State European School Berlin

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The State European School Berlin ( SESB for short ) is a language-based, state school form with a special pedagogical character in Berlin . It was founded in 1992 and today comprises 33 locations in primary and secondary schools with around 7,000 students.

history

In view of the increasing internationalization of Berlin (accelerated after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989), parents' associations (supported by the Europa-Union Deutschland ) began to advertise the opening of a European-oriented school type in the 1980s. The aim was to promote European linguistic diversity through new educational concepts and forms of learning. The SESB was founded in 1992 with three language branches (German-French, German-English, German-Russian) as a school trial and in 2011 was recognized as a “school with a special pedagogical character” as part of the Berlin school landscape.

A new location was opened in the 2017/18 and 2018/19 school years.

In its coalition agreement for the legislative period from 2016 to 2021, the government coalition of the State of Berlin agreed on the further expansion of the SESB. According to the coalition agreement, the "successful offer of the Staatliche Europaschule Berlin [...] will be expanded in line with demand on the basis of the evaluation, and attention will be paid to the fact that locations in the eastern districts are also set up".

concept

The SESB offers bilingual education for all Berlin children from the first grade to the Abitur and is bound to the Berlin framework curriculum. It combines language acquisition through the concept of dual immersion with the aim of functioning as an intercultural encounter school. The special feature of this type of school is the tripartite principle of parity:

  • Parity of the lesson tables: The proportion of German-language and partner-language lessons is each 50% of the timetable.
  • Parity of employees: The lessons are taught by teachers and educators in their respective mother tongue, with the students being taught in the subjects German and their first foreign language (i.e. their partner language) up to the 9th grade in small groups (typically 12 students).
  • Parity of the student body: The students come from monolingual German-speaking, purely foreign-language or bilingual families and after the six years of primary school in Berlin acquire the middle school leaving certificate (MSA) after the 10th grade or after 12 or 13 years the Abitur at an integrated secondary school ( ISS) or a high school . The Abitur also certifies the highest level of language proficiency C2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages . From the 5th grade onwards, students acquire another foreign language, English (the third foreign language in the German-English language branch is French).

The following partner languages ​​are offered within the SESB (as of May 2018): English, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish.

SESB sites are housed in regular state schools where they make up one to three trains. Formally, the respective districts are the school authorities, while the Senate is responsible for the conception, the legal framework and the selection and recruitment of staff. In addition, foreign language teachers are deployed and financed by the respective partner countries at many SESB locations.

Evaluation of the SESB

After about 25 years, the SESB was evaluated in 2016 by the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development on behalf of the Mercator Institute for Linguistic Research. The study shows that the dual immersion according to the SESB model is a way to additive bilingualism with successful integration without performance deficits in the subjects. The partner language is learned through continuous bilingual lessons at an internationally competitive level. They learn the German national language at least as well as students of the same age from regular classes. Another foreign language is learned faster than with regular schoolchildren. The performance development in the subjects is not affected. In addition, the learning competence of the SESB promotes social and intercultural competence and European understanding. Thus, in this type of school, the integration of children from linguistic and cultural minority groups succeeds better than in other mainstream schools.

Locations

Overview of all SESB locations:

German English

  • Charles Dickens Elementary School
  • Quentin Blake Elementary School
  • Galileo Elementary School
  • Peter Ustinov School (ISS)
  • Hans Litten School (OSZ Law and Economics)
  • Schiller-Gymnasium Berlin

German French

  • Primary school on Arkonaplatz
  • Judith Kerr Elementary School
  • Märkische elementary school
  • Rainbow School (Elementary School)
  • Georg von Giesche School (ISS)
  • Sophie Scholl School (ISS)

German-Greek

German Italian

German Polish

German-Portuguese

  • Elementary school Neues Tor
  • Kurt Schwitters School (ISS)

German Russian

  • Elementary school at the Brandenburg Gate
  • Lev Tolstoy Elementary School
  • Mildred Harnack School (ISS)

German Spanish

  • Hausburg primary school
  • Joan Miró Primary School
  • Lemgo primary school
  • Albrecht von Graefe School (ISS)
  • Friedensburg School (ISS)

German Turkish

  • Aziz Nesin Elementary School
  • Carl von Ossietzky School (ISS)

literature

Books

  • J. Möller, F. Hohenstein, J. Fleckenstein, O. Köller and J. Baumert (eds.): Integrating successfully - State European School Berlin. Waxmann, Münster 2015, ISBN 3830935773 .
  • Rita Zellerhoff: Didactics of multilingualism. Didactic concepts to promote multilingualism in children and young people . Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58569-6 .

Magazines and other publications

  • J. Fleckenstein, J. Möller and J. Baumert: Multilingualism as a Resource: Competencies of dual-immersively taught pupils in the third language English. In: Journal for Educational Science. Volume 21, No. 1, 2018, pp. 97-120. doi : 10.1007 / s11618-017-0792-9
  • Berlin House of Representatives: Extension of the offer of the State European School Berlin (SESB) with the beginning of the school year 1993/94. Printed matter 12/273. Berlin 1993.
  • S. Gräfe-Bentzien: Evaluation of bilingual language skills: A pilot study on the development of German and Italian language skills in the primary level during the school trial of the State European School Berlin (SESB). Dissertation, Free University of Berlin, 2001.
  • B. Schumacher: Model of a bilingual school for encounter: The State European School Berlin. In: P. Doyé (Ed.): Core issues of foreign language teaching in primary schools. Westermann, Braunschweig 2005, pp. 216-231.
  • Senate Department for Education, Youth and Science: Establishment decree for the State European School Berlin (SESB) as a school with a special pedagogical character (framework specifications). Berlin 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c State Europe School Berlin. In: www.berlin.de/sen/bildung. Retrieved May 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ J. Möller, F. Hohenstein, J. Fleckenstein, O. Köller and Baumert, J. (Eds.): Successfully integrate - State European School Berlin . Waxmann, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-8309-3577-3 .
  3. ↑ J. Möller, F. Hohenstein, J. Fleckenstein, O. Köller, J. Baumert (Eds.): Successfully integrate - State European School Berlin . Waxmann, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-8309-3577-3 .
  4. ↑ The Governing Mayor of Berlin (ed.): Berlin Gestalten - Solidarisch.Nachhaltig.Weltoffen. Coalition Agreement 2016-2021 . Printed matter, Berlin 2016, p. 18 .
  5. ↑ The Mercator Institute for Language Promotion and German as a Second Language - Home. Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
  6. ^ J. Möller, F. Hohenstein, J. Fleckenstein, O. Köller and J. Baumert (eds.): Successfully integrate - State European School Berlin . Waxmann, Münster, ISBN 978-3-8309-3577-3 .