Apr 06, 2023
Review of 7 years of synergetic teacher training in the TUD-Sylber project
In summer 2023, the "Synergetic Teacher Education" (TUD-Sylber) package of measures funded by the Federal and State governments as part of the Teacher Education Quality Campaign will come to an end after a seven-year project period. Members of seven Faculties and the Center for Teacher Education and Educational Research (ZLSB) have been working on further developing the structures and content of teacher training.
Among other things, the Teacher Academic Affairs Office was founded, quality assurance in teacher training was intensified, the promotion of early-career researchers was expanded and cooperation between educational science, subject didactics and subject science was strengthened. In addition, research results, materials and teaching/learning concepts were developed in current subject areas such as digitalization, dealing with heterogeneity, extracurricular learning locations and others. In particular, the focus was on the cooperation between the various stakeholders in teacher training within TU Dresden as well as networking with non-university partners, e.g. in the training centers of the preparatory service and in regional schools.
Key results, products and successes were presented and put up for discussion at the event to mark the end of the TUD-Sylber project on March 28, 2023 in the Dülfersaal at TU Dresden. Project participants, partners and guests jointly discussed perspectives for the subsequent use and continuation of the products and processes created in the project.
Despite the many successes and progress made in the project work, there are still complex challenges in teacher training even after the end of the "Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung" funding program, which must be permanently addressed and dealt with in the long term. "Teacher training at TU Dresden has become much more visible with TUD-Sylber," summarized Vice-Rector Academic Affairs Prof. Michael Kobel, "and we now have a much clearer picture of where the problems lie that we need to continue to work on." Prof. Anja Besand, who has been involved in TUD-Sylber as a didactic specialist since 2016, emphasizes: "I hope that the project will succeed in maintaining this visibility and the high status of teacher training. After all, training teachers is one of the university's most important tasks."
The presentations and posters on central project results are available online.