Learning process support at experimental and university schools - launch of the BMBF joint project QualiPro at the VUVS annual conference

"With so many children in my class, I can't possibly provide specific activities for everyone." These are some of the desperate statements made by school administrators and teachers when dealing with a heterogeneous student body. Such easily understandable overload point to a development deficit in the school system in Germany. This is because, as guaranteed by human rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, schools in an inclusive school system should adapt to the heterogeneity of the student body - and not the students of a homogenizing school.

However, after almost twenty years of inadequate implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, it is also clear that this demand is not easy to meet. Systemically anchored procedures of learning process support are needed for the individual support of every single pupil. How can these be implemented and further developed in schools? And what development and learning processes are necessary for this on the part of both teachers and pupils? And how could such learning process support be anchored as a quality development instrument in school development?

The BMBF joint project "Quality of learning process support: experimental and university schools as development and transfer actors" (QualiPro; FKZ: 01JQ2410A-D) is dedicated to these questions. Coordinated by Anke Langner, Chair of Education / Inclusive Education at the TUD Dresden University of Technology, the Helene Lange School in Wiesbaden, accompanied by the University of Frankfurt am Main, together with the Bielefeld experimental schools and their scientific institutions as well as the university schools in Dresden and Cologne with their respective research centers, will be researching and developing in this project for the next three years.

Following such research and development work, the question will ultimately arise within the framework of QualiPro: How can such school-specific implementation and development profiles be realized in different transfer concepts?

The conference of the Association of University and Experimental Schools (VUVS) on the topic of "Learning process support at experimental and university schools" in the anniversary year 2024 will therefore be dedicated to the question of the extent to which experimental and university schools can be effective as development and transfer actors in the field of learning process support.
The symposium and the joint meeting are open to the public. Registration is requested. Further information is available in the University School Dresden project calendar.

About the Association of University and Experimental Schools (VUVS)

The Association of University and Experimental Schools (VUVS) was founded in 2020. The starting point was the new educational policy trend in Germany - which can also be observed internationally - to strive for closer cooperation between research institutions, teacher training institutions and school practice. The aim of the network is to provide a forum for this new movement in order to make the scientific support of school reform measures available discursively on a content, process-related and structural level.

The association is designed as an open network of schools (so far) from Germany and Austria that share their ideas and experiences. Both individual schools (scientifically supported reform schools, experimental schools, university schools, laboratory schools) and research-oriented school networks can become members. Dresden University School is a founding member of the VUVS.

Further information can be found on the VUVS website (in the founding publication of the association, available online) as well as on the pages of the VUVS members.

About the University School Dresden

The Dresden University School is a joint project of the state capital Dresden and the TUD Dresden University of Technology. It is a public and free community school run by the city, where innovative forms of teaching and learning are tested under academic supervision. In addition, it is a training school for future teachers and, in the future, a further education school for teachers. The school trial is being scientifically supported by the ForUS research center at TU Dresden.

Information on the research project at TU Dresden: https: //tu-dresden.de/gsw/unischule
Information on the Dresden University School: http://universitaetsschule.org

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