Preparatory Seminar for the School Internship Semester Teaching Mechanical Engineering Technology With a Focus on Inclusion-Oriented Issues

 

Content

The content of the seminar focuses on the field of action "Designing lessons for heterogeneous learning groups and creating sustainable learning processes" and prepares pre-service teachers academically for the school internship semester

• Methods for developing occupational fields of a vocation
• Science-, situation- (learning field concept) and personality-oriented curriculum concepts
• Didactic theories for reflection of teaching and learning
• Models for didactic goal description in vocational education with a focus on diversity and heterogeneity
• Learning processes with a focus on inclusion
• Criteria for evaluating teaching
• Fields of action of teachers in vocational education and training
• Models and strategies of lesson planning with a focus on internal differentiation measures in a school of diversity
• Pedagogical diagnostics with a focus on diversity and heterogeneity

Objective

The seminar prepares pre-service teachers for the practical requirements of teaching vocational mechanical education technology, both academically and practically, in selected fields of action, by focusing on the following competences:

The pre-service teachers

• know methods for the development of occupational fields of action, business processes and typical vocational work tasks in vocational field of mechanical engineering technology
• know and understand selected curricula and regulatory documents in the vocational field of mechanical engineering technology
• know analysis of subject- and object-matters at vocational schools, in particular from the perspective of the learners and teachers in the vocational subject area of mechanical engineering technology
• know planning concepts based on didactic theories of teaching and learning in the vocational field of mechanical engineering technology
• know and understand decision criteria for the selection of methodologies for vocational learning
• know theory-based strategies for evaluating their own teaching and the teaching of others in vocational learning for mechanical engineering technology
• know objectives for school development as a basis for the further development of curricula and the vocational teaching in the field of mechanical engineering technology
• know curricular tasks of teachers and understand how to transfer these tasks to their own teaching
• know strategies of vocational lesson planning for mechanical engineering technology
• are able to describe occupational fields of action, processes and typical vocational work tasks of mechanical engineering engineers for different target groups and place them in the context of subjects and learning situations of a school of diversity
• can develop learning situations for different school courses for the occupational field of mechanical engineering technology
• can apply concepts and theories of general didactics, general didactics of technology, didactics of mechanical engineering technology as well as insights into inclusive didactics as required by the study project
• are able to relate current discussions on objectives and content in vocational education to educational programs in the occupational field of mechanical engineering technology at vocational schools
• are able to select lesson planning strategies with a focus on inclusion in educational programs in mechanical engineering technology and substantiate them for a teaching project
• are able to select teaching methodology well-founded for differentiated instruction of mechanical engineering technology
• are able to use theory to reflect on teaching observations
• are able to use theory to reflect on the further development of curriculum and teaching at the internship school (e.g. the didactic annual planning in individual courses)
• are able to relate current discussions on objectives and content in the field of mechanical engineering technology to their own teaching project.

Teaching and Learning Method

The aim of the seminar is to perceive the current challenges of teachers at a vocational school and to analyze these challenges against a theoretical background to be able to work out possible solutions for their future work as teachers.

Pre-service teachers have access to digital learning materials on theory and on challenges to be dealt with at vocational schools. Face-to-face sessions foster a critical discourse in the group about the theoretical approaches and deal with practical challenges to support knowledge and skill acquisition.