Children and the World – Dimensions and Perspectives of Elementary School Education: Isabell Dietze-Fründt (#ID2)
Format
Seminar, 80% asynchronous, 20% synchronous
Keywords
Children, world, primary-school education, changing perspectives, didactics
© Isabell Dietze-Fründt
© Isabell Dietze-Fründt
© Isabell Dietze-Fründt
© Isabell Dietze-Fründt
© Isabell Dietze-Fründt
© Isabell Dietze-Fründt
Description
What do windmills, trash, viruses, being in love, the Nobel Peace Prize, the city of Dresden, fair fashion and routes to school have in common? Well, a lot actually. It may not be immediately apparent, but these topics are all become relevant at a young age, and so they play an integral role in the elementary school teaching seminar.
What does elementary school teaching entail? What topics should I discuss with my pupils and how? How can I present a topic from all sides and how does it look from a child’s perspective? Students of the teacher training program confront many questions and problems during the second semester. The balancing act between child, world, and subject orientation is enough to make a researcher’s head spin. But this is what teachers are confronted with on a daily basis. In the seminar, each group could pick out a discipline that they wanted to investigate in greater detail (history, science, technology, geography, social sciences...). The students needed to understand, analyze and creatively present the theory and a sample lesson to bring their ideas to life for the others in the group – in whichever remote form they chose (e.g. commentated PowerPoint, video, voice recording...).
We relied on various tools to take our discussion online, including a Matrix messenger group for quick organization, Nextcloud and OPAL for structuring the course, Padlet for more detailed discussion and group work, and PowerPoint and videos for reports and presentations. We used Edkimo for the evaluation process and Zoom to answer any questions that arose. We also filmed the experiments for use in future school lessons, meaning that students can make use of the content they worked on for this seminar in their future careers.
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#ID2