Rainer Schweppe

Rainer Schweppe (2013)

Rainer Schweppe (* 8. February 1954 in Lübbecke ) conducts in Berlin for the Senate education administration as an external consultant, the Technical Working Group on Education Area Quality.

Many cities across Germany have taken his model of the open all-day school in Herford as a model.

Professional background

After completing his administration training, he graduated from the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Administration Academy with a degree in "Administration (FH)". Later he became department head in the social welfare office of the city of Herford, disability officer ( staff position ) of the city of Herford and department head of education in the city of Herford. He is a representative of the municipal umbrella organizations in the working group "Equal Opportunities through Education" at the Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth .

Until the end of June 2016, he headed the Department for Education and Sport (formerly: School and Culture Department) of the City of Munich , the largest department of the City of Munich, both financially and personally.

Schweppe is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Stahlgruber Foundation and the Museum Education Center , member of the board of trustees of the Otto Falckenberg School , member of the supervisory board of the Munich Adult Education Center , he was chairman of the jury for the Munich School Prize and is a member of the jury for the German School Prize .

Since September 2016 he has headed the school room quality specialist working group in Berlin as an external consultant for the Senate Education Administration.

Open all-day school model

Schweppe's model of the open all-day school not only provides that the children are also looked after in the afternoons, but it also combines an educational concept. For example, there is no 45-minute rhythm in the Herford schools, but a 90-minute rhythm. As a result, the lessons have changed, says Schweppe, because neither teachers nor students can withstand 90 minutes of frontal teaching. The teachers have become more open to more free forms of teaching and have also received the freedom from the city to organize their lessons individually. However, this is not a novelty, as the freedom to organize lessons is already laid down in the teaching regulations of the City of Munich (M / LLDO) and the Free State of Bavaria (LDO). Another achievement by Schweppes was the implementation of completely new classroom concepts. He thought about what the rooms in a school should look like so that children feel comfortable there all day long. Some schools have been rebuilt according to the ideas of the Paderborn school teacher Wilfried Buddensiek : Four classrooms are arranged around a forum and can be seen through high windows. Each classroom has its own toilet. There are niches in which small groups can withdraw. Pedagogy played the most important role in the expansion of schools into all-day schools or schools with all-day offers, including the fundamental structural redesign of the schools. For this reason, the city of Herford entitled the model with the words "From pedagogy to space - from space to pedagogy".

Planning in Munich

In Munich, too, the further expansion of all-day care - both in the crèches and in all types of schools - is one of Schweppe's priorities in order to counteract the existing plight of parents in these areas. With 120 municipal schools, Munich has the largest municipal school system in Germany. According to the Munich Education Report 2010, there is a close connection between social origin and education in Munich. Children with well-paid parents who care about education have the best chance of going to high school. For Schweppe this is a “blatant injustice”. In the interests of equal opportunities, it is important to support all children, says Schweppe. He sees a key in all-day schools, where talented and less talented students can be promoted equally.

The learning house concept

In Munich, Rainer Schweppe developed and implemented the “ Munich Learning House Concept ”, a spatial, school and personnel organizational concept for building schools. In 2017, the State of Berlin presented a similar concept under the name "Berlin Learning and Team House".

Awards

• 2006: Political Award of the Primary School Association
• 2008: School building award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia

Publications

• From pedagogy to space - from space to pedagogy. In: On the way to all-day elementary school. 2006, ISBN 3-930024-93-4 .
• Room design in the open all-day primary school. In: der stadtetag, magazine for local politics and practice. Issue 1/2006, ISBN 3-452-26249-9 .
• All day room - “From pedagogy to room - from room to pedagogy”. In: Paderborn contributions to teaching research and teacher training - rethinking elementary schools. 2006, ISBN 978-3-03735-956-3 .
• Room in Herford all-day: From pedagogy to room - from room to pedagogy. In: All-day as a municipal design task - a practical report from North Rhine-Westphalia. 2008, ISBN 3-9810519-2-0 .
• Quality criteria and standards for school rooms in secondary level I using the example of the city of Herford. In: The full day in lower secondary level 2009.
• The Munich learning house - opportunities for everyone. In: Städtetag aktuell. Edition 10/2014, ISSN  2193-5491 .
• Rainer Schweppe, Wolfgang Brehmer: Educational planning and urban development in Munich. In: Education as a building block. Springer-Verlag, 2015.

Personal

Rainer Schweppe is married and has four children, two daughters from a first marriage and two sons from a second marriage.

Web links

Commons : Rainer Schweppe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Rainer Schweppe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Room in the whole day from Rainer Schweppe in "Rethinking Elementary Schools", ISBN 978-3-8258-1093-1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Florentine Anders: This is what the classroom of the future will look like. Morgenpost.de, accessed on September 27, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Eva Baier: An hour of 90 minutes. Sueddeutsche.de, June 30, 2010, accessed on August 24, 2016.
3. ↑ From pedagogy to space - from space to pedagogy. Adz-netzwerk.de ( Memento from March 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ The Department for Education and Sport. Muenchen.de.
5. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Münchner Bildungsbericht 2010. (PDF), Muenchen.de. )
6. ↑ ^{a b c} New City School Council: Hello, I'm the new one. Abendzeitung.de, June 30, 2010, accessed on August 24, 2016.
7. ↑ Munich learning house concept. Ganztag-muenchen.de.
8. ↑ classroom quality. June 5, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 .