Partner Schools
Käthe Kollwitz School, Osnabrück
The Käthe Kollwitz School is an integrated secondary school (Hauptschule and Realschule) with about 500 pupils, many of them with migration background. They are taught in 21 classes, school grades 5 to 10. The staff consists of 65 persons (i.e. teachers, pedagogical and other staff). The school is connected with many network partners, and it is opening towards the surrounding city area and towards many external partners, too, which means that even the aspect of school culture is developing visibly.
Main topics of the school are intercultural communication, integration, stimulation and special needs of the pupils and their professional orientation. New and alternative teaching methods and self-organized lessons are realized step by step.
Contact: Walter Altenhof
Heiligenweg School
The Heiligenweg School is an all-day elementary school with about 190 pupils, 80 % of them with migrational background. They are taught in 11 classes with more or less three classes per school form. 130 children take part in the all-day school programme at a voluntary base. The school has 16 teachers and 4 pedagogical assistants. 4 more teachers work in the after-school care club of the school. The main focus of the school lies on intercultural communication, integration, and special needs of the pupils. New and alternative teaching methods and self-organized lessons are realized step by step.
Contacts: Helga Nebel, Jutta Hilker
Middle School of Partschins
We are a middle school, and working with the new media and technologies of information and communication plays an important role in our school district in the daily activities with the pupils, but also for our own preparation of lessons. New media are considered as valuable instruments and important means of support in teaching. We do not want to neglect the interpersonal relationship amongst pupils, and among pupils and teachers, though. Working at the computer we try to enhance the sense of community by employing the computer in open learning sessions and learning stations as well as in the weekly learning targets. Apart from offering an instruction on how to use the various learning and training programs, pupils should also learn how to use the new media in a critical and responsible manner. In addition, computer-based learning helps to stimulate autonomous learning, motivation and perseverance in each individual pupil. In this manner, pupils will have the opportunity to study and practice different exercises according to their individual levels and needs which guarantees an utmost support of each pupil’s own learning process. At this school, the internet is regarded as a means for providing information and constitutes its own platform of communication (the school’s homepage, the chat). During the teaching in special subject areas, computer-based learning may be used in different forms, i.e. as a complementary offer by additional exercises when pupils may search on the internet or other information programs for additional information related to topics treated in class. Application programs allow the pupils to work autonomously and in a creative manner. In addition, pupils may use the computer room at the middle school in Obermais to do their exercises or to surf on the internet on Wednesday afternoons. Two teachers supervise these media afternoons.
Contact: Yvonne Fadin
Radó Tibor Általános Iskola és Gyógypedagógiai Módszertani Központ
Our school was founded in 1947 and is conceived as a school for children with special educational needs. Due to the fact that 50 % of the pupils come from families who live in deprived social conditions it is often very difficult to keep up steady contact with the parents who – in most cases - need help themselves. In most cases it is necessary to help the families. Therefore, one of the schools tasks consists of offering assistance and counselling the families in all matters concerned with offical procedures and authorities. At present, a number of 205 pupils in eight school classes who are taught by 66 full-time teachers plus one part-time teacher. Also, the school’s staff organize free time activities for the pupils, sports activities or after-school clubs, for example. The summer and winter camps are very popular with both the pupils and the parents, As one of the school’s major target aims at including the pupils’ integration into society, it organizes all kinds of competitions and events and invites pupils to participate.
Contact: Eszter Kobrizsay, Zsuzsi Somosi
NYME Öveges Kálmán Gyakorló Általános Iskola
The Kálmán Öveges training school is in the centre of the county capital Györ, a few minutes’ walk from the Pedagogical Faculty of the West Hungarian University. For more than a century the building accommodated this school that right from the beginning served as a training centre for teachers. teachers. Today the school is an elementary school with 450 pupils (aged 6 – 14), and 47 teachers where pupils go through all primary levels and are being prepared to continue their education, according to their talents, interests and abilities, at a middle school or a trade school. One important feature of our school represents the practical training of the students. Students tutored by experienced teachers can practise teaching here. During the past school year, 265 students sat in on classes and
more than 40 groups of students completed their compulsory phase of practical teacher training at this school, with over 70 model lessons imparted to students and teachers from all over the country.
At our school the pupils learn in 19 groups, starting at 8 a.m., in lessons of 45 minutes with breaks of 10 or 15 minutes Right from the first class, subjects that aim at promoting pupils’ skills and abilities are taught by specialised subject teachers. The teaching of foreign languages starts as early as in the first school years and pupils may choose between English and German as main foreign language. From the fourth form on foreign language teaching is imparted in groups of pupils with similar achievement levels, which offers the advantage that pupils progress more rapidly when studying together with pupils of the same level.
At a higher school level, during the seventh and eighth class, pupils are offered foreign language teaching in a second foreign language. With the school maintaining relations to schools in Germany and England, pupils may also make use of the opportunity to take part in exchange programmes.
Contact: Krisztina Frank
Europaschool
This is one of the schools (basis school) that cooperates with the “Hogeschool Edith Stein / Onderwijscentrum Twente” in the region of Twente. So far, however, no final decision has been reached on which one of the two schools will be finally chosen as the major partner due to unsolved organisational and administrative problems. Still, the Hogeschool firmly assures that they will select a partner school and announce this selection as soon as possible.
De Europaschool is een school voor Openbaar Onderwijs De school is gesitueerd in het centrumgebied van Slangenbeek. Kinderdagopvang, multifunctioneel centrum, gezondheidscentrum en peuterspeelzalen bevinden zich naast de school. Mede hierdoor heeft de school zich ontwikkeld tot een kantoorurenschool. De school stelt zich ten doel de kinderen zo goed mogelijk te begeleiden en in te spelen op de individuele behoeften van het kind.
Contact: Uwe van der Sar, Marc Telgenhoff
Praxisvolksschule der Pädagogischen Hochschule Steiermark
The Training Primary School of the Pedagogical College, Styria, has one pre-school class and 2 parallel classes at all other levels. The 200 pupils are taught by a team of 25 teachers. The school offers practical training to the students of educational sciences (diploma study, teacher training at elementary school level) of the Pedagogical Academy (= Pedagogical College since 1 Sept. 2007); it is also the national model and research school in Styria. The school concept focuses on:
- the imparting of education and knowledge on the basis of the Austrian curricula in combination with the latest pedagogical insights; the acquisition of social competence, interpersonal competence, learning strategies, transfer and resource competence; connected team work; supporting the teaching of gifted and talented pupils; teaching according to the Dalton plan; educational games, open learning, EU projects
- easy-going school start; bilingual teaching (+ English); all-day school classes, flexible teaching schedules, i.e. flexible school start in the mornings; teaching models with subjects like music, art, handicraft, etc.; computer-based teaching; integration classes; English as a foreign language and now, since the school year 2007/ 2008, even French, beginning with the first form.
Contact: Arnd Stöckl
The Hauptschule St. Leonhard is a secondary school (lower and higher grades) with eight forms and aiming at the best quality. It focuses on computer technology, especially on spreadsheet programs and text processing. Every school grade receives two hours of computer lessons a week. It is possible for the pupils to take the ECDL tests (European Computer Driving Licence). The inclusion of handicapped children at every school level is common practice at our school. The Hauptschule St Leonhard follows an autonomous schedule, for example offering professional orientation in the 3rd and 4th forms and nutrition and housekeeping beginning with the 2nd form. Optional courses are ECDL and football.
Contact: Diethard Passler
Marttilan koulu
The Marttila School is an elementary school with a high number of classes for children with special educational needs. We have about 440 pupils, 38 teachers and 33 classes. The pupils are aged from 6 – 16; and the level of classes range from pre-school to year 9. Lessons are offered in 15 regular classes (grades 1 – 6), one regular all-day class (grades 1 – 2), seven special classes with adapted curriculum (grades 1 – 9), eight special classes for hearing-impaired pupils (grades: pre-school – 9), and 2 special classes for pupils that show behavioural problems (grades 3 – 6). The pupils learn English as their main foreign language; optional additional languages are Swedish, German, and French. There is also a group for Russian. The school’s curriculum focuses on imparting basic knowledge and abilities, on the development of a healthy self-esteem, the teaching of social competences, and individualized learning.
Contact: Jorma Perälä, Sirkka Ala-Hallila
Walter Altenhoff