Steinhöfelschule
The Steinhöfelschule is a private , state-recognized vocational school in Mainz and Heidesheim am Rhein . The specialist focus is business.
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| School building Rheinallee 3 | |
| type of school | Vocational school |
| founding | 1895 |
| place | Mainz and Heidesheim am Rhein |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 0 ′ 29 " N , 8 ° 16 ′ 11" E |
| carrier | Veigel-Veigel partnership; Steinhöfelschule gGmbH |
| student | 300 |
| Teachers | 35 |
| management | Tina Veigel, Joachim Veigel |
| Website | https://www.steinhoefelschule.de |
history
Carl Friedrich Steinhöfel and his teacher August Rackow founded a private business school in Hamburg in 1883 . From Hamburg, Steinhöfel opened "Steinhöfels Handelsschule" in Frankfurt in 1895 . In 1924 his son Walther joined the company and ran it together with his father under the name “Private Handelsschule Dr. W. and C. Steinhöfel ”.
After Walther Steinhöfel fell in the war and his father died shortly afterwards, Carl Friedrich Steinhöfel's daughter Käthe Scheller took over the school. In the post-war turmoil, she fought to keep the school going and to continue the family heritage. Together with her husband Georg Scheller , later with the help of their daughter Edith Wessel and their son Gerd Scheller, she helped the school to achieve an economic upturn.
While her brother Gerd Scheller took over the management of the Frankfurt School, Edith Wessel founded the “Private Business School Dr. W. Steinhöfel ”based on the market square. In its first year the school in Mainz already had over 100 students. In the following years Edith Wessel developed the school into a respected educational institution.
In 1963 Wessel handed over the school management to Gerd Brück, the first headmaster who was not a descendant of Carl Steinhöfel. Brück directed the school for over 30 years until 1995. In the same year it was taken over by Lothar Fritsche, Joachim Veigel and Markus Kolb. Since the summer of 1998, the school has offered a new course, the higher vocational college with a focus on economics. In 2000 Markus Kolb left, which started a new era for the Steinhöfelschule.
The married couples Fritsche and Veigel occupied the central positions: Joachim Veigel took over the school management and Lothar Fritsche became his deputy. Tina Veigel ran the school office and Annelie Fritsche was responsible for looking after the students. Under the new sponsorship, the modernization of the listed building on Rheinallee was pushed ahead. A virtual upgrade has also been made: the Steinhöfelschule has been operating its first web-based learning platform since 2001, followed by the first “notebook class” in 2006.
In the 2007/2008 school year, Berufsoberschule II was officially recognized as a further course at the Steinhöfelschule.
2014 expanded the Steinhoefel school: Joachim Veigel and Tina Veigel took over from Albert Lax , founded in 1953, state-approved, private business school Dr. Lax in Bingen . After a year the school moved into the building of the old Mühlschule in Heidesheim am Rhein. In August 2017, the first state-approved class of the Steinhöfelschule business school began there . Campus Heidesheim: ⊙
In July 2018, the school authority and deputy headmaster Lothar Fritsche retired. He transferred his shares to Tina Veigel. Joachim Veigel and Tina Veigel have been running the schools in Mainz and Heidesheim together since 2018.
The couple works actively in the regional association RLP and in the umbrella organization of the Association of German Private School Associations. V. (VDP ) with. Tina Veigel has also been a member of the federal executive committee there since November 2016. Joachim Veigel is also involved as a treasurer in the association of teachers at business schools Landesverband Rheinland-Pfalz e. V.
On April 1, 2020, the Steinhöfelschule celebrated its 125th anniversary.
In June 2020, the Steinhöfelschule received the certificate from the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Education about the state recognition of the "Wirtschaftsgymnasium" course introduced in 2017.
School size | School development
At the beginning of the Veigel-Fritsche partnership in 1996, the number of students was around 120, and it has increased continuously since then. In the school year 2018/2019 around 300 pupils attended the Steinhöfelschule, which were taught by 34 teachers. The opening of the second location in Heidesheim in 2015 was a positive factor influencing the size of the school. Most of the students live in Mainz, the Mainz-Bingen district or nearby Hessian communities.
Since the 2017/2018 school year, the Steinhöfelschule has offered the following courses:
- Vocational School I
- Vocational School II
- Higher Vocational School
- Dual vocational school (part-time)
- Vocational School II
- Business high school
additional offers
The Steinhöfelschule was a certified TOEIC test center in the 2018/2019 school year . In addition, the school was started in 2016 by the European Union-funded Erasmus + program. Since then, the Steinhöfelschule has offered its students the opportunity to do internships in English-speaking countries.
The pupils at the Steinhöfelschule also take part in the Startup @ School project sponsored by the IHK for Rheinhessen .
In the school year 2018/2019 the Steinhöfelschule organized the "Education League" under the patronage of District Administrator Dorothea Schäfer. Students from the Mainz-Bingen district and the city of Mainz had the opportunity to compete against each other in a knowledge duel using a smartphone app and to prove their knowledge.
Educational work
As a privately owned school, the Steinhöfelschule is committed to the constitutional right to the parents' free choice of school, as stipulated in Article 7 of the Basic Law , in particular with regard to educational concepts.
The Steinhöfelschule offers its students a family environment. Small classes and committed teachers who act as trainers, learning guides, treasure hunters, motivators, structuring agents, advisors and imparting knowledge are decisive for this learning situation. In order to offer every student the right care for their individual learning needs, they accompany their students both in class and outside of regular class time. With a clearly structured advisory and support concept, all subject teachers give feedback at regular intervals, which is then passed on to the students by the personal supervisor.
Furthermore, the Steinhöfelschule is convinced that clear rules and structures serve the development of motivation. Students are therefore expected to understand that successful collaboration is based on the concept of a balanced give-and-take and that learning relationships cannot take place one-sided. The students should be raised to be people who are ready to take responsibility for their own actions and foresee the consequences of their own actions and who actively contribute themselves.
Media concept
The Steinhöfelschule pursues the goal of imparting media skills to the students during their school days . The focus of the work is on computers and the Internet. The media concept is based on Hans-Dieter Kübler's approach. The focus is on the following educational areas:
- Education in the field of media studies and media use includes the knowledge of the sensible use of the media (informative component) as well as the acquisition of the ability to use the media (instrumental - qualification component)
- Education in media design includes the acquisition of the skills to deal with media creatively and innovatively
- Education in media criticism includes the ability to question whether the use of the respective medium makes sense and is economical and to get to know the medium as such with its advantages and disadvantages. In addition, a critical handling of the possibilities of manipulation through the media should be learned and practiced.
- Education in communication through media as a natural routine.
In order to give students the opportunity to receive this form of education, it is necessary that teachers also rethink. In order to give the teachers access to the computer medium, external conditions were created on the one hand (see technical equipment), but on the other hand further training events were held in regular team meetings, in which the colleagues continuously train themselves.
Technical Equipment
The Steinhöfelschule uses IT technologies in the classroom at both locations. The classrooms are regularly upgraded according to the technical standards. In the 2018/2019 school year, six notebook classes were taught at the Steinhöfelschule. The students in the notebook classes take their tablet PCs, provided by the school, home with them after class. Several sets of laptops are available for the other students.
Cooperations
The Steinhöfelschule has IHK educational partnerships with various regional companies. The focus of the partnerships is on imparting practical knowledge to the students. These are implemented through visits to the various company areas or workshops, for example on the subject of job applications.
Achievements and Awards
- 2019:
- "Smart School" by Bitkom e. V.
- "Digital School" awarded by MINT Zukunft e. V.
- 2016: Role model of further education, category innovative company for the affiliated Mainz study center
- 2015: Microsoft Expert Educator / Showcase School
- 2005: Comenius seal
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Head of the Steinhöfelschule, Lothar Fritsche, retired. In: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz. June 7, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2019 (German).
- ^ The board of directors of the VDP. Retrieved on August 20, 2019 (German).
- ↑ District board of the left-wing Rheinhessen district. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Torben Schröder: Mainzer Steinhöfelschule celebrates 125 years of existence. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. June 15, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Steinhöfelschule: Staatl. Recognition of the commercial high school. June 9, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Student internships abroad. In: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz. September 5, 2017, accessed on August 20, 2019 (German).
- ↑ startup @ school. In: IHK for Rheinhessen. Retrieved on August 20, 2019 (German).
- ^ Markus Schug: Private school in Mainz: Knowledge duels without printing grades . Ed .: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. ( faz.net [accessed August 21, 2019]).
- ^ Beate Schwenk: Education initiative of the Steinhöfelschule in Mainz-Bingen. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, Art. 7. In: Laws on the Internet. Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, accessed on August 20, 2019 (German).
- ^ Hans-Dieter Kübler: Media Competence - Dimensions of a Keyword . In: Schell, F./Stolzenburg, E./Theunert, H. (Ed.): Medienkompetenz . kopaed, Munich 1999, p. 25-47 .
- ↑ Smart School 2019 competition - These are the winning schools! Bitkom e. V., accessed on August 20, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Petra Jung: Where cell phones are parked in garages: Steinhöfelschule is now “Smart School”. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Steinhöfelschule Heidesheim awarded for digital concept. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ^ Benjamin Gesing: Award "MINT-friendly schools" and "Digital schools" in Rhineland-Palatinate 2019. September 2, 2019, accessed on September 11, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Mainzer Studienhaus receives honorary award from the German Continuing Education Day 2016. Accessed on August 21, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Microsoft Showcase Schools and Expert Educators 2015/2016 selected. In: bildungsklick.de. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Microsoft Education Team: A Success Story: The Steinhöfel School in Mainz. In: Microsoft industry blogs. May 14, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2019 (German).
- ^ Institute for Education and Media of the Society for Pedagogy and Information eV: Press release 16.06. 2005 / 06/29/2005. Retrieved on August 21, 2019 (German).