State institute for the training of teachers in secondary schools

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The institute for teacher training, which is subordinate to the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , existed from 1958 to 1995 with its institute building in Munich-Pasing. It was decisive in the comprehensive training of teachers for all Bavarian secondary schools. After the decision of the Council of Ministers of December 20, 1994, to carry out the training of secondary school teachers analogous to the training of teachers at grammar schools, it was dissolved despite its proven advantages.

Function and tasks

The state institute acted as a central study seminar in which all Bavarian teacher training applicants spent 6 months at the state institute after the first state examination, depending on the length of the preparatory service, later 12 months. There it was possible to carry out standardized training by specially qualified teachers. This applied both to general education (pedagogy, psychology, political science) and to the didactics of the examination subjects. The shortcoming of the insufficient connection to the school practice could be compensated from 1981 by the introduction of weekly observations with accompanied teaching attempts of the student trainees in the Munich area. As a central study seminar, it was also possible to hold optional events such as education, social affairs, IT, school games, films, first aid training courses, etc. a. to offer. From 1988 the teachers published the series RLInformation with key topics relevant to education and training.

Management and teachers

The heads of the state institute, together with the examination office housed at the institute, also organized the written and oral exams for the second state examination, coordinated the cooperation with the seminar and deployment schools throughout Bavaria, organized service meetings for all those involved and were in association with the academy for Teacher training and personnel management Dillingen also proactively in the training of teachers and seminar teachers. In addition, most of the specialist didactics teachers wrote relevant textbooks, while some psychology and pedagogy teachers also wrote specialist works.

In 1958, Heinz Ritter was appointed as the first collegial leader from among the teaching staff for two years. Anton Oberhauser, Georg Keeser, Wolfram Hausmann, Franz Straßer, Harro Brack and Karl Häusler followed. In 1977, Erich Habler became the first director of the institute without a time limit and in the role of immediate superior. Ambros Brucker, who gave the institute new impetus since 1987, also had the task in 1995 of dissolving the institute, which he defended with energetic arguments.

Dissolution of the state institute

The state institute was repeatedly under pressure to justify itself, which it was always able to withstand. The Supreme Court of Auditors expressly certified it to be inexpensive and model character (for example in comparison with the high school training model). Hans Maier highlighted the RLI (in his address on the 25th anniversary of the institute):

"There is a good deal of high-quality work that is being done at this state institute, and it seems doubtful to me whether there is a cheaper, especially a more cost-effective model for the training of our secondary school teachers."

All the more remarkable is the political process that ultimately led to the dissolution of the state institute. It was initiated under the then Minister of State for the Interior, Edmund Stoiber , who wanted to move the authorities from the Bavarian capital to the countryside or the border area. In the course of these considerations, supported by the wish of the seminary schools for higher-paid posts, the question arose whether the state institute was still needed and whether it would not be much better to join the grammar school training model. In view of this, it was deprived of its previously widely vaunted privileged position. In this respect, the dissolution of the state institute can be attributed, in terms of institutional history, to cases in which political power structures cut institutional diversity and hinder social evolution.

Publications

  • Practice - deepen - apply. RLInformation 1, 4/1988.
  • Dealing with texts. RLInformation 2, 3/1989.
  • On the way to action-oriented teaching. RLInformation 3, 2/1990.
  • Realschule learning community. RLInformation 4, 2/1991.
  • Europe. RL information 5.

literature

  • Ambros Brucker: crime scene politics: execution of an institute. Private printing.
  • Pasinger Archive. Anniversary edition 1991, ed. vom Pasinger Archiv eV (in it: hostel for the count's joie de vivre and monastic passion: Die Gatterburg. pp. 4–24).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orh.bayern.de.
  2. ↑ The Bavarian Realschule. Book 1, p. 11, 1984.