We hope that the internships will give us a deeper insight into the structures of the schools and the organization and teaching of the lessons. We would like to further optimize our own lessons with the newly acquired knowledge and ideas and equip them with more practical parts in order to open up different learning approaches for all children. For years we have been investing a lot of energy and material resources in our school to enable modern and media-oriented learning for the children and the teaching staff. European project work is part of our school profile. For many years the school has participated in Comenius, Erasmus+ and eTwinning projects. It was therefore obvious that the experience of our European project partners and course providers should be used to further develop our educational work. A large number of further training needs in a European dimension result from the aforementioned project activities. It's about improving language skills. The language is the key, getting to know and trying out new teaching methods and teaching materials, especially IT-supported teaching with interactive whiteboards, notebooks and tablets in all subjects.
Most of our students are bilingual, often come from educationally disadvantaged families, and school performance is rather poor. Our school is a so-called focal point school. We have good experience with handicraft and nature education lessons in class projects, working groups and in small groups of students. Through practical work, the children have a sense of achievement that some of them don't achieve in normal lessons. In this way, children with a strengthened sense of self-esteem can also master difficult learning situations and rediscover the joy of learning. The use of alternative and practical forms of teaching should be increasingly included in our teaching. Scandinavia, especially Finland, is known for its good PISA results and innovative teaching design. Since 2016, there has been Phenomenon teaching, PBL, i.e. "Phenomenon-Based Learning" teaching in project form and interdisciplinary. The lessons are practice-oriented and complement the normal subjects. What these forms of teaching have in common is that the changed forms of teaching not only teach subject content but also social learning. A school in London, for example, has integrated cooking and gardening into its lessons and teaches a wide variety of content, including reading and arithmetic, through practical activities. As a side effect, the children learn how to eat healthily. With better nutrition, they are also healthier and more focused and can learn better. This school also manages to bring the topic of nutrition into families through a restaurant attached to the school.