Center for Teacher Education Hamburg
The Center for Teacher Training Hamburg (ZLH) is a joint institution of the authority for schools and vocational training , the University of Hamburg and the other universities in Hamburg involved in teacher training .
Tasks / goals
The Center for Teacher Training in Hamburg was founded in 2006 following a resolution by the Hamburg Senate. The background to this is the extensive activities to reform teacher training in recent years. Its main task is the reform of teacher training - together with the institutions involved in teacher training in Hamburg - and its alignment to European standards through the introduction of the Bachelor-Master system by 2010 (see Bologna Process ). In addition, the ZLH deals with questions of quality assurance in teacher training and conducts research projects, also with cooperation partners, for example the ZEIT Foundation , the State Institute for Teacher Training and School Development and other partners. In Hamburg, teacher training was converted to the BA-MA system in the 2007/08 winter semester and the first students have started a corresponding bachelor's degree.
With the establishment of the ZLH, Hamburg is following the example of other federal states in which such centers have been established since 2004 for the respective federal state or at various universities. While these centers usually only perform intra-university coordination tasks, the specialty of the Hamburg center is that it makes proposals for reform for all phases of teacher training, i.e. study and preparatory service and professional activity. This cross-institutional task is particularly evident in the cooperation between the university, the State Institute for Teacher Education and School Development and teachers from active school practice in thematic working groups, so-called societies.