Thorsten Obel, Lisa Teresa Pais dos Santos, Andreas Rühl, Tanja Haber and Henning Heske (from left) are happy about the anniversary of teacher training in Krefeld.Photo: Lammertz, Thomas (lamm)
Andreas Rühl, Henning Heske and Thorsten Obel head the Krefeld Center for Practical School Teacher Training (ZfsL). They represent the three types of school, grammar school, comprehensive school and vocational college, which award the Abitur. The Schönwasser house, built in the early 19th century as a mansion for a Krefeld tobacco manufacturer, is located in the middle of the Schönwasser Park named after him, which stretches along an old arm of the Rhine to Linn and offers walkers beautiful lines of sight.
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Bald cypresses, weeping willows and groups of conifers are reflected in the lake used by model shipbuilders. Not far from there, the Botanical Garden presents over 5000 species of plants from all over the world. “Krefeld has probably the most beautiful teacher training center in all of North Rhine-Westphalia,” enthuses core seminar organizer Heske. “After some modernization measures on the building and technical equipment, we are totally happy here.”
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The history of teacher training
Anyone who would like to find out more about the history of teacher training around Haus Schönwasser can do so via a specially developed interactive digital tour: www.biparcours.de/bound/zfslkrefeld
In the entrance area of Haus Schönwasser there is a QR code that can be scanned in from the outside. The course can also be done with it.
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This applies to 275 trainee teachers and 81 instructors who experience modern training in the practical training phase for the prospective teachers in the house of the ZfsL, which is crowned by a figure of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. Quite a few of the fully trained teachers can be employed at their training location. Advantage for Krefeld: With a NRW-wide deficit of 4,000 teachers, the teacher shortage in Krefeld is milder. In addition, the trainee teachers bring the latest knowledge of teaching technologies to the training schools, especially since the schools benefit from nine hours of independent instruction given by the trainee teachers.
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The 54 training schools extend over an area on the left bank of the Rhine from Mönchengladbach, Krefeld, Rheinhausen to Kleve. Another new feature is a practical semester for student teachers, which the ZfsL organizes together with the University of Duisburg-Essen. Here the trainee teachers can test again whether their career choice was the right one. There are currently 44 students who spend a semester sniffing school air.
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Lisa Teresa Pais dos Santos and Tanja Haber represent the trainee lawyers as speakers. You can see the stress that lies behind the responsibility of teaching independently, since you are still in the middle of your training. Above all, Haber emphasizes the advantage that you can self-critically check your teaching personality independently of external assessments. The ZfsL management is well aware that the trainee teachers sometimes perceive their training as if different forces were pulling on them in opposite directions. The staff of the ZfsL holds against this with a flat hierarchy, responsiveness at all times and an effort to convey modern teaching standards. That this is successful is shown by the number of up to 300 young teachers that the ZfsL dismisses every year.
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In 1964 the move to the Schönwasser house took place, which accommodated the seminars for teaching at elementary and secondary schools and teaching for the grammar school. In 1977 step teacher training was introduced in North Rhine-Westphalia. As a result, the seminar in Krefeld took on the name “State study seminar for teaching qualifications for secondary level I and upper secondary level II”. From 2003 onwards, trainee teachers had to teach independently. In 2005 the study seminars lose their independence. The vocational college seminar moves into Haus Schönwasser. In 2011, the 24-month training period will be shortened to 18 months and the second written paper will be abolished. The seminar is named “Center for Practical School Teacher Training Krefeld”.
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In the course of its eventful history, the Krefeld ZfsL has become 75 years old. Actually a reason to celebrate given the reputation it enjoys. The disappointment is palpable that the pandemic did not allow the ceremony planned for May 28 with representatives of the training schools, the city, the district government and the NRW school ministry. After research in the city archive, four colored Plexiglas panels were designed, which will be fixed to the wall in the foyer of the Schönwasser house. In the Krefeld yearbook “Die Heimat” a five-page essay will appear at the beginning of October, which under the title “From Studienseminar zum ZfsL” will present teacher training in Krefeld to a broad public. At the end of this year, an educator from the Duisburg-Essen partner university will give a lecture entitled “School of the Future” in the auditorium of the Ricarda-Huch-Gymnasium.
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