INA – The international use of analysis sheets for educational quality and observation orders to improve the quality of teaching INA has the goal of reviewing and developing a set of instruments for the evaluation of the quality of teaching, that has been developed at the LMU Munich and that has so far been used in Bavaria and Germany. The objective of INA is to evaluate its suitability for international use, adjust it where necessary, and further enhance it by various aspects (e.g. intercultural learning, inclusion, digitalization, speech-sensitive learning processes). In consists of approx. 230 reflection sheets for on the quality of teaching with a focus on the individual teacher's practice from the areas of general didactic, subject-specific didactics and special-needs education and 530 observation orders for teacher supervision. Each reflection operationalizes and outlines in everyday language a particular aspect of teaching quality related to teacher's actions in class that has been described in the relevant literature. The aim of the reflection sheets is to structure reflection discussions about teaching quality in such a way that the individual aspects operationalized in the questionnaires are perceived more consciously by the participating teachers during the course of the conversation and are thus effective for planning, implementation and analysis of future lessons. Ultimately, it is about the reception and realization of theoretical knowledge about teaching quality in the multi-level school system or - to put it more briefly - about concrete impulses for the development of teaching quality and the establishment of transnational, European standards for teaching quality. Drawing into consideration the realities and traditions of different school systems, the applicability, terminology and effects of reflection sheets and observation orders will be analysed. University staff from LMU Munich and PH Linz will monitor the testing, evaluate and validation process and will discuss and validate the results on a basis of a pre-defined set of criteria. Teachers of at the participating schools (Austria, Germany, Finland, Romania and Spain ) will test their applicability through a process of collegial supervision. In five project conferences, the school-internal observations are evaluated. The reflection sheets will be further developed and newly developed internationally, in mixed-country working groups and tested for their practicability at the host school. So far, no comparative data are available on the use of these reflection sheets in an international context. The aim of this transnational project is to develop and present international quality standards for teaching. The project partners are: the Eurocampus, Palma de Mallorca, the primary school "Berg-am-Laim" Munich, lyceum Nikolaus-Lenau Timisoara, the German School Helsinki, PraxismittelschuleLinz, Pädagogische Hochschule der Diözese Linz. The project is coordinated by the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.
The overarching project goal was and is to promote a theory-practice transfer in the area of teaching quality in order to make scientifically determined quality criteria also effective in practice. For this purpose, the analysis sheets on teaching quality serve as a starting point. In order to meet the needs of practice-oriented quality development and to establish standards for teaching quality across countries in different school system and socio-cultural contexts, the analysis sheets on teaching quality should be checked with regard to their international applicability, modified and expanded to reflect current needs. The further development of the instruments is also based on the scientific support of the project (by PH Linz). Through intensive reflection units and the exchange between project partners, individual and national needs should be taken into account during further development, but at the same time a consensual basis for comprehensive applicability should be created.
It has been very well researched which criteria contribute to the quality of teaching. However, in teacher training, the transfer of theoretical knowledge into practice only takes place to a limited extent. This requires individual transfer processes. For this purpose, a set of instruments was developed at the LMU Munich to support this process. Analysis sheets on teaching quality describe what teachers can specifically do to implement the respective criterion for good teaching described in the specialist literature. They can be used for the preparation and implementation of lessons as well as as a basis for a reflective discussion between novices and experts. These analysis sheets were checked for their applicability in cross-national, different school system and socio-cultural contexts, modified and expanded to include additional aspects. It was about the reception and implementation of theoretical findings about teaching quality in the multi-level school system as well as concrete impulses for the development of teaching quality and the establishment of transnational, European standards for teaching quality.