University School (Bavaria)

A university school (also known as a “university school”) is a public school in Bavaria that works particularly closely with the university in the context of the training of pedagogues ( teacher training ).

University schools in Bavaria

In Bavaria, the concept of the university school was introduced in March 2009 in the Bavarian state parliament through a government declaration by the Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs Ludwig Spaenle . At the university school, “the university and the reality of the school enter into a productive connection” in order to “achieve an optimal network of studies and school, theory and practice in the first and second phases of teacher training”. At the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , a concept for the university school was developed by Karl Wilbers from the Chair of Business Education and Personnel Development in close cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, seminar teachers from the study seminar North Bavaria and school principals from the region . Since October 2009, all students in the Nuremberg Master’s course in Business Education are obliged to take part in this program. Three seminar schools from the regional environment of the university became university schools:

Vocational school 4 of the city of Nuremberg
Vocational school 6 of the city of Nuremberg
Ludwig-Erhard-School Fürth

For students of electrical engineering / metal technology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, another seminar school was added to the university school concept in October 2010:

Erlangen vocational school

The focus of the collaboration is media-based self-study in core student groups, support from teachers at the school and so-called attendance blocks at the university. As a result of this network, the publication “Designing Business Lessons” (textbook and toolbox) was presented in 2012. The platform “wirtschaftsunterricht-gestalten.de ”for this textbook is the first freely accessible educational resource (OER) in this area.

Also since autumn 2009, the students of the Bamberg Business Education Chair have been deepening the traditionally intensive practical contacts of research-oriented teaching and school development at the following university schools:

State vocational school III Bamberg
State Vocational School II Bayreuth
State Vocational School Center Forchheim
Schwabach State Vocational School and Schwabach Municipal Business School

The Bamberg university school concept promotes and demands regular contact between students during their studies and school practice through trial and school internships, but especially through theory-based and empirically tested practical projects in the master’s phase. However, the students should not take over the practice without reflection, but rather understand it critically in the sense of a continuous improvement and change process and increasingly learn to shape it. Criteria for this offer both reflection on economic and social processes and findings from current didactic, teaching-learning and neurobiological-medical research. To this end, mentor teachers, seminar teachers and university contact persons are in close contact and develop joint projects that consolidate or change the teaching concepts, school work and school life in a transparent, comprehensible and verifiable manner and thus create appropriate, responsible, systematic ties in the training and further education of trade teachers allow.

For students of the "Vocational Education, Specialization Metal Technology" course at the University of Bayreuth, the

State Vocational School I Bayreuth (BS I)

Appointed to the university vocational school of the Chair of Metallic Materials of the Faculty of Engineering (Head of Chair Uwe Glatzel). A characteristic of the BS I Bayreuth concept is the close spatial and personal interlinking of the university and school reality. The school principal, the seminar teacher and the school psychologist of BS I are also lecturers at the university. The metal technology seminar, which is part of BS I, enables students and trainees to optimally network study and school, theory and practice in the first and second phases of teacher training through joint teaching attempts and scientific work by students and trainees. Findings from the course are implemented in own teaching experiments, which are evaluated together with the lecturers and used as an opportunity for further scientific in-depth study.

Since the 2015 summer semester, the Vocational School 9 of the City of Nuremberg has also been the University School of the Chair for Business Education and Personnel Development at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen Nuremberg, Prof. Karl Wilbers.

Further university schools are to be set up in Bavaria.

Web links

literature

Karl Wilbers: Business Education Training in University Schools: The New Nuremberg Way in Business Education Master. In: vlb-Akzente. Vol. 18, No. 10, 2009, pp. 8-10.

Karl Wilbers: Shaping business lessons. Textbook . 2nd edition, epubli, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8442-6807-2 .

Karl Wilbers: Shaping business lessons. Toolbox . 2nd edition, epubli, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8442-6808-9 .

Karl Wilbers: Shaping business lessons. Textbook . Berlin, epubli, ISBN 978-3-8442-3591-3 .

Karl Wilbers: Shaping business lessons. Toolbox . Berlin, epubli, ISBN 978-3-8442-3590-6 .

Claus Bauer, Ewald Blum, Detlef Sembill: Regional teacher training in the program of the Bamberg university schools : merging studies and legal clerkship . In: vlb-Akzente . Vol. 20, No. 6, 2011, pp. 16-18.

Individual evidence

^ Government declaration by Minister of Education Dr. Ludwig Spaenle on March 26, 2009 in the Bavarian State Parliament. In: bayern.de. Archived from the original on October 29, 2010 ; accessed on March 23, 2019 .

[1] Government declaration by Minister of Education Dr. Ludwig Spaenle on March 26, 2009 in the Bavarian State Parliament. In: bayern.de. Archived from the original on October 29, 2010 ; accessed on March 23, 2019 .