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So much attention was desired more often. As the students sit on, before, beside, behind and ... no, not under the table but, fortunately, and watch each stroke with a red pen. Medical examination: heart, circulatory system and blood vessels. Just written, the Pack Class wanted results. After this week, ending the training block. So somehow understand the desire. Actually, the study group had a work order with research on the PC, but was largely ignored after the traumatic examination. And so they hung there, and schnabbelnd questioning and observing. Wanted to know what they have for now, why I now correct for the exam and not just her that would have been right in question 6 that answer, or at the other.

I do not know if you have ever come into the dubious pleasure of an exam correction. At home I'll retire, weather permitting, on the balcony in the vegetables in bad weather, sometimes even on Gästeklo's, if it is the only remaining place quiet. What can you use the least, while you want to get involved with the outpourings of learners, restlessness, but once you explain that a group of adolescents. The fun ends when making broad buttocks on the exams or the sausage sandwich comes into play.

I have the review but then moved on tonight, or I miss the subtleties. Which there were few. I know, for example, that skin "discolored dry" can be, probably know all the spellings of the word "peripheral" (perifer, perifell, peripherally ...) and found out that hypertension is a symptom of heart failure and not a cause. I learned that there are "aterrielle vein thrombosis" and that when the leg arterial occlusions "very warm, pale and cold" is.

And now I'm ready for a new "Teacher's Adventure" in my professional school somewhere in the rape field between the Baltic and the resin.

Hamburg is facing a massive restructuring. The schools should be reorganized. One of the - in my opinion - good ideas. Why is an attempt to do it differently than before, quite ingeniously, is telling you , Christa Goetsch, Hamburg's Senator for Education and Vocational Training .

I have been studying ... oh, we do so, minor delays are justified, then I work as a teacher at a vocational school and have children ... where was I? Oh yes, exactly, I study for upper secondary school teachers at vocational schools, specializing in health, and have me over the years of theorizing and practicing so made my thoughts on this topic.

Recently I found a note in my records, to which I have written about three years ago my idea. We should move things from time to time in the heart, reflect and reassess. I've done, but it does not change much in my opinion. At most, it's more like three minutes to midnight, when it comes to implementation. Time is short - we give away potential squander.

Here are the thoughts that I wrote years ago. (I also remember exactly where: A seminar room in possibly ugliest building in the University of Hamburg, in which the professional educators are housed - a plain, functional building, inadequately equipped, and yet to this day, the liveliest, most inspiring place on the planet - because Wolfgang citizens the "fire" orators among the teachers, the seminar led.)

First Idea: education should not depend on the social and / or ethnic origin!
Because there should be no doubt. In Germany, the transfer of "bottom" to "top" is still a problem. language barriers stand in the way of genuine integration . Only those who are certainly moving in the terrain of the mother tongue, has a chance to learn a second language (in this case, our German language as a common basis). The immigrant must not be hidden as a stigma, but should be integrated, best early childhood even in education. Especially this time window in which children are especially curious and receptive, offers an incredible amount of potential. A mandatory pre-school kindergarten year, ideally, free of charge, with the inclusion of different cultures, but also a language support, in my opinion is indispensable.
German as a second language, however, requires a fundamentally different approach, also from the school. There must be places where German can be practiced, lived spoken. For that reason I am for the introduction of all-day schools, which offer the chance to absorb deficits may be present in the family - and I include both German and migrant families.

And one thing is essential: we are a country of immigrants with different ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds. The so admit, is important for integrative processes.

Second Idea: Repeal of the different types of school, instead of common classes up to 10th Class!

My son is a model of primary school. There are preschoolers, first-and second-graders and third-and fourth-graders are taught together. Social skills, mutual assistance for the construction of knowledge and acceptance of responsibility towards others because are part of the learning culture. It works great. The graduate with a mother tongue other than German cut on average from when it comes to the command of the German second language. Children learn together, and with each other. The primary school, which will be introduced from 2010 in Hamburg allows, after all learning together to 6th Category. IMHO a step in the right direction.

Third Idea: teaching must be based on the acquisition of skills!

Professional, personal, social and methodological skills - we learn at university. There are a number of others who are using learning techniques, media, design etc. . deal The teaching of these skills has been the focus of school-based learning are. Today's children are tomorrow's adults. Many companies bemoan the lack of skills of school leavers. We can not and must not afford this army of some insufficiently-armed man!
I know that this word can also have a negative connotation, but: Human capital is the most important thing we have.

4th Idea: Individualized instruction that everyone there picks up where he stands!

Education, which measures all students with a degree, undifferentiated and without consideration of individual learning goals, can anyone get into the boat. In this way, some driving more and incidentally, at best, or they drift off and are out of reach, at worst. The high number of early school leavers without a diploma is a consequence. You can lie down a school biography, which satisfies the compulsory education, her purely on the number of schooling years without notable success were recorded. In principle, this is anti-social. We must look to promote and discover strengths, weaknesses, work on, and awaken the joy of learning. This is not abgespultem curriculum, which has only the curricular requirements in mind. Schools must teach students that they will be perceived seriously. (Eg My students have my home number, my ICQ and Email Address To put it bluntly. No, they do not abuse them, although many friends had these concerns, but just in case they have a contact person.)
No one can nothing! No one is useless. You just have to shake up the creativity. This is sometimes unusual methods required.
However, we have too many who have hatred for school, find the learning and teaching me sick view as enemies. Even at the elementary school my son is already sprayed it: "This school is shit".

5th Idea: more use out of your mind!

We are mad, if we do not pack the learning conducive Potetial of his mind with dread. "I did not understand now," Be-attacked in the truest sense of the word. Feel, smell, see, experience, taste - how it works with the learning!

6th Thought: We go early before too selective?

For many children has until the end of the 4th School year is not a sufficient tendency to one of the types of schools trained. You then have to sort into boxes is often (granted, not always) makes little sense. Shortly after my own primary school was the introduction of the transition cycle - apparently it was recognized that the change in the 5th Class often no information about the suitability can be made. But why must it be broken functioning learning groups? Then let them learn to prefer six years together. Or even better: 10 (See second thought.)

7th Idea: Get rid of the lessons that separates strictly according to subjects. Dear interdisciplinary teaching and with real problems!

Explained largely by himself, right? Case studies from real life to solve require different content from different disciplines. We had earlier called in math word problems. ("When three construction workers working on a construction site 6 days, how long will 17 construction workers working on the same site?"), However, required the responses I think too little cross-disciplinary content. Let's be honest: you buy one and rely solely on your computer skills? Even on such a real-life example can be made much more firmly: Healthy eating, reading, planning processes, writing, calculation ...

8th Idea: abolition of grades based purely on evidence, instead of introducing learning development reports!

I once wrote a term paper, added some kätzerisch, notes were issued in a few minutes. This was chalked up to me then, and from experience in several professional schools, I know it's not true. And yet: A grade does not tell much. Whenever I assign grades, it was the end of the probationary period, before a conference or on the exam, most students ask for a meeting to find out why. You want to know their strengths and their weaknesses. Where they need to start to change things? What they can encourage individual strengths? A report may make a little more work, but it is more meaningful.

9th Idea: promote your own thoughts and opinions!

School does not mean something to learn by heart and save pure facts. Learning is not, save for a good grade all in the short-term memory, retrieve it in a nutshell - and then forget again. Learning needs to be sustainable, focused and meaningful. The why has to be taught - why do I need it? When I think back to my history class ... oh my ... as no one has asked initially why the preoccupation with the past in the here and now and the future is important. There were queried dates, and even if the exact date was minimal wrong, it was considered wrong. Here, the view back to open the eyes of current problems, if it is filled with reflection, reflection and evaluation. Not nachkauen, is superior to related foreign exchange, but, and viewpoints. That's the way my son's school is already quite excellent - and he's only in the first Class!
Verknüpfendes learning with looks far beyond the obvious, the promotion of cognitive abilities and the claiming of opinions, even if they are perhaps inconvenient times - all this brings forward people.

10th Idea: learning can and should be fun!

What is the trend? Through to lifelong learning. For various reasons, it is important not to rest at some point on their laurels, put your hands in your lap and wait for the pension (which is otherwise safe). rewiring of the brain is possible at any age , and it is necessary. Those who learn with abdominal pain and rejection that does not get very far. Curiosity, creativity, desire is to promote the task of learning par excellence in the education system. If you ever had a training course or seminar for your visit, or the like so that on-and inspiring was like a waste paper collection, then you probably know what I mean. Or was the learning accordingly?

Sometimes you can even put a bag on his head, to reach people - after the laughter followed one of the most successful, most beautiful lessons of the last time. What you are doing is not anything to keep the learning group in a good mood ...

In this sense ...