University Quality Improvement Funds for Teacher Education

Petitioner: Dr. Christine Bickes

Institution / Faculty: Faculty of Humanities, German Department

Project Start: January 2020
 Run Time: 23 months

Short Description:

The additional qualification programme German as a Second/Foreign Language Workshop Plus offers teacher training students of all subject combinations without previous experience an initial basis for teaching German as a second/foreign language and prepares them for the encounter with multilingualism in the classroom, in society, in a professional context and in voluntary work.

Petitioner: Prof. Dr. Tabea Becker, Prof. Dr. Claudia Müller-Brauers

Institution/Faculty: German Department and Institute of Special Education

Project Start: January 2020

Run Time: 13 months

Short Description:

This project spans across faculties and subjects and is designed to promote the quality of teacher education. E-Learning is especially relevant for education teachers, as it is not only used as a medium within the framework of the teaching offer, but is also the subject of the teaching itself and part of the students' later professional activity as teachers. In addition, e-learning offers an opportunity to develop the extensive learning content in a practical and economical way.

Measure A works on an interdisciplinary basis and aims to bundle and network existing resources and activities in teacher education throughout Germany through a coordination office, to compile and coordinate activities, but also to provide technical and didactic advice.

In measure B interdisciplinary E-Learning-modules will be realised which the focus lying on the important topics of language education, diversity and inclusion. This also includes, for example, the further development of the learning platform www.hyperkulturell.de for intercultural learning, which was co-designed by students. Furthermore, inter-university networking is to be intensified in the context of digitalisation and e-learning.

Coordination and Contact:
 Benjamin Haag, benjamin.haag@germanistik.uni-hannover.de

Petitioner: Prof. Dr. Christiane Meyer, Prof. Dirk Lange/Vertretungsprofessor Dr. Moritz Peter Haarmann, N.N. (since 01.04.2019 Prof. Dr. Meik Zülsdorf-Kersting)

Institution/Faculty: Faculty of Natural Science and Faculty of Humanities, Didactics of Geography, Institute of Didactics of Democracy, Didactics of History

Project Start: April 2019
 Run Time: 24 months

Short Description:

The project aims to develop, test, evaluate and subsequently consolidate a teaching concept that integrates the three subject perspectives and adequately prepares prospective teachers for a possible future career at comprehensive schools already in the first phase of teacher education.

On the basis of the project experience, results and findings, the subject "social studies" will be offered in the future e.g. as an additional certificate or similarly in the Master's teacher education for university-track secondary schools for students from the subject areas.

Petitioner: Dr. Ulrich Krings

Institution / Faculty: Faculty of Natural Science, Institute of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Project Start: November 2018
 Run Time: 24 months

Short Description:

The project aims to optimise the success of the exam in the food chemistry module of the Bachelor TE course. Through targeted tutoring, the lecture material will be revised and a deeper understanding of the lecture contents will be achieved. In addition, targeted exam training will familiarise students with the "exam question style" and thus reduce exam nerves. Small learning groups should contribute to an improved learning atmosphere and make it possible to deal with individual problems and questions in a more targeted manner.

Petitioner: Johannes Wolf

Institution / Faculty: Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Science, Institute of Vocational Sciences in the Building Trade

Projekt Start: February 2019
 Run Time: 12 months

Short Description:

Teaching in the vocational subject areas site engineering, colour technology and interior decoration and well as manufacturing of wood products has a high percentage of experimental laboratory classes. In comparison to other places of study, this is a special quality feature of the education at Leibniz University Hannover, and the planned project aims to further strengthen this quality, especially with regard to digitalisation.

With the funds applied for, the existing software is to be brought up to date and thus also enable digital processing by means of special tools for the presentation and didactic preparation of examinations. The synchronized recording of data and video material enables the analysis of material testing while simultaneously viewing diagrams and sample condition even in self-study, the practical effect of changes.

Petitioner: Ulrich Stitzinger

Institution / Faculty: Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Special Education

Project Start: April 2019
 Run Time: 12 months

Short Description:

The project enables an expansion of the range and an increase in the quality of the courses in the Master's programme Special Education and in the Master's programme Special Education and Rehabilitation Sciences. The primary goal is to develop students' in-depth skills in planning and using digital media in an educational context. Students acquire the ability to assess the use and suitability of specific digital media and to transfer this knowledge to teaching-learning processes with pupils. The use of laptops and special software for the audiovisual editing of cartoon clips in the classroom will be developed explicitly. In addition, students will gain necessary knowledge of transdisciplinary cooperation within the framework of cooperative teaching-learning structures. In addition, competences in the area of observation and promotion of linguistic-communicative skills of children, as well as in the working areas of screenplay and animation film are trained.

Petitioner: Prof. Dr. Bettina Lindmeier, Prof. Dr. Julia Gillen, Ina Buchroth, Dr. Douglas Yacek

Institute / Faculty: Faculty of Humanities, Leibniz School of Edcuation, Institute of Special Education

Project Start: September 2019
 Run Time: 24 months

Short Description:

Globalisation, migration and intercultural networking are increasing the importance of skills in addressing cultural difference. Even if a stay abroad is planned, previous intercultural experiences and insights are beneficial for a successful experience abroad. Students at Leibniz University Hannover should be enabled to engage with other educational systems, values and educational realities "from home", also in English. Within the framework of the project, internationalisation at home is to be promoted. The internationalisation project consists of three dimensions:

1. English Course Offers (4 Semesters) on topics of International Education and Global Justice.

2. Thematic excursions in the region of Hannover

3. Establishment of cooperations with colleges and schools of education abroad

Petitioner: Prof. Bernado Wagner, Dr. Tomas Jambor

Institution / Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - Centre for the Didactics of Engineering

Project Start: October 2018
 Run Time: 15 months

Short Description:

As a joint venture of the Centre for the Didactics of Engineering and Institute of Natural Science Education, the project “Leibniz Prinzip digi lab” has the goal of creating a teaching and learning room for digitally supported lessons. Current and future technologies (AR and VR), such as beamers, touch screens, 3D printers and scanners as well as audio and video systems, will be integrated. The space should be usable in three ways:

1. Promotion of media literacy of teacher education students:
    Students can participate in the event in which technologies will be incorporated, on the one hand. And on the other, they can create teaching units for the event and school themselves.

2. Educational Research:
    School lessons will be conducted directly in the teaching and learning room or components of the room will be transported to the respective schools and used on-location. The educational research should take place within the framework of the courses, so that it is mainly done by the students themselves. In this way they learn to evaluate and optimize their own teaching.

3. Specialised scientific Courses on-site:
    Through this impulses are meant to be created on the methodical and medial development of the teacher education degrees to the individual subject sciences.

The Leibniz Prinzip digi lab thus enables students to try out, document and reflect on various flexible lesson scenarios.

Petitioner: Jun.-Prof. Susanne Weßnigk, Dr. Rüdiger Scholz

Institute/ Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Didactics of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Quantum Optics

Project Start: August 2018
 Run Time: 12 months

Short Description:

The goal of this project is to build a teaching and learning laboratory at the Leibniz University Hannover, and to implement and establish in the teacher education degrees. The teaching-learning laboratory enables students of teacher education to gain practical and particularly reflective experience in specially arranged teaching-learning situations during their studies. One aim is that students acquire important competences of their future profession in the direct experience and reflection of the learning situations they have designed, which are difficult to achieve in other teacher education courses such as lectures and seminars (such as the recognition, generation and analysis of teaching quality). The teaching-learning laboratory should thus offer a structural improvement of teacher education.