Montessori High School Potsdam

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Montessori High School Potsdam
Comprehensive school.jpg
type of school Elementary and high school
founding 1961
address

Schlueterstrasse 2

place Potsdam
country Brandenburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 23 '20 "  N , 13 ° 0' 48"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '20 "  N , 13 ° 0' 48"  E
student about 460
management Sebastian Raphael
Website www.potsdam-montessori.de

The Montessori Oberschule Potsdam is a combined elementary and high school that emerged from a former polytechnic high school . It follows the Montessori pedagogy and is located in Potsdam near the Sanssouci Park .

School organization

In the school year 2008/2009, the combined school had 450 students from the federal states of Brandenburg and Berlin .

Ten grades are taught, so elementary and comprehensive school are integrated.

Outside the high school

The pedagogical basis is the Montessori education . As a special educational concept, the students in the seventh and eighth grades are not given any homework, but instead have to give regular lectures. As usual at elementary and comprehensive schools, there are afternoon working groups. In school, students only wear their slippers. The Montessori-Oberschule Potsdam is a member school of the school association Blick über den Zaun .

Art offer

timeline

The Karl-Liebknecht-Oberschule , the predecessor of the Montessori-Oberschule, was built from 1957 to 1961. The number of pupils reached almost 1000 at the time. In 1973 , classes with extended Russian lessons from the third grade were established.

The former polytechnic high school was converted into a combined elementary and comprehensive school after the fall of the Wall and, with the teaching staff being largely taken over, made a further change towards Montessori education . In 2000 the school was renamed Montessori Oberschule Potsdam.

In the 2004/2005 school year, the school took part in the denkmal-aktiv project of the German Foundation for Monument Protection . As part of this project, the students dealt with the concept of cultural heritage in an interdisciplinary manner (art, humanities, natural sciences, German). They were actively involved in the process of restoring the marble sculptures in the Sanssouci Palace Park.

In December 2007 the Oberschule was one of the winners of the German School Prize . Since 2008 there has been a large citizen solar system on the roof of the school. The school is a member of the school association 'View over the fence' .

Exchange programs

The Montessori Oberschule Potsdam has two exchange programs: a French-German program and an English-German program.

The school has an exchange program with the Franciscan Montessori Earth School / Saint Francis Academy in Portland , Oregon , USA . The last exchange took place in October 2009. The German students drove to Portland. And in April 2010 the American exchange students will come to Potsdam.

The Franco-German exchange has existed longer than the one mentioned above. The Germans go to boarding school in France. You stay there for three months. The French come to their partners for a return visit and stay there for two weeks, during which they attend their partners' classes.

literature

  • Jan Hofmann (ed.): New forms of teaching and learning. Assessment of performance without grades and cross-year classes at the Montessori Comprehensive School in Potsdam. Julius Klinkhardt Verlag, Bad Heilbrunn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7815-1545-1 .
  • Ulrike Kegler, Annedore Prengel: The Montessori Comprehensive School in Potsdam. Further development of a reform concept. Julius Klinkhardt Verlag, Bad Heilbrunn 2003, ISBN 3-7815-1293-2 .
  • Ulrike Kegler: School development and stubbornness. The Montessori Comprehensive School, Potsdam. In: Reinhard Voss: We are reinventing schools. Learning-centered pedagogy in schools and teacher training. Weinheim and Basel, Beltz Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3-407-25432-0 , pp. 182-190.
  • Ulrike Kegler: We will learn differently in the future. When school is nice. 1st edition. Weinheim and Basel, Beltz Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-407-85878-8 .

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