Theo Koch School Grünberg

Theo Koch School
type of school	Integrated comprehensive school with upper secondary level
founding	1970
place	Grünberg (Hesse)
country	Hesse
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 35 ′ 29 ″ N , 8 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ E
student	1450
Teachers	150
management	Jörg Keller, Andreas Jorde
Website	official website

Music cubes and cafeteria of the Theo Koch School Grünberg

The Theo Koch School Grünberg ( TKS for short ) is an integrated comprehensive school with upper secondary school and all-day courses in Grünberg (Hesse) in the district of Gießen .

The school was mentioned for the first time in 1806 and was founded as an expanded elementary school out of the Latin and City School. It is named after the ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grünberg (1872–1924), an important Brazilian researcher who came from Grünberg.

history

In 1956, the Theo Koch School on Schulstrasse (today the “Grundschule am Diebsturm ”) got its name as a grammar school . In 1962 the Central School Association was founded with the intention of building a central school. For the construction of the school, which is called the “forest school” by the people of Grünberg, some spruce trees had to give way so that an area of 37,000 m² could be made available.

With the headmaster Amadori, the new central school in Struppiusstraße outside the city of Grünberg finally started operations in December 1966. With a catchment area of a total of 18 communities, around 900 pupils attended the new secondary and secondary school in the year of inauguration.

In 1970 the central school was merged with the grammar school to form an integrated comprehensive school . Robert Maushagen was given the task of running the school in 1971. With the inauguration of an extension in 1973, the new comprehensive school was named “Theo Koch School”.

Since the school year 2005/2006 there are, in addition to grades 5 to 8 of the integrated comprehensive school, graduation-related classes in grades 9 and 10. B. in NaWi (natural science) or language classes, which offer additional lessons in the respective focal points and thus offer the students a special qualification.

Two new buildings were inaugurated in 2017. A new auditorium, which is equipped with the latest stage technology, and the "House G", in which all-day classes are accommodated.

General

The school is the largest in the Giessen district . Number of pupils: In the school year 2012/13 around 1640, of which:

5th grade: 175
6th grade: 212
Years 7-10: 850
Upper secondary level: 390 (60% from own intermediate level, 40% from neighboring schools)

(80% from the larger community of Grünberg, 20% from neighboring school districts)

The teaching staff consists of 142 colleagues. The school has been run by Jörg Keller since the beginning of the 2012/2013 school year; Andreas Jorde acts as deputy. The upper level is currently headed by Marcel Jochim. The TKS was one of the first Hessian schools to introduce the subject of " performing games " as an alternative to art or music in the upper level. One of the special features is that the subject “ Economics ” can be taken as an elective and advanced course in addition to computer science.

In the 2011/12 school year, the school was one of the few Hessian schools to offer both a school-specific, extended version of You start IT (age group 6) and the European Computer Driving License (age group 9 and 10 in the secondary school area, as an AG in the gymnasiale Area) and computer science in lower secondary level with an internal school curriculum based on the work of the Gesellschaft für Informatik .

Initiatives

" School without Racism - School with Courage "
Support association
Alumni Association Theo Koch School Grünberg eV
Participation in " schools on the network "
Several scientific projects such as B. Jugend forscht and MINT-EC ( MINT subjects )
" Balu and you "

Known students

Harald Lesch , professor of astrophysics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
Frauke Eigen , well-known photographer and artist
Werner Baach , Colonel a. D., formerly deputy head and spokesman in the information and press staff of the Federal Ministry of Defense , then deputy head of the military policy department and spokesman in the Defense Review Committee at the Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to NATO (Brussels); since 2004 freelance journalist and representative for press and public relations for the Clausewitz Society

Web links

School website

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ralf Augsburg: All-day classes on campus: Theo Koch School. Federal Ministry of Education and Research, February 1, 2019, accessed on February 6, 2019 .
↑ http://www.giessener-allgemeine.de/Home/Kreis/Staedte-und-Gemeinden/Gruenberg/Artikel,-Joerg-Keller-neuer-Leiter-der-Theo-Koch-Schule-Gruenberg-_arid,360691_regid, 1_puid, 1_pageid, 45.html
↑ ^a ^b school management. In: Theo Koch School. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .
↑ http://www.giessener-zeitung.de/gruenberg/beitrag/54752/theo-koch-schule-erweitert-edv-und-informatik-angebote/

[BMBF-1] Ralf Augsburg: All-day classes on campus: Theo Koch School. Federal Ministry of Education and Research, February 1, 2019, accessed on February 6, 2019 .

[2] ttp://www.giessener-allgemeine.de/Home/Kreis/Staedte-und-Gemeinden/Gruenberg/Artikel,-Joerg-Keller-neuer-Leiter-der-Theo-Koch-Schule-Gruenberg-_arid,360691_regid, 1_puid, 1_pageid, 45.html

[leitung-3] school management. In: Theo Koch School. Retrieved February 6, 2019 .

[4] ttp://www.giessener-zeitung.de/gruenberg/beitrag/54752/theo-koch-schule-erweitert-edv-und-informatik-angebote/