InnovatED - Sustainable development of future skills for schools, educational research and administration

Although the career path for students studying to become teachers initially appears to be clearly defined, studying to become a teacher opens up a wide range of career prospects. A not inconsiderable number of students realize in the course of their studies that working as a teacher is no longer an option for them. A stronger, interest-based differentiation of teacher training courses that prepares students for alternative career paths in science or education administration can therefore prevent students from dropping out. However, teacher training courses focus mainly on subject content and subject didactics, which means that research methods play a subordinate role. Teacher training students have less prior knowledge of research methods than other doctoral students when it comes to further academic careers, even though they have great research potential due to their broad inter-faculty structure. This leads to challenges in the recruitment of early-career researchers.

The ESF+-funded InnovatED project aims to lay the scientific foundations for an academic career at an early stage of studies and to create a support structure for both students and doctoral candidates that does justice to the heterogeneous starting positions. In particular, career options for female student teachers in research and administration are highlighted and a sustainable network for career development is established.

The aim of the project is to strengthen the next generation of teachers in research and administration and the resulting improvement in teacher training at TU Dresden with a special focus on women. This goal is in line with the strategic orientation and further development of TU Dresden's overall concept of academic success.

The following sub-goals are to be achieved in various work packages:

Establishment of the "Career in Teaching" network consisting of internal and external university stakeholders.
Support for (female) doctoral candidates in the research process through:
- target group-specific modular further education courses that facilitate the transition from the profession-specific teacher training course to the research-oriented doctoral phase
- establishing interdisciplinary exchange formats within and outside the university to strengthen the early-career researchers community
- Creation of individual support structures (advice & coaching)
Identifying career paths in science, education administration and administration for (female) student teachers by
- Implementing a coherent information system on the subject of careers and doctorates after teacher training, consisting of information materials, information events, podcasts, etc.
- Organizing a series of events on the topic of "School meets science"
- Creation of spaces for low-threshold exchange between student teachers, doctoral candidates and stakeholders in education administration and administration
- Career mentoring through role models (doctoral students, stakeholders in education administration and administration)

Duration of the project: 01.09.2025 - 31.08.2027

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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Dr.in phil. Sarah Drechsel

ESF+-Projekt InnovatED

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Center for Teacher Education and Educational Research (German abbreviation: ZLSB)

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Seminargebäude II, 2. Etage, Raum 216a Zellescher Weg 20

01217 Dresden

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