Current News
Project Application Successful
Our project is entering its third round from 2025-2029! Funded by the DAAD, we will continue to pursue established activities under the name Lehramt International: Reflecting Diversity and Inclusion in Teacher Education.
These include the expansion of the practical semester abroad, international expansion of teaching through digital cooperation and excursions, the establishment of a research seminar for internationally oriented theses and the continuation of the International Teaching Week 2025 and Summer School 2026 events. We look forward to further cooperation with our partners in the IO and ZfLB.
International visit to teacher training in Bremen
At the beginning of December, we have a visit from Canada - David Montemurro (University of Toronto) and Ferris Grant (Central Technical School Toronto) are accompanying Bremen students on their practical semester in Toronto. We want to give our guests an insight into the local school system and teacher training so that they can get an impression of our students' backgrounds. The programme includes school observations at Gesamtschule West and Alexander von Humboldt Gymnasium, a visit to the State Institute for Schools and appointments in various FB12 working groups.
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Network Extension Vienna
In October, project coordinator Jenny Bredull visited the KPH and the University of Vienna to explore other schools and discuss the challenges and opportunities of the Viennese school system.
Highlights included getting to know the Salvatorschule in Kaisermühlen, attending a lecture by cooperation partner Prof. ?nci Dirim from the University of Vienna on the topic of language diagnostics taking into account overall linguistic ability and participating in a course on inclusive physical education in which new assist tools in basketball, handball and goalball could be tried out with Viennese students.
Many thanks for the warm welcome!
Picture book library international
Today we welcomed some guests from the International Teaching Week to our picture book library. In addition to the activities of the Bremen Institute for Picture Book Research, the main focus was on an exchange about multilingual picture books in elementary and primary education as well as representations of diversity. Thank you very much for the visit and the lively discussions!
Guest article by Sarah Sudikatis
International Teaching Week of the Faculty – 13.05. – 17.05.2024
From Monday, 13 May to Friday, 17 May 2024, we organised an ‘International Teaching Week’ in the Department of Education. For a whole week, international academics from Canada, Namibia, Austria, Luxembourg and Turkey were our guests and took part in a variety of regular courses. In panel discussions, expert workshops and lectures, they engaged in professional dialogue on topics such as ‘International Teachers in the Context of Migration’, ‘Multilingualism’ and ‘Inclusive Schools in Migration Societies’.
A Visit to the Senate Chancellery
On 18 January 2020, we visited the ‘International Cooperation and Development Cooperation’ department of the Senate Chancellery. In an imaginative and inspiring discussion, we exchanged ideas about ways to involve our PSA/Windhoek scholarship holders in the project ‘Improving waste management in Windhoek/Namibia’. The project, which was launched in 2019 as part of the city partnership between the Namibian capital and Bremen, focuses on professional exchange as well as business start-ups for waste minimisation and environmental education activities.
Pilot Practical Semester Abroad in Canada
Our scholarship holder for piloting the practical semester abroad in Toronto, Saida Knierim, has arrived safely in Canada. Until the end of January, she is attending seminars at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) on topics relating to diversity and interculturality, such as ‘Anti-Discriminatory Education’ and ‘Indigenous Experiences of Settler Colonial Racism’. In February, the German and IP student (Gy/OS) began her internship at Central Technical School.
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"Praktika International" at the University Fair
As part of the University Fair 2023, the Lehramt International project, together with the ZFLB, introduced a large number of interested parties to ways of gaining practical experience in schools abroad. A particular highlight of the event was the lively reports from students who have already completed an internship semester abroad or are about to do so. The project team also took away some valuable organisational tips from these contributions!
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Practical Semester in Namibia - Scholarship Holders 2024
The Lehramt international project has awarded four full scholarships to pilot an internship semester abroad with study components at partner universities. Lorencia Evers, Maja Plieth and Jana S?ther from the primary school teaching degree programme completed their internship semester at Delta Primary School in Windhoek from February 2024 and attended exciting seminars at the University of Namibia. They were particularly curious about how to deal with multilingualism, which characterises everyday school life in Namibia.
Information event ‘Internships International’ on 22.11.2023
As part of the university fair ‘Studying and Internships Abroad’, an information event on the topic of ‘International School Internships’ took place on 22 November 2023. In addition to an overview of the various options for organisation and funding, some students reported on their own experiences with internships abroad.
Flexible practice options in Vienna
Project coordinator Jenny Bredull travelled to Vienna at the end of October. The programme included talks with the Vice Rector, the International Office and various lecturers at the KPH (Church College of Teacher Education) as well as observations in multi-grade classes at selected practical schools. The beautiful partner location of Vienna is characterised by a variety of exciting internship opportunities that can flexibly meet the individual professional interests of students.
Expertise Expertise International - Kick-off Meeting in Bremen
A kick-off meeting of colleagues from Bremen, Vienna and Winnipeg for our Expertise2 measure took place in Bremen in mid-October. Exciting perspectives were discussed under which roundtables are to take place in the coming year. Questions on teacher training for inclusive, diversity-sensitive and anti-discriminatory schools in the migration society will be discussed from international perspectives and with reference to degree programme development and professional research. Teachers and students from all partner institutions will be involved in the expert forum.
Opportunities and Challenges of the Practical Semester Abroad - Lecture in Switzerland
How ‘Diversity and Inclusion in Teacher Education’ attempts to create structures that make internships abroad with selected university partners worldwide attractive and practicable was the subject of a presentation at the 5th Congress of the International Association for Practical School Studies in Zurich.
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Teacher Education International in Namibia
Kirsten Beta, project coordinator and employee at the International Office, recently travelled to Windhoek to coordinate the framework conditions at UNAM, the participating schools and the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture for the pilot project. At the beginning of 2024, three prospective primary school teachers who are currently studying at the University of Bremen were able to go to Namibia for their practical semester in the Master's programme. There, they gained teaching experience at a primary school in the capital Windhoek and also studied at the School of Education at the University of Namibia (UNAM).
“Lehramtsstudium International: Mainstreaming Diversity and Inclusion” Starts
The follow-up project to the International Teacher Training Programme: Diversity and Inclusion in Teacher Education (DAAD) started at the beginning of the year. Under the motto Mainstreaming Diversity and Inclusion, we continued to work in 2022 and 2023 on simplifying pathways abroad and internationalising teaching in Department 12. In addition to international cooperation seminars and virtual guest lectures, exciting activities such as an international teaching week were planned. We are delighted to have advertised four scholarships to pilot practical semesters abroad in 2024.
ISSDITE-Film-Launch
During the ISSDITE Summer School in summer 2022, participants from Namibia, Canada, Austria and Bremen were accompanied by a camera from ZMML during workshops, school observations and the cultural supporting programme. A film in which ISSDITE and the cooperation network of Lehramtsstudium International is presented can now be seen here.
ISSDITE Summer School
The one-week International Summer School: Diversity and Inclusion in Teacher Education (ISSDITE) took place in late summer 2022. The summer school, planned by Dr Dita Vogel in close collaboration with cooperation partners, brought together teachers and students from Namibia, Canada, Austria and Bremen for an intensive exchange on teacher education and work in inclusive, intercultural classrooms.
