Wiedner Gymnasium

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The school building on the Wiedner Gürtel

The Wiedner school is a Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium and with Sir Karl Popper School as Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium under a common management and teachers in the 4th  district of Vienna Wieden with address Wiedner Gürtel  68th

building

The school building was built in 1909/10 according to the plans of the architects Emil Hoppe and Paul Hoppe for the Vienna Women's Acquisition Association (founded in 1866) and on October 1, 1910 in the presence of Education Minister Karl Graf Stürgkh (1859-1916) and the Minister opened for public works by August Ritt (1852–1934); it is owned by BIG . More recently, the building was home to the Federal College for Economic Women’s Professions (also known as the “ Knödelakademie ”), renamed the Federal School for Economic Professions after it was opened for boys to attend school . Currently, the BG and BRG Wiedner Gürtel and the associated Sir Karl Popper School are located in the building .

Sir Karl Popper School

In addition to the regular school operation of the Wiedner Gymnasium, a school trial is being carried out to promote the gifted . The educational offer of the school, named after the British-Austrian philosopher Sir Karl Popper , has a number of special features that are intended to promote the creative and professional development of the students in particular. One of the most important is the modular system , which enables students to choose which subjects to attend, taking certain guidelines into account. The Sir Karl Popper School was founded in 1998 by Andreas Salcher , Walter Strobl and Bernhard Görg . Kurt Scholz was one of the initiators .

The course system ( school year 1998 / '99 to 2007 / '08) made it possible for the 11th and 12th grade students to put together part of their timetable themselves. There were several basic models that prescribed a number of hours in different areas ( natural sciences , humanities , languages ). In addition, it was compulsory to attend the main focus of two subjects, with main focus courses having more hours per week than normal courses. The subjects gymnastics, German, mathematics, religion or ethics and a foreign language were compulsory. The course system was replaced by the modular course system in the 2008/09 school year. The pupils put together their own schedule, which, in addition to core modules (German, mathematics, religion / ethics, exercise and sport, a foreign language), consists of type-forming basic modules ("normal" school subjects, e.g. other foreign languages, geography, history, Biology, ...) and elective modules (sub-areas of a school subject, e.g. physics elective module relativity theory). The students have to work at least 128 hours per week in 4 semesters. They can choose freely between the type-defining basic modules and elective modules offered, whereby they have to complete at least 38 hours of type-defining basic modules in the 4 semesters. In the 2011/12 school year, the module system for new classes was extended to the 10th grade, and students in these classes have since had to complete 204 hours per week in 6 semesters.

Coaching was introduced for the purpose of advising students about their emotional problems and as a way to submit anonymous complaints about teachers. Each teacher supervises a coaching group of four to eight students, with whom he meets once or twice a week. Especially in the first year of school, coaching has the function of helping students when they cannot cope with the school dynamics. They are also generally supported by their coach, for example in the selection of learning methods. Especially in the seventh and eighth grades, coaching is a voluntary offer; attendance is not compulsory ("event coaching").

In preparation for the pre-scientific work (earlier for the departmental work ) as well as for the scientific work at a university, the pupils from the 5th to the 7th grade have to submit a scientific paper every year, whereby they can choose the school subject and topic themselves. Great importance is attached to the work protocol and the scientific citation and reference to the source . In the 5th grade, the work is called VWE (“Pre-Scientific Exploration”; until 2014 “Portfolio”), whereby a topic is to be worked on from different directions. In the 6th grade it bears the title VWS (“pre-academic semester paper”; until 2014 “annual work”).

For teacher-student communication, the Popper Forum is convened twice per semester , in which parents and students can make suggestions for improving the school in the presence of the management team (director and three other teachers). The so-called contracting (literally: conclusion of a contract) is an agreement between students and teachers, which is made in all subjects at the beginning of the year or semester and defines the learning objectives of the subject. The assessment criteria, expectations and obligations are also written down in this, in order to have a clear basis for determining grades in the event of a discussion of grades.

The Sir-Karl-Popper-Schule was the first school in the world to introduce the teaching subject Communication and Social Skills (KoSo), which was developed by Renate Wustinger and is taught by her. The subject is now also offered at other schools. The aim of this subject is to teach students communication skills and ways of resolving conflicts. There is a multi-day internship for this subject in the 6th grade, which is intended to put the students' social skills to the test (“Competent Social”). In the 7th grade the focus is on styles of upbringing and leadership, in the 8th grade an introduction to sub-areas of systems theory follows.

The admissions process for the Sir Karl Popper School consists of a test lasting several hours and a personal interview. The test consists of the Advanced Progressive Matrices Test and the Intelligence Structure Test 2000R , two recognized intelligence tests . Five to eight students are tested by a psychologist every morning. The second part of the admission process is a face-to-face interview in which the test results or possible alternatives - if the candidate cannot be accepted into the Sir Karl Popper School - are discussed. In principle, applicants with the best test results are accepted. A lateral entry is also possible in principle, but only until October of the 10th school year. Two classes with 24 students each are accepted per year, lateral entry is only possible if the maximum number of class students is not exceeded.

The school experiment “Sir Karl Popper School” is not to be confused with the Sir Karl Popper School in Vienna Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus.

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Vienna suburbs 1993 . IV. District, monumental buildings, school, Wiedner Gürtel 68, p. 159.
  • Günter Schmid (Hrsg.): Festschrift 10 Years Sir-Karl-Popper-Schule 1998-2008 . Collection of articles, Vienna 2008.

Web links

Commons : Wiedner Gymnasium  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vienna Women's Acquisition Association ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: ÖNB : Ariadne - “Women in Motion” project. . Retrieved April 3, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.onb.ac.at
  2. ↑ The opening of the new school building for the women's trade association. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, No. 16562/1910, October 1, 1910, p. 5, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  3. ↑ Wiedner Gymnasium. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  4. ↑ a b Renovation, modernization, conversion and extension - July 2002 to April 2004:
  5. ↑ modular system. Sir Karl Popper School, accessed November 20, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Web presence of the subject KoSo

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 5.4 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 6.5 ″  E