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Compulsory Module 1: Introduction to Teaching: Becoming a Professional (5.5 ECTS-Credits; 4 h)
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Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates of the module understand the importance of school as an educational institution and have basic knowledge in the fields of education, learning and teaching in institutional contexts. Graduates of this module have acquired knowledge about the teaching profession, know selected professionalisation concepts and the requirement profile of the teaching profession. Moreover, they have gained insights into the professional reality. They are able to reflect on their own school and learning biography.
Graduates of this module are able to explain selected models of lesson planning as well as teaching methods, and apply them under guidance. They know theoretical teaching models and know the basics of general didactics.
Graduates of this module know about the fundamental importance of diversity for lesson design and implementation and have first experiences in reflecting on teaching, team work and social learning. They know alternative teaching concepts and school systems.
Graduates of this module have gained first empirical experiences in the research field school. In the teaching practice they have gained experiences in the fields of classroom observation, lesson planning, holding of teaching sequences and are able to reflect on these experiences in a systematic and theory-based way.
Graduates of this module will become aware of their professional choice based on practical experiences in the field of school and can reflect on it based on profession-theoretical concepts and their own educational biography.
Graduates of this module have acquired fundamental competences in the fields of presentation, rhetorics and the design of learning situations.
Compulsory Module 2: Learning, Teaching and Research in the Context of Diversity (7.5 ECTS-Credits; 5 h)
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Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: The graduates of this module have advanced knowledge of learning and teaching in the context of diversity in its school-relevant importance and in the field of educational psychology.
They are able to become aware of the challenge of stereotypical attributions and reflect on it. Their knowledge of social and cultural contexts allows them to recognize and consider possibilities and boundaries of their action. They possess theoretical and practical knowledge to shape social relationships and cooperative work forms in heterogeneous learning groups.
Graduates of this module have gained advanced insights in the profession-related research and development of school and teaching as well as school quality.
Compulsory Module 3: Diagnosing, Counselling, Educating, Teaching, and Assessing (7.5 ECTS-Credits; 6 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this module have fundamental knowledge of communication theories, learning diagnosing, counselling and mediation. They know models for promoting learning and apply them adaptively and have competences in dealing with conflicts and violence prevention.
They are able, against the background of learning-process-oriented diagnostic insights, to develop first action strategies and intervention competences for the occupational area of school and implement cooperative development and support plans.
Graduates of this module are able to classify, evaluate and flexibly use strategies and methods of classroom management.
Graduates are able to apply action-oriented models of communication theory for the work field of school based on cases. Students know and understand quality criteria for performance evaluation. The know the challenges of performance assessment and evaluation and can justify their own approaches based on theory.
Graduates of this module have fundamental pedagogical knowledge and can apply it to their own tasks as teacher in everyday school life. Thanks to their continuous experiences in school life they are able to see things ¿ corresponding to their training level - from the perspective of the teacher.
Graduates of this module have personal, social, subject-specific and methodological competences. They are able to independently plan, implement, evaluate teaching units according to given objectives and to adjust their teaching to the heterogeneity of the respective group of learnings with differentiated teaching methods. They know feedback instruments for inside and outside perception of their teaching and are able to use them.
Compulsory Module 4: Professional Teacher Development I (3 ECTS-Credits; 2 h)
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Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: The graduates of this module have advanced knowledge of concepts for teaching preparation, implementation and evaluation, and they are able to create appropriate learning designs for different groups of learners with educational and learning-theoretical as well as pedagogical-practical models and to apply them in the classroom. They have in-depth knowledge of the dynamics in learning communities and have the theoretical and practical knowledge for designing social relationships and cooperative work forms, as well as for performance evaluation and assessment. They are able to link theoretical and practical knowledge and to gain results that contribute to the development of teaching, learning conditions of pupils and the quality of schools resp. Graduates of this module advance their knowledge on concepts and methods for innovative teaching forms, conflict management, classroom management and parent counselling.
Compulsory Module 5: Professional Teacher Development II (7 ECTS-Credits; 2 h)
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Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 4
Learning Outcome: The graduates of this module can implement concepts of lesson preparation, implementation and evaluation as well as appropriate learning designs for different learning groups in the classroom by means of educational and learning theory as well as pedagogical-didactic models. They are able to implement dynamics in learning communities as well as social relationships and cooperative working forms for planning and holding series of lessons. With theoretical and practical knowledge in educational studies they can contribute to the further development of teaching, the learning conditions for the pupils and the quality of the school with their teaching. Graduates of this module can appropriately use instruments for performance evaluation and assessment in class in a differentiated way and deal with the feedback of pupils and colleagues as well as superiors in a differentiated way. They can implement concepts and methods for innovative teaching forms, conflict management, classroom management and parent counselling in an innovative manner.
Based on theory, graduates are able to deal with their own teaching and further develop their own teaching concept based on practical experiences.
Compulsory Module 6: Profession-Related Research and Professionalisation (6 ECTS-Credits; 5 h)
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Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates are familiar with current research findings, developments and scientific-theoretical-paradigmatic fundamentals in the areas of school development and professional community, learning research, teacher education and professionalisation, school research as well as leadership and school development research. They are able to independently plan, implement and evaluate findings in these areas based on research for different school settings in consideration of current literature.
They can analyse, reflect on and critically question them and develop and implement specific case-related options for action in professional practice ¿ in particular for issues related to the topic of diversity in the school and education system (gender, inclusion, heterogeneity, interculturality and plurality of worldviews).
Against the background of current theoretical concepts of the professionalisation of educational professions, graduates reflect on their experiences in the field of school as educational institution. They perceive themselves as professionally acting educators who are members of a professional community of pedagogical actors.
Based on these finding, graduates are able to analyse, plan, implement and critically evaluate learning processes in institutionalised learning situations based on current research findings.
Graduates know the basics of science theory, education policy and theory as well as innovations in their own education system and have an overview of international perspectives and developments on questions of education, school and teaching.
Graduates can assess scientific and methodological approaches in the central areas of the educational curriculum based on current research approaches and research projects and make them usable for their own research projects or plan and implement their own research projects based on these resp
Compulsory Module 7: Education Laboratory (3.5 ECTS-Credits; 2 h)
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Prerequisites for registration: positive completion of compulsory module 1
Learning Outcome: Graduates have expanded their competences in education science by working on cases of innovative practice. They professionalise their pedagogical actions and develop a habitus appropriate to the profession by reflecting on school and teaching situations.
Graduates are able to plan and implement actual case-related options for action in professional practice ¿ in particular issues in the range of topics in diversity in the school and education system (gender, inclusion, heterogeneity, interculturality and plurality of worldviews).
Graduates are able to plan, implement and evaluate lessons for all education-relevant school types. They are able to reflect on and analyse the results based on theory and to generate new findings as well as theoretical approaches and options for action.
Compulsory Module 8: Current Topics in School and Education Research (5 ECTS-Credits; 4 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates have expanded their skills and knowledge according to their own interests and interest foci by selecting courses from the offer.
Notes:
- There may still be changes in the courses offered as well as room allocation and course dates.
- The course descriptions found in the English version of the course catalogue are for informational purposes only. Authoritative information can be found in the "Vorlesungsverzeichnis" (German version of the course catalogue).