Insights into the project “OER for teacher training — action strategies for heterogeneous classes”

This blog post gives you an overview of the aims and con­tent of the OER project “OER for teacher train­ing — strate­gies for het­ero­ge­neous classes”. The project is funded as part of the MWK OER ini­tia­tive for the higher edu­ca­tion sec­tor.

Due to the man­date of inclu­sion, het­ero­ge­neous classes are omnipresent in schools today. With a focus on sup­port­ing the learn­ing and social-emo­tional devel­op­ment of learn­ers, the project is cre­at­ing OER mate­ri­als that can be used in future for all teacher train­ing courses as optional teach­ing and learn­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties. They are pri­mar­ily intended for use in teach­ing, but are also suit­able for self-study.

The project devel­ops sci­en­tif­i­cally based videos, pod­casts and texts (“prod­ucts”) on var­i­ous key top­ics (“pack­ages”). They sup­port uni­ver­sity lec­tur­ers in dis­cussing how to suc­cess­fully deal with the com­plex­ity of teach­ing in an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary man­ner with prospec­tive teach­ers.

The pack­ages include the fol­low­ing top­ics:

1. Good teach­ing
   This is a cross-cur­ric­u­lar topic about what con­sti­tutes “good teach­ing”. What needs to be con­sid­ered? What helps to make it a suc­cess?
2. Inclu­sive edu­ca­tion
   Inclu­sion is a mega-topic and omnipresent. What does this mean for teach­ing? What aspects need to be con­sid­ered? And how can inclu­sive edu­ca­tion be orga­nized in our schools?
3. Learn­ers’ needs
   In addi­tion to the tech­ni­cal learn­ing require­ments, learn­ers’ social and emo­tional skills must also be taken into account and appro­pri­ately sup­ported. What needs exist and how can they be iden­ti­fied? And how can we meet them?
   

An advi­sory team of experts and tri­als with uni­ver­sity lec­tur­ers, teach­ing staff and stu­dents guar­an­tee the high qual­ity of the prod­ucts.

Pub­li­ca­tion of the first prod­ucts is planned for early 2022 on Twillo under the key­word “OER teacher train­ing”. The team is happy to receive queries and com­ments on the mate­ri­als at oer-lkb@uni-oldenburg.de.

People involved in the project

The project is a coop­er­a­tion between the Uni­ver­si­ties of Old­en­burg and Vechta, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Uni­ver­sity of Flens­burg

University of Oldenburg

Prof. Dr. Clemens Hil­len­brand,
Susanne Schorer, wiss. MA

University of Vechta

Prof. Dr. Franco Rau,
Lea Schröder, wiss. MA,
Lisa Mud­der, wiss. MA

University of Flensburg

Prof. Dr. Marie-Chris­tine Vier­buchen

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This arti­cle by Susanne Schorer, Clemens Hil­len­brand, Franco Rau & Marie-Chris­tine Vier­buchen is licensed under CC BY (4.0) — unless oth­er­wise indi­cated in indi­vid­ual con­tent.