Teacher room system
The teacher's room system (also called the teacher's room principle , teacher's room concept or cabinet system ) is a use of space in schools in which classrooms are not assigned to individual school classes (as classrooms ) but to teachers . The teacher room system offers teachers the opportunity to design their classroom not only according to the requirements of their respective subject , but also according to their personal ideas and wishes.
In some countries - such as the Netherlands and the United States - the teacher room system is the norm. In Germany, it has so far only been used in selected schools in individual federal states, for example in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
Advantages and disadvantages
The advantages are:
- In particular, the materials for free work can be collected by the teacher over the long term and also stored and prepared ready for use.
- Subject rooms can also be created for subjects other than the natural sciences, for example literature classes, reading and arithmetic support, foreign languages, etc.
- Various social forms adapted to the subject can be used without having to constantly change the furniture.
- With maps, pictures, rule boards, changing or permanent exhibitions, etc., the room can be designed individually and subject-specifically.
- The high annual maintenance costs for damage caused by vandalism are significantly reduced because the students are no longer unattended in the rooms. This money can then z. B. can be invested in better equipment for schools.
- More attractive rooms mean that students also feel more comfortable in the rooms and identify more with their school.
- Teachers have a workplace that they can also use outside of class, e.g. B. for class preparation and follow-up, for corrections or consultations.
- The teacher is responsible for the condition of the room. Perhaps a healthy competition arises as to who has the most appealing room. This makes learning locations more attractive.
- Equipping the rooms with sensitive objects, e.g. B. Projectors, PCs, interactive whiteboards etc. are worthwhile because there is no more damage from vandalizing students.
The disadvantages are:
Instead of letting the students stay unsupervised in the classes during the 5-minute breaks (since the teachers have to go to the next class), the students are “on the move” to the next teacher. The following problems can occur:
- Student crowds in motion
- possible chaos and high pollution in the hallways
- Carrying book bags
- Reduced identification of the pupils with the building (the school), as there are no longer any “separate” classrooms
- statistically increased probability of jumping lessons in the teacher's timetables by coupling the rooms to a higher number of people (teachers instead of classes)
- i. d. R. Discrimination against part-time teachers and subject room teachers, as these are later included in the plans
Experience confirms these fears only partially; however, only a few German schools use this system. Test runs at schools in NRW, e.g. B. Realschule in the school center Arnsberg-Sundern also initially convinced skeptical colleagues, who then decided by a large majority to continue the teacher room system.
The teacher room system in other countries
United States
- See also: United States School System , School Teachers # United States
In the United States , the teacher room system is the norm. The disadvantages of this system discussed in Germany hardly play a role in the USA, because in American schools e.g. B. There are strict rules of conduct that effectively prevent the students from running around in the hallways. Instead of the 45-minute intervals with chimes and 5-minute breaks, which are common in Germany, many American schools, especially elementary schools, have a flexible schedule that further prevents too many students from being out in the corridors at the same time. There is no need to carry heavy book bags during the school day because the students have individual lockers in the school hallway.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Cabinet" - bits. ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2007 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. Website of the Wilhelmine-Fliedner-Realschule, May 19, 2008
- ↑ Frank Mehnert, Christian Sund: The Cabinet System: When Schoolchildren Become Guests Hamburg macht Schule 2/2010, pp. 20–22
- ↑ Cabinet system website of the Hummelsbüttel grammar school, accessed on July 1, 2016
- ↑ Development of the cabinet system website of the Marion-Dönhoff-Gymnasium Mölln, accessed on July 1, 2016
