- Thorsten Bohl in an interview: on the plans for the school award and on education policy without a strategy
- List of school awards: Salzwedel school allows double study
- Witness: Dagmar Wolf: Learn from the best
- 2023 Education Budget: Table.Live-Briefing on Thursday 29 September
Dear reader,
Two events have shaped the German school system over the past 20 years: first, the Pisa shock of 2001, when the OECD certified German schools as poor and unfair. On the other hand German school award in 2006. At that time, the “Primary School Small Kielstraße‘in Dortmund – and then Finnish delegations even went to Dortmund’s Nordstadt to see how a good school can be run with heterogeneous student bodies. Since then, the school prize has been awarded every year, endowed with 100,000 euros for the winning school.
But the school price has changed. The number of applicants has rapidly decreased. In this special issue, we take a closer look at the German School Award. The colleague Niklas Prenzel has a Interview with the new jury president made by the Bosch Foundation, which awards the school prize. Thorsten Bohl from Tübingen tells us what he wants to do in the future compared to his predecessor Michael Schratz with the school prize.
And I went to one of the schools that I’m on Shortlist stands for the school award, the GE Lessing daily and community school in Salzwedel. We don’t know if the great Lessing School will win the award. But one thing is certain: the whole country can learn from her how to do something for the shortage of teachers is committed. Very simple – and for the benefit of everyone involved. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) will award the prize on Wednesday. For this reason we will not show up at 6 am as usual that day, but the next day early afternoon with everything you need to know about the awards ceremony.
Another note on our behalf: the hot phase of the budget negotiations begins this week – we are talking about it with Jens Brandenburg and Nadine Schön. Contact us here for us Table. Live briefing (Thursday from 12:00 to 13:00)
And now have fun reading!
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Interview
“Educational policy lacks problem solving strategies”
When you enter a school, how do you know if it is particularly good and deserving?
For example, how students and teachers meet a foreign visitor. If they identify with the school, they will speak to you quickly and help you orient yourself. But I don’t have the presumption to say that I immediately recognize a winner. Then the whole selection process would be superfluous. I am a researcher and I know how complicated school is in the end.
One of the focal points of your research revolves around the question of what constitutes good teaching. What is important?
