Good morning from the German team

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Good morning from the German team!
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Thats usBerufsbildende Schulen des Landkreises
Nienburg

• LocationNorthern Germany
• Lower Saxony
• 50 km north of Hanover
• 150 km southwest of Hamburg
• Local town
• Nienburg
• 32,000 inhabitants
• Glass and chemical industry
• Rural environment

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Our School

• 3,300 students
• 200 teachers
• 10 administration staff
• 2 social workers
• Full-time courses (five days a week)
• Part-time courses (one or two days a week)
• 40 school types
• 50 courses of professional training
• school leaving certificates on different levels

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Our School

• Departments
• Business Administration, Health Care
• Mechanics and Automotive
• Electrical Engineering
• Construction Technology (building, wood
  processing, painting)
• Social Care, Body Care
• Agriculture, Nutrition, Domestic Science
• Sixth Form College (providing access to
  university)

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Our representatives in Marseille

• Sabine Schroeder, principal
  Martin Wahl, teacher

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Images of the BBS Nienburg
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Our project

• Methodological training -
• the key to quality?
• What can we do
• to improve the quality of our students?
• to improve the quality of our teaching?

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Our process

• Setup of a regional network of primary and
  secondary schools and the vocational school
• Instruction of 40 teachers from these schools as
  members of steering committees at each school
• Establishment of steering committees at each
  school
• Training of selected teachers in the field of
  method skills
• Coordination of training units by members of the
  steering commitee (the godfathers or
  godmothers)
• Implementation and transfer of methods in
  selected classes

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The House of Learning
Key Qualifications
Personal Competences
Methodoligical Competence
Social Competence
Professional Competence
Self-reliant Learning and Working
Training of Methods
Training of Communication Skills
Training of Teamwork Skills
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The House of Learning Basic Ideas

• Reduce
• teacher-centred lessons
• high input of facts
• mere reproduction of facts
• monotonous learning by heart

• Enforce
• student activity
• communicative skills
• teamwork skills
• methodological skills
• self-organization
• responsibility
• key qualifications

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Methods trained

• Obtaining of information in texts with
  highlighting and excerption
• Presentation techniques in class
• Visualisation of results (cheat sheet, crib)
• Preparation of tests/exams
• Working in teams

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Evaluation

• Questionnaire, filled out seven months after the
  beginning of the training

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Highlighting and excerpting helps me to find
information in texts systematically.
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Cheat sheets help me to present results in class.
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The visualisation of facts helps me to remember
coherences.
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I have learned to work on new assignments
independently.
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Teamwork provides better solutions.
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I have learned to understand information by
passing it on to other students.
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I have learned to prepare tests more efficiently.
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The spiral of working activities (individual work
? pair work ? group work) is better than
traditional teaching.
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The newly learnt methods help me to learn and to
remember.
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Conclusions

• We must carry on
• encouraging our colleagues to take up a different
  position in teaching that is
• more activating for the students and
• less dominating for the teacher
• encouraging our students to accept
• more freedom
• but also
• more responsibility for their learning process.

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Thank you for your attention!