As a continuation of the Winter Academy 2022, the Summer Academy focuses on the conditions for success in cooperative learning settings and offers teachers and school administrators practical input as well as a forum for intensive mutual exchange. The aim of the Summer Academy is to convey and deepen the topic of cooperative learning settings with experts on the pedagogical approach of complex teaching.
The academy serves to promote an understanding of democracy and the teaching of inclusive values and norms to children and young people in schools.
The implementation of cooperative learning requires appropriate planning, teacher training and consideration of pupils' individual needs. In a large-scale recent interview study with teachers from different types of schools, teachers stated that they mainly needed more knowledge about cooperation, but also knowledge about diagnostics, didactic adaptation, subject-specific knowledge and knowledge about special educational needs. Knowledge about cooperative teaching-learning processes was mentioned most frequently in percentage terms (55%). Lesson examples, video recordings, joint activities and reflection sessions will be used to show how successful group lessons can be implemented, how status differences in heterogeneous classrooms can be addressed and how joint learning can be facilitated.
The Summer Academy is organised in cooperation with the University of Potsdam and Stanford University and is funded by Flexible Funds, Department IV (International Affairs).
Link: https://www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/sonderpaedagogik/sonderpaed/news/medien/Sommerakademie_Internet_final.pdf
