Teach First Germany
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| legal form | profit company |
| founding | August 20, 2007 (as eV), October 23, 2008 (gGmbH) |
| Seat | Berlin |
| motto | Passionate about education |
| main emphasis | Education |
| method | Posting of university graduates |
| Action space | Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein |
| sales | 2,034,259 euros (2018) |
| Employees | about 50 |
| Volunteers | 216 fellows |
| Website | teachfirst.de |
Teach First Germany (freely translated: 'teach first') is a non-profit education initiative with the aim of improving equal opportunities in education . For this purpose, university graduates from all fields of study work for two years at schools in “socially disadvantaged areas” in and outside of class as additional staff and support pupils particularly with the transition between school types and with qualifications. The carrier is the Teach First Germany non-profit GmbH based in Berlin. The idea comes from the US organization Teach For America . Teach First Germany is part of the international Teach for All network.
concept
In Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein, as of September 2017, around 130 university graduates from various fields of study have been teaching for two years as temporary teachers (so-called fellows ) at main, real and comprehensive schools in “socially disadvantaged areas”. As additional staff, they are intended to strengthen the schools' opportunities for targeted support for pupils.
Interested schools apply to Teach First Germany to participate in the program. The participating federal states pay at least 1,850 euros per month for the remuneration of each fellow. Before their assignment, the fellows complete a preparatory program, and during their assignment at the schools they are accompanied and trained by Teach First Deutschland.
The medium-term goal is to improve the educational performance of schoolchildren. The Fellows strengthen the capacities of the schools and, through their involvement in the classroom, enable classes to be taught by a teacher and a Fellow (team teaching) or split groups become possible. Outside of class, Fellows offer learning and support from student companies to learning clubs and student-run sports clubs. In the long term, former Fellows are to become "educational ambassadors" in different social positions who continue to work for more educational justice and the concerns of schoolchildren.
Program effect
The federal states involved rate the fellows' commitment as positive. The same applies to the school management: 82 percent give the fellows the best grade in a professional assessment.
An independent scientific report also gives the program a positive rating:
“Fellows are a great help to schools. The results are impressive in their positivity for the Teach First Germany project. Fellows are universally accepted and are rated positively with regard to all relevant criteria by the school management, the teaching staff and the students. Your commitment is also positive for the learning progress of the students in the assessments of all. They don't compete with teachers, but relieve them because they take on tasks that schools don't have the time to do. "
history
Teach First Germany was founded in 2007 as an association in Berlin. The Bosch , Hertie , Vodafone and Zeit foundations provided an initial financial basis. In addition, the program is supported by Deutsche Post , the Fritz Henkel Foundation, Germany rounds up and Aqtivator as well as other companies, foundations and private individuals. In the meantime, organizations such as Lanxess , the Manfred Lautenschläger Foundation , Lufthansa , the Robert Bosch Foundation, Siemens and McKinsey & Company were among the supporters. While the salaries of the fellows are paid by the federal states and municipalities, the organization's costs for recruiting, selection and support are covered by fundraising from foundations and private donors.
In June 2017, the non-profit GmbH had 31 employees. These are supported by volunteers in committees and at universities (so-called talent scouts ).
Teach First Germany is a sister initiative of the British Teach First and the American Teach For America . Together with them, Teach First Germany is a member of the Teach For All network , which, in addition to Teach First Germany, includes 55 independent country organizations. These include:
| Afghanistan: Teach For Afghanistan | Argentina: Enseñá por Argentina | Armenia: Teach For Armenia |
| Australia: Teach For Australia | Bangladesh: Teach For Bangladesh | Belgium: Teach For Belgium |
| Brazil: Ensina Brasil | Bulgaria: Teach For Bulgaria | Chile: Enseña Chile |
| China: Teach For China (chin. 中国 教育 行动) | Denmark: Teach First Danmark | Ecuador: Enseña Ecuador |
| Estonia: Noored Kooli | Germany: Teach First Germany | France: Le Choix de l'école |
| Ghana: Lead For Ghana | UK: Teach First | Haiti: Anseye Pou Ayiti |
| India: Teach For India | Israel: Teach First Israel | Italy: Teach For Italy |
| Japan: Teach For Japan | Cambodia: Teach For Cambodia | Kenya: Teach For Kenya |
| Colombia: Enseña por Colombia | Latvia: Iespējamā Misija | Lebanon: Teach For Lebanon |
| Liberia: Teach For Liberia | Lithuania: Renkuosi Mokyti! | Malaysia: Teach For Malaysia |
| Morocco: Teach For Morocco | Mexico: Enseña por México | Nepal: Teach for Nepal |
| New Zealand: Ako Mātātupu: Teach First NZ | Nigeria: Teach For Nigeria | Austria: Teach For Austria |
| Pakistan: Teach For Pakistan | Panama: Enseña por Panamá | Paraguay: Enseña por Paraguay |
| Peru: EnseñaPerú | Philippines: Teach For The Philippines | Portugal: Teach For Portugal |
| Qatar: Teach For Qatar | Romania: Teach For Romania | Sweden: Teach For Sweden |
| Sierra Leone: Teach For Sierra Leone | Slovakia: Teach For Slovakia | Spain: Empieza por Educar |
| Tanzania: Teach For Tanzania | Thailand: Teach For Thailand | Uganda: Teach For Uganda |
| Ukraine: Teach For Ukraine | Uruguay: Enseña Uruguay | United States: Teach For America |
| Vietnam: Teach For Vietnam | Zimbabwe: Teach For Zimbabwe |
criticism
Representatives of the state association of Hessen of the teachers' union GEW criticized the project at the beginning: Jens Wernicke explains that “it is not about questioning the tripartite school system , but, on the contrary, about making it seemingly“ fair ”. .. ". He further claims that “selectivity and disadvantage [...] will not be eliminated by this project, but at most compensated for in individual cases”. Wernicke also accuses Teach First Germany that it is a matter of "increasing the marketing of continuing education".
Christoph Baumann (also GEW Hessen) points out that the fellows should be paid from the school's budget. Teach First Germany only pays for the three-month training. This leads to regular jobs being cut, as the fellows, with gross earnings of € 1,700, are cheaper than normally paid teachers. Baumann also points to criticism in the United States, where John Wilson (National Education Association teachers' union) says that while Teach For America did an excellent job promoting the program, what it does to the children is unscrupulous ("done a marvelous job of marketing their program and branding their program - you cannot take away from their business model. But what they're doing to poor children is malpractice ").
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Ministry of Culture of Baden-Württemberg from July 1, 2010
- ↑ Outstanding university graduates teach in socially disadvantaged areas. Press release. In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Science and Research, October 22, 2008, accessed on November 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Report of a fellow (PDF; 6.1 MB) in: Hamburg macht Schule - magazine for Hamburg teachers and parents' councils 04/2009
- ^ Press release of the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia from February 3, 2009
- ^ Educational initiative Teach First in Lobeda: Six questions to fellow Bastian Stein. (No longer available online.) In: jenapolis.de. February 10, 2011, archived from the original on April 13, 2011 ; accessed on May 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Homepage Teach First Germany, information for schools
- ^ "Teach First": Berlin Senate praises the use of assistants in schools. In: www.bildungsklick.de. January 4, 2010, accessed March 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Minister Löhrmann: The commitment and commitment of the Teach First Fellows are of benefit to our schools. In: press release. Ministry for Schools and Further Education North Rhine-Westphalia, February 1, 2013, accessed on March 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Hamburg: Education Senator Götsch impressed by Teach First Deutschland, Hamburger Abendblatt from May 12, 2009
- ↑ Marion Schick: The start was extremely successful - Fellows are a great asset for schools. In: Kultusportal Baden-Württemberg. Ministry for Culture, Youth and Sport Baden-Württemberg, December 21, 2010, accessed on March 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Rainer Dollase : Evaluation of the Teach First Deutschland Fellows - Final Report February 2011. (PDF; 855 kB) Expert opinion. In: teachfirst.de. February 2011, p. 3 , archived from the original on November 10, 2012 ; accessed on April 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Rainer Dollase : Evaluation of the Teach First Deutschland Fellows - Final Report February 2011. (PDF; 855 kB) Expert opinion. In: teachfirst.de. February 2011, p. 5 , archived from the original on November 10, 2012 ; accessed on April 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Make it possible - teachfirst.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 6, 2017 ; accessed on June 9, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The team. In: teachfirst.de. 2017, archived from the original on June 6, 2017 ; Retrieved on October 12, 2017 (The original page is continuously updated. The number of employees specified in the article corresponds to the status of the archive date on web.archive.org.).
- ^ Teach For All Network Partners. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Jens Wernicke: Teach first and education , in: Journal of the GEW Hessen for upbringing, education, research, issue 1/2, Jan./Feb. 2010, p. 27
- ↑ Christoph Baumann: Teach First also in Hessen? , in: Journal of the GEW Hessen for upbringing, education, research, issue 5, May 2010, p. 18
- ↑ Teach For America: Elite corps or costing older teachers jobs? , USA Today , July 29, 2009 Translation: “Does an excellent job of marketing and promoting their programming, and their business model cannot be evaded. But what they do to the poor children is an offense. "
