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The Bielefeld Laboratory School, an experimental school for alternative education organization, is a total and full-day school that is, the students are not selected on merit and are supervised until 16.30 clock. The Laboratory School in Bielefeld is an experimental school in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1974 it was based on the ideas of the educationalist Prof. Dr. Hartmut von Hentig founded together with the adjacent sixth form college in Bielefeld. As an experimental school in the country, it has a mandate to "new forms of teaching and learning and living together to develop in the school." Complementary to the experimental school exists Scientific equipment Laboratory School, an Institute of the University of Bielefeld supported the work of the school and evaluated.
There are 11 classes: a preschool class, and subsequent grades 1 to 10 Classes are vintage cross and experience in areas known to us instead of the subjects instead of (experience areas: handling of people with people, dealing with things: inventing, shaping, playing, dealing with things: observing, measuring, experimenting, dealing with what is thought, spoken, written, dealing with her own body). Reviewed are the achievements of students initially in the form of reports to the learning development, "until the 9th Class, there are notes. The reports are an important part of the whole educational work of the school and should be seen against this background. This means that they document and summarize what the students have worked and how to assess the teachers that. They describe the child or the teenager and his achievements in the context of its development: They refer to what was and is also directed to the future. They describe and evaluate not only but also give advice, support, advice and encouragement. You may never insured judge, nothing laid-write what the child must be understood as immutable, such character traits. They describe and assess, rather, a learning and development process. They are part of a communicative process and outcome between adults and children and can also be changed as such. At the end of the 10th
Class may be the usual qualifications are obtained, ie the school or a specialized secondary school readiness, which gives entry to the upper classes. In the last three school years, each lasting several weeks are operating to complete internships and extensive project work be prepared. In 2002, the Bielefeld laboratory school was tested separately PISA. In comparison with the national average, it was in reading, mathematics and science on a par, in the areas of political understanding, responsibility, integration and satisfaction with their school but she cut off much better.
Here are some important publications on laboratory school:
Hartmut von Hentig: The Bielefeld Laboratory School. Tasks, principles, institutions, PULSE (Series of the Laboratory School), Volume 7, Bielefeld 1994, 4 Ed
Wiltrud Döpp / Anne Marie of the Groeben / Susanne Thurn: Learning reports instead of grades. Experiences of students, teachers and parents, Bad Heilbrunn 2002
Susanne Thurn / Klaus-Jürgen Tillmann (ed.): Laboratory School - a model for the School of the Future, Bad Heilbrunn 2005
Rainer Watermann, Susanne Thurn, Klaus-Jürgen Tillmann, Petra Stanat (eds): The Laboratory School in the mirror of PISA results, Weinheim 2005
thinking Pulse: What is your estimate of this form of school design as compared to your own school experience? Will the student sufficient or perhaps even better prepared for life after school? As you evaluate the scientific relevance of this childhood school-based approach?
