 the school was called 'Commercial Schools II'. At the Karl Schiller Vocational College, around 3,100 learners and 120 teachers are active in 20 different courses.

Furnishing

The building, which was built in the 1960s, was extensively renovated and modernized from 2009 to 2011. The architecture corresponds to a no-frills Bauhaus style.

Entrance area during the big break

On October 10, 2011, the Lord Mayor of Dortmund, Ullrich Sierau , officially handed over the renovated school building to the students and teachers. The college has 64 classrooms, all of which are equipped with a PC and projector . 27 rooms are so-called vocational college rooms (classrooms with 12 separate PC workstations). There are also 6 learning offices (24 PC workstations each). A self-learning center enables the students to learn independently with the help of PC workstations and a reference library. In addition, there are special rooms for the subjects of data processing, biology and physics. Physical education takes place in the adjoining two-story sports hall. Other sports facilities include a. the Südbad , the Helmut-Körnig-Halle and the Rote Erde stadium . The privately operated cafeteria is available to students between 7:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

School history

The Karl Schiller Vocational College of the City of Dortmund emerged from the Commercial Schools II. These have their common roots (together with the commercial schools I and III) in the “Dortmund Commercial Teachers”, which were founded in 1889 as a joint effort by the city of Dortmund and the Chamber of Commerce. The former Commercial Schools II emerged in 1959 from the first division of the “Municipal Commercial Schools”. The division was necessary because the school, with over 11,000 students at the time, had become too big. In 1966 the grammar school branch was attached to the higher commercial school as a school experiment. This lasted until 1989 and was replaced by the upper school level of the economy and administration type. Also in 1966, the Commercial Schools II received permission to operate the technical colleges for business. In 1993, the Fachschule für Wirtschaft, a training course in the field of further education, was introduced. On June 15, 1999 the vocational college was renamed 'Karl-Schiller-Berufskolleg der Stadt Dortmund'. In accordance with the law, the school committee had given all Dortmund vocational colleges its own name and made a contribution to better differentiating between the eight vocational schools.

School program

The model is anchored in the school program of the Karl Schiller Vocational College : The Karl Schiller Vocational College is a commercial school that recognizes the heterogeneity of its learners, accepts and uses them in order to promote them individually in such a way that they are in professional, social and to be able to act actively, responsibly and sustainably in private contexts. The Karl Schiller Vocational College sees itself as a learning organization,

in which respect, tolerance and team spirit are expected and lived,
which is based on individualized learning processes and advises and promotes its students,
who realizes numerous collaborations and projects to optimize learning processes,
who systematically evaluates its processes and ensures their sustainability,
in which the pupils as well as partners outside of school participate cooperatively in the development of school life.

The individual educational programs of the school specifically concretise the model formulated in this way through annually evaluated and updated target agreements .

Individual support

The Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded the Karl Schiller Vocational College in 2008 the seal of approval for individual support . This seal is awarded to schools that, in successful practice, individually support students in different areas. Areas of individual advancement to be highlighted at the Karl Schiller Vocational College are:

the concept of self-regulated learning throughout the vocational school , which among other things enables individualized learning processes,
the individualized promotion of spelling, grammar and punctuation through cooperation with the Gutschrift-Institut,
the individualized promotion of mathematical skills,
the extensive study and career orientation concept and
the extensive range of differentiation courses.

Since 2009, the Karl Schiller Vocational College has also been a support school in the field of individual support and thus also acts as an advisory body for other schools.

In addition, there are two social workers at the school who cover all areas of school social work .

Graffito of the student social work in component C

Since June 2013 the Karl Schiller Vocational College has been participating in the initiative “Future Schools NRW - Network Learning Culture Individual Support” from the Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Awards (chronological selection)

The Karl Schiller Vocational College has received various awards in recent years:

School without Racism (2008)
UNESCO Certificate for Sustainable Education - Official Project of the UN World Decade (2008)
Seal of approval for individual support (2008) and base school for individual support (2009)
Agenda 21 - Dortmund - Seal for Sustainable Development (2009)
1000th project of the UN Decade for Sustainable Education (2010)
Fairtrade badge of the city of Dortmund (2011)
Special prize for the Westphalian Trade Prize 2011 - recognition of innovative training in the retail sector (2011)
Agenda 21 - Dortmund - Seal for Sustainable Development (2011)
School of the Future - Education for Sustainability (2012)
Agenda 21 - Dortmund - Seal for Sustainable Development (2012)
Dortmund Citizens' Environment Prize (2013)

Graffito of the self-learning center in component A.

School courses

professional school

The vocational school area comprises around 2,350 students; These are trained in 10 apprenticeships , the focus here is on the areas of trade, marketing and services. The Karl Schiller Vocational College is currently training in the following professions as part of its dual training :

"Favorite pieces", an example of the shop window design of the training course "Designer for visual marketing" in component B

The retail sector is the largest training course at the vocational school. The Karl Schiller Vocational College is the second largest educational institution in North Rhine-Westphalia, which is involved in the training of young professionals in the retail sector as part of the dual system of vocational training. Some courses, u. a. Specialists for media and information services , salespeople for marketing communication and event salespeople act as district subject classes for one or more government districts or as state subject classes for the whole of North Rhine-Westphalia . Vocational school lessons are consistently organized in a practical and didactically modern way in the courses . In the course of the learning field concept , particular emphasis is placed on a high degree of independence and personal responsibility in the learning process of the trainees. Apprentices who have attended the Karl Schiller Vocational College as part of their dual training are regularly recognized for their top performance at local, state and national level.

View into the self-study center

Model tests and projects (chronological selection)

The vocational school department continuously takes part in pilot projects and projects, some of which are supported by scientific and other extracurricular institutions and some of which are carried out within the department.

BLK model test sail-bs

From 2005 to 2007, the Karl Schiller Vocational College took part in the BLK - model experiment segel-bs (= self-regulated learning in learning fields of vocational schools) with the retail training course. In the course of the pilot project, instructional learning situations were developed for all learning fields of the three years of training , which are characterized by a high level of practical relevance and enable self-regulated learning throughout. The learning situations were in the retail curricular implemented permanently. The pilot project was scientifically supported by the Chair of Business Education (Chair: Peter FE Sloane ) at the University of Paderborn .

Pilot project of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia aSE

Between 2005 and 2008 the Karl Schiller Vocational College took part in the aSE (= vocational training and self-employment in retail) pilot project with funding from the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . The aim of this pilot project was the development, testing and evaluation of transferable materials for qualification for professional independence .

Leonardo da Vinci project EUKONA

In the period from 2007 to 2009 the school participated in the Leonardo da Vinci project EUKONA (= European competence development for sustainable management). In the course of participating in the project, extensive teaching / learning materials on sustainable management were developed. The results were implemented in the internal curricula and also transferred to other educational programs. Project partners included the Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy .

BMBF project ZUKKER

In the course of participating (2010–2012) in the BMBF project ZUKKER (= acquiring future- oriented skills for tomorrow's markets), learning modules were developed that enable additional qualifications in the field of fair trade . These were tried out with project classes, anchored in the curriculum and then made available to other educational institutions. The project was scientifically supported by the Leuphana University of Lüneburg . Another project partner was the Impulse agency from Dortmund.

Internal project InFö-BS

During a project that was planned to run from 2011 to 2014, the internal vocational school project InFö-BS (= individual support in vocational school courses) focused on the development, testing, optimization and implementation of course-specific concepts for the individual support of students.

BMBF project KONWIKA

The Karl Schiller Vocational College was involved in the BMBF project KONWIKA (= development and testing of a competence model for sustainable management of commercial trainees) with a project duration from 2011 to 2014. The aim of the project was to design and empirically test a competence model for the sustainable management of commercial trainees. Both cognitive-related aspects and attitude and value-related components were taken into account.

MSW project InBig

The InBig project (Individual Competence Development Paths: Training Course Work in Dual Training Preparation) is anchored in the federal program "XENOS - Integration and Diversity". It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) and the European Social Fund (ESF). In cooperation between the Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MSW) and the Center for Vocational Education and Training (cevet) of the University of Paderborn, it was carried out at up to 16 vocational colleges in North Rhine-Westphalia from March 2012 to December 2014, the Karl- Schiller Vocational College acted as one of the implementation partners. The focus of the project was on the dualized training preparation: diagnosis of basic skills, development of individual support plans and development of learning materials at different levels.

Further collaborations with universities for teaching development

The Karl Schiller Vocational College has been cooperating with the University of Paderborn since 2008. Teachers work in the form of partial delegations from the business education graduate college at the university and do their doctorates on current practical school topics.

Training preparation

"The training preparation provides professional knowledge, skills and abilities as well as professional orientation. The learners develop competencies for the start of an initial professional training or employment. The training courses enable the acquisition of a qualification equivalent to the secondary school certificate. The training preparation takes one year is complemented by internships and lessons with a high proportion of practical experience. The courses are offered in part-time and full-time form. In the part-time form, the lessons are coordinated with offers from those who undertake vocational preparation. "

One-year vocational school

In the five classes of the one-year vocational school, pupils with an intermediate level of education ( Fachoberschulreife ) acquire basic vocational training within one year, and if they perform particularly well, they also acquire the qualification to attend upper secondary school. Basic vocational training is acquired in the areas of business and administration (one-year commercial school with a focus on sales management and customer advice as well as office management and commercial administration) or information and telecommunications technology. The aim is to prepare for vocational training in the commercial or IT sector by means of special teaching events, e.g. B. Service learning projects and individual support measures.

Vocational high school (business high school / computer science high school)

At the vocational high school with the focus on business high school (1st advanced course: business administration) and computer science high school (1st advanced course: mathematics, 2nd advanced course: computer science), a total of around 240 pupils with technical college entrance qualification are active. In three years they acquire professional knowledge and the general higher education entrance qualification ( Abitur ). In grade 11 as an approximation level, the focus is on individual support in the subjects of German, mathematics and English. In grades 12 and 13, students set a focus on inclination by choosing differentiation courses. Here, the focus on "Marketing & Trade" enables professional accentuation. Development talks and offers for career and study orientation accompany the learners through all grades.

College of Economics

At the Karl Schiller Vocational College, people with professional experience can acquire a state-certified business economist with a focus on sales management or business informatics in the form of advanced training either part-time or full-time . School attendance lasts three years in the part-time and two years in the full-time form. State-certified business economists have exam-free access to all courses at all public universities in Germany. Through cooperation with some technical colleges and universities, a subsequent course of study can be shortened to a bachelor's degree or directly to a master's degree .

Higher business school

The higher commercial school can be attended by pupils with a middle school leaving certificate (Fachoberschulreife, FOR with and without Q-note) after grade 10 or with the authorization to attend the gymnasiale Oberstufe. The aim is to obtain the theoretical part of the advanced technical college entrance qualification in order to study at a university of applied sciences - in connection with an apprenticeship (practical part) or a relevant 24-week internship - or to achieve a good and qualified starting position for the application on the job market.

Duration of the course: 2 years

Partner schools

The Karl Schiller Vocational College maintains relationships with various partner schools around the world. These are currently:

Elizbarrutiko Irakas-Gunea Muskiz, Spain
Heinrich Kunter Commercial School, Bozen, South Tyrol, Italy
Holstebro Handelsskole Holstebro, Denmark
Koning-Willem-College's Hertogenbosch Netherlands
Polaris Career Center Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Politécnico de Economía Antonio Guiteras Holmes, Havana, Cuba
Ribe Handelsskole Ribe, Denmark

Partner universities

The Karl Schiller Vocational College cooperates in the area of continuing education with several universities in Germany. Graduates of the state-certified business economist at the Karl-Schiller-Berufskolleg have the opportunity to shorten a Bachelor's or Master's degree at the following universities:

Academy for Corporate Management (directly to AFUM)
EBZ Business School
European University of Applied Sciences
South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences
HFH Hamburger Fern-Hochschule (distance learning)
Private University of Göttingen (distance learning)

Participation in competitions

Educational courses regularly take part in school competitions. B. 2019 with a nationwide 4th place, 2018 with a 3rd place (North Rhine-Westphalia), 2014 with a 7th place and 2015 with a 3rd place in the German Start-up Prize for Schoolchildren . In 2013, the founding ideas in the Westphalia-Lippe region reached 1st place, 5th place, 6th place and 9th place. In the course of participating in the nationwide RWE competition on energy efficiency, a class team took 1st place with the "Earth Hour 2013 Dortmund" project (Winner upper secondary level - Category I: Encouraging others to participate). At the shop window competition 2010 in Hagen, the contribution of the budding visual marketing designer was honored with the honorary award.

Publications (chronological selection)

Krakau, Uwe / Rickes, Mabel (2005): Karl Schiller Vocational College of the City of Dortmund, in: Dilger, Bernadette / Sloane, Peter FE / Tiemeyer, Ernst (Ed.): Self-regulated learning in fields of learning - Volume I: Concepts, positions and projects in the retail training course, Paderborn 2005, pp. 61–68.
Krakau, Uwe / Rickes, Mabel (2006): Implicit communication of learning strategies and their framework conditions in a model test school - SKOLA at the Karl Schiller Vocational College of the City of Dortmund, in: Lang, Martin / Pätzold, Günter (ed.): Paths to support Self-directed learning in vocational training, Bochum 2006, pp. 109–137.
Krakau, Uwe / Rickes, Mabel (2007): Promotion of self-regulated learning in specialist classes of the dual system - framework conditions, implementation and evaluation (PDF; 264 kB), in: bwp @, edition 13, 2007.
Krakau, Uwe (2007): How it works so that everything works: A learning situation from the professional field of business and administration to promote a new learning culture, in: berufsbildung, Heft 106, 2007, pp. 8-12.
Dilger, Bernadette / Krakau, Uwe / Rickes, Mabel / Sloane, Peter, FE / Tiemeyer, Ernst (2007): Development of learning situations to promote self-regulated learning in learning fields - examples from retail (PDF; 3.1 MB), in : Tiemeyer, Ernst / Krakau, Uwe (Hrsg.): Self-regulated learning in vocational schools - information on teaching, teacher and school development in the context of the model experiment segel-bs, NRW, Soest 2007, model experiment information 4.
Dilger, Bernadette / Krakau, Uwe (2007): Strategies of self-regulated learning (PDF; 1.1 MB), in: Tiemeyer, Ernst / Krakau, Uwe (ed.): Self-regulated learning in vocational schools - information on teaching, Teacher and school development in the context of the model test segel-bs, NRW, Soest 2007, model test information 5.
Dilger, Bernadette / Rickes, Mabel / Sloane, Peter FE (2007): Instruments for the observation and description of self-regulated learning (PDF; 1.2 MB), in: Tiemeyer, Ernst / Krakau, Uwe (ed.): Self-regulated learning in vocational schools - information on teaching, teaching staff and school development in the context of the model test segel-bs, NRW, Soest 2007, model test information 6.
Krakau, Uwe / Jaeger, Petra (2008): Promote entrepreneurship! - Experience with the pilot project for vocational training and self-employment in retail, in: Die Kaufmänliche Schule, Heft 1, 2008, pp. 11-16.
Kniehauer, Isabella / Krakau, Uwe (2009): Promoting self-employment - project experience in the dual system and in the upper secondary school, in: Erziehungswissenschaft und Beruf, Heft 1, 2009, pp. 67–84.
Kniehauer, Isabella / Krakau, Uwe (2009): Between start-up awareness and business plan - presentation and merging of two exemplary projects for the development of entrepreneurial competence, in: Wirtschaft und Erziehungs, Heft 5, 2009, pp 147–155.
Zaib, Volker (2009): New brooms sweep well. The successful integration of specialist staff for media and information services into the archival landscape of North Rhine-Westphalia, in: Archivar, vol. 62, issue 2, 2009, pp. 61–65.
Stork, Jan Hendrik (2011): Linking commercial and mathematical skills in the learning field concept at the beginning of training in retail (PDF; 237 kB), in: bwp @, edition 20, 2011.
Krakau, Uwe (2011): Changes in school curriculum work: Implementing learning fields in schools (PDF; 1.2 MB), in: bwp @ Spezial 5, 2011.
Brünger, Sarah / Zaib, Volker (2013): FaMI as a successful model. FaMI trainees from NRW together at the German Archive Day 2012 in Cologne, in: Archivar, vol. 66, issue 2, pp. 183-185. ( [1] | pdf: Archivist, Vol. 66, Issue 2)
Zaib, Volker (2014): Preservation - also a topic for FAMIs, in: Archivpflege in Westfalen-Lippe, Issue 81, 2014, pp. 60–61.

Individual evidence

↑ School management on the school website

↑ Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the higher commercial school at the Karl Schiller Vocational College in Dortmund

↑ Information on the Individual Funding Seal of Approval ( Memento of the original from September 6, 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. of the Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia @1@ 2

↑ Information on literacy promotion (PDF; 11 kB) in the Karl Schiller Vocational College

↑ Information on career orientation in the Karl Schiller Vocational College

↑ Information on the award of the individual funding quality seal by the Ministry of Education and Training of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

↑ www.zukunftsschulen-nrw.de

↑ Information on honors from students of the Karl Schiller Vocational College

↑ Information on the BLK model test segel-bs ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2011 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. by the Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia @1@ 2

↑ Information on the aSE pilot project by the project sponsor

↑ Information on the Leonardo da Vinci project EUKONA by the Ministry for Schools and Further Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

↑ Information on the BMBF project ZUKKER ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2012 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. by the Leuphana University of Lüneburg @1@ 2

↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Information on the Graduate College for Business Education ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2011 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. by the University of Paderborn @1@ 2

^ Vocational training in North Rhine-Westphalia - training courses / training plans - training preparation (Appendix A). Retrieved August 21, 2019 .

↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 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. @1@ 2
↑ Home :: German Founder's Prize for Schoolchildren. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
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Web links

[1] School management on the school website

[2] Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the higher commercial school at the Karl Schiller Vocational College in Dortmund