TU Dresden at the final congress of the teacher training quality campaign

After almost ten years, the Quality Campaign for Teacher Education (QLB) comes to an end at the end of the year. The final congress of the funding program took place in Berlin at the beginning of October, where TU Dresden's QLB projects also presented selected results for the last time.

Dresden's largest QLB project, "Synergetic Teacher Education" (TUD-Sylber), demonstrated the cross-institutional structures that were created in the course of the project at the Centre for Teacher Education (ZLSB) in order to deal with cross-faculty cross-sectional tasks in teacher education: from the organization of studies and student support to the quality assurance of degree programs and the promotion of early-career researchers to the networking of university teacher education with non-university stakeholders. The TUD-Sylber-BBS project, which is dedicated to the teaching profession at vocational schools, presented new ways of recruiting students for this teaching profession and, together with QLB projects from other universities, presented innovative approaches to occupational field analysis in personal vocational departments. The discussions focused on the cooperation between universities and state training institutions for the preparatory service.

For TU Dresden, as for the numerous other funded universities from all over Germany, the challenge now is to secure and permanently anchor the achievements of the third-party funded projects. The first steps in this direction have already been taken together with the Saxon State Ministry of Science.

At the final congress, representatives from universities throughout Germany and the education administrations of the Federal and State governments agreed that the Teacher Training Quality Initiative had triggered a developmental boost in teacher training and put the teaching profession more firmly on the agenda of universities. However, there was also agreement that - not least in view of the shortage of teaching staff - considerable efforts are still required to strengthen teacher training.