Advanced training concepts for language-sensitive subject teaching

Development and evaluation of a training concept for language-sensitive subject teaching (Sek. I) for trainers in the state education authorities and for teachers at public schools.

Many pupils from intensive classes are now in mainstream classes where they continue to need language support. Teachers are therefore increasingly faced with the challenge of integrating language support into their subject. As part of the three-year cooperation project between the DaFZ department at the University of Kassel and the Hessian Teachers' Academy, which began in early 2018, training concepts focusing on "language-sensitive subject teaching" are being developed, tested and evaluated for both trainers and teachers at secondary level 1. The aim is to develop concepts which, due to their structure and content, should guarantee long-term effectiveness at the planning and teaching level. Participants in the training events receive methodological and didactic impulses for planning and implementing their lessons in a way that promotes language learning and try out materials, strategies and principles they have developed themselves in the form of practical exploration projects (PEPs), which are presented and discussed during the training events and applied in micro-teaching sessions. In addition to teaching teaching principles and strategies, the focus is on content-related topics such as subject-specific language structures and tasks as well as language simplification and promotion.