Studenten machen Schule

Students make school is an educational initiative with the aim to provide student teachers already during their studies at schools to enable them as soon as possible with extensive field experience. For this purpose, method-oriented student workshops were designed, which perform the students directly to the school. The program has been running since 2007 and works with around 150 schools in five states together.

Concept

Teaching students of all disciplines have developed method-oriented workshops for different types of schools, which are concentrated in the middle and upper particularly on the science preparation, presentation skills, media training and project management. In the age groups 1-6, the focus is on learning techniques, the preparation of presentations and media-based language promotion. The workshops are topics units, called modules together, and take time always a double lesson (90 minutes) to complete.

The contents of the workshop will be by the - constantly reviewed and revised quality team because of the feedback from students and teachers - also made of student teachers. In addition, the expert partner in the individual federal states, mostly the teaching- forming universities and parents' associations are involved in the quality process. The regional school administrations support the program. So the former Berlin Senator for Education Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zöllner, his successor Sandra Scheeres and the Hamburg School Senator Christa Goetsch, the program denote as meaningful enrichment of the range of schools.

The workshops will take place in the project lessons instead on project days, during hikes or as a working group in the afternoon. "For the schools, the students are a great asset ," says the Berlin headmaster Manfred prank.

Through this concept, student teachers get an additional practice option in addition to studying, which is perceived as overly theoretical. Thus, the program also aims to confront student teachers as early as possible with their own career choices. " For students, the workshops [ ... ] a great opportunity to gain practical experience that comes much too short in the study ," it is the tenor from the students.

History

Students make school was founded in summer 2007 by Robert Greve, founded Jasmin Bildik and Lisa Eineter. The three student teachers saw an opportunity to train students directly to the school to the techniques of scientific work in the new Berlin examination component for high school graduation.

After a steady expansion of the range and a rapid growth of personnel in Berlin, the program started in 2010 in Hamburg and Brandenburg.

The past

Make Five years after the creation of student school has the initiative around 150 partner schools of all types and has over 80 student teachers and eleven permanent employees in the Federal Territory. More than 25,000 students have so far been trained by the initiative.

Around 95 % of the participating schools in one school year have participated in the program again the following year. In preparation for a scientific evaluation of the program, the initiative has students make school now begun to collect and analyze detailed feedback from all stakeholders. The first results should be available by summer 2013.

Financing

Making the program student school does not require government subsidies or private sponsorship. Rather, the model relies on a social entrepreneurial approach, according to which the schools themselves to decide whether they want to use the services and finance. The schools fund the program according to set fee rates on internal school budgets, Funding or parental investments.

Educational institutions

After the program make the first non-profit organization was founded school students eV, the carrier has now changed formation UG ( limited liability) in the social enterprise SWiM. The institution sees itself as " an organization that wants to contribute to the support of social processes and improvements in particular. Offers are not motivated by profit, but to the social value ".

Criticism

The initiative is indeed exposed to public criticism, however, must always answer the question of whether tasks of teachers would be shifted to external forces with the use of the students. So thought the journalist Susanne Klaiber: " Actually, that's [ ... ] The object of the teacher." The program sees itself not shift the field of action of teachers, but sees itself as additional support unit. Schools would be encouraged from all sides, external expertise to bring into the house and would often see the particular charm is that they contribute through cooperation with students make school simultaneously for teacher education students.