Lesson

In most German-speaking countries includes a school lesson in rule 45, in Austria usually 50 minutes. Exceptions are currently being built increasingly in the provinces, where the high-school career is reduced to eight years ( see, eg, the 60 -minute intervals with a duration of 60 minutes per lesson ). However, this rule may be different from country to country, even within Germany from state to state, as the legislation on education law is the states.

Colloquially, the lesson is also called only an hour. ( " Tomorrow we have seven hours. " )

History

Which is different from the time school hours hours on 22 August 1911, first introduced by August von Trott to the Prussian schools. Since it did not exist many schools of this type of school, this daily teaching time reduction also allowed students from outside the college towns access to higher education without having to live in a boarding school and from the school.

The duration time of 45 minutes was based on academic quarter. At many universities the lectures begin a quarter of an hour later than stated in the course catalog and therefore take no full hour.

The most common rhythm hours

In general, the education begins in German-speaking countries at 8 clock, which (mostly due to the arrival and departure times of public transport ) varies partly from 7:30 clock clock and 8:30 depending on the school. Often the hours are in two-hour sessions (2 times 45 minutes) organized, always a break of usually is inserted 15 minutes from two hours. After 6 hours usually a longer lunch break takes place, which is often declared as 7 hours. In most cases the division of hours ending with the 11th or 12th hour.

Short hours

Order on certain occasions that require an earlier school hours (last day of school, conferences, events), not call off hours, they can - especially in secondary schools - reduced to 30 minutes are held as short hour.

Start of school

In many German schools the first lesson begins at 8:00 clock. Researchers from the University of Basel in 2012 interviewed 2,700 students aged 13-18 Jahrenzu this topic. One result: If the start of school will be moved in the morning by 20 minutes, which is already effective on the duration of sleep and fatigue of young people. Young people whose education begins at 8 clock, sleep about 15 minutes longer and are more alert than those who have to be in school already at 7.40 clock. During the school week, the average sleep duration of the respondents was about 8 hours and 40 minutes. Insufficiently long slept less than eight hours of youth, showed greater daytime fatigue, poorer school performance and generally a more negative attitude towards life.