On 5 December 2025, 130 graduates of the Master of Education for GHR, Gym and SoPäd were ceremoniously presented with their degree certificates. Prof. Dr Andrea Strübind, Vice President for Studies and Teaching, and Prof. Dr Teresa Sansour, Vice Director for Teaching at the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre (DiZ), gave the welcoming speeches. Nils Prior, graduate of the M. Ed. Gymnasium, gave a special speech with an impressive and inspiring science slam presentation for the future teachers. The ceremony was accompanied by music from the band Nouvel Amour. more

On Friday, 05.12.2025, the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre is organising a graduation ceremony from 16:00-18:00 with greetings and musical accompaniment. All graduates from the summer semester 2025 are cordially invited to the celebration together with their families, parents, friends and acquaintances. more

"Practising democracy: How can schools be organised in a participatory way?" The podcast "Campus und Karriere" by Deutschlandfunk reports on the TOLL Day, which took place on 1 October 2025 with various actors from schools, universities and participants interested in schools. more

An online information event on the topic of internships abroad will take place on 05.11..2025, 12-14h. In addition to information on framework conditions, programmes, scholarships and the general organisation of an internship at a school abroad, students will report on their experiences and their time at a school abroad. The event is organised by the Central Study and Career Counselling Office (ZSKB) in co-operation with the Didactic Centre (DiZ) and the International Office (IO).

The DiZ committee elections for the 2-year term of office were held successfully. The joint constituent meeting of all committees took place on 2 April 2025 and concluded with the election of the new Board of Directors. more

On 16 May 2025, 116 graduates of the Master of Education for GHR, Gym and SoPäd were ceremoniously presented with their degree certificates. Prof. Dr Andrea Strübind, Vice President for Studies and Teaching, and Prof. Dr Teresa Sansour, Vice Director for Teaching at the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre (DiZ), gave the welcoming speeches. Graduate of the M. Ed. Gymnasium, Tjorben Meyer, gave a speech. The ceremony was accompanied by music from the band Nouvel Amour. more

How participation and democracy can succeed, why commitment and appreciative interaction are so relevant for participation, how to deal with controversial issues and discrimination - these are some of the central topics at the 2nd Day of Oldenburg Teacher Training (TOLL) entitled: "The future is created in MITEINANDER - participative. appreciative. effective.". Programme and registration more

On Friday, 15.11.2024, the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre will host a graduation ceremony from 16:00-18:00 with greetings and musical accompaniment. All graduates from the summer semester 2024 are cordially invited to the ceremony together with their families, parents, friends and acquaintances. more

On 26 April 2024, 99 graduates of the Master of Education for GHR, Gym and SoPäd received their degree certificates in a ceremony. Prof. Dr Katharina Al-Shamery, Vice President for Academic Career Paths, Equal Opportunities and International Affairs, and Prof. Dr Teresa Sansour, Vice Director for Teaching at the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre (DiZ), gave the welcoming speeches. Graduate of the M. Ed. Primary School, Melda Yurdakul, gave a speech. The ceremony was accompanied musically by the R&B and jazz band Rose amoures." more

What are the needs of the younger generation? What demands are placed on schools and teaching in this context? On Thursday, 14 March 2024, two keynote speeches will provide an introduction to the relevant background and take an inspiring look at the motives and needs of the new generation with regard to learning and working at school. Afterwards, the conference programme will offer individual in-depth opportunities in parallel impulse sessions.
The conference will take place in the lecture theatre centre of the University of Oldenburg.
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On 8 December 2023, 120 graduates of the Master of Education for GHR, Gym and SoPäd were ceremoniously presented with their degree certificates. Prof. Dr Teresa Sansour, Vice Director for Teaching at the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre (DiZ), gave a welcoming address. M. Ed. Gym graduate Niklas Müller gave a speech. The funk and soul band SWAY provided the musical accompaniment to the ceremony." more

On Wed, 06.12.2023, a workshop on the topic of "Interdisciplinary research into language-aware subject teaching" will take place at Oldenburg Youth Hostel. The aim of the event is interdisciplinary networking and co-operation in research projects in the areas of language-aware subject teaching and support for language-sensitive teaching and learning. The workshop is organised by the research cluster "Language-aware subject teaching / language-sensitive teaching and learning" and supported by ^OLE+ and the DiZ Research Academy. more

Registration for the internship assignment via the DiZ is possible from 01-30 November 2023. On 1 November 2023, 14:15-15:45, there will be an online event on the general school internship (prx102) for the teaching degrees GHR and Gym. The event is aimed at all those in the dual-subject programmes of these degree programmes who are planning to complete the ASP in summer semester 2024 and provides information on registration requirements and organisational tips. " to the ASP GHR " to the ASP Gym

An online lecture on the topic of internships abroad will take place on 25 October 2023, 12-14 noon. In addition to information on framework conditions, programmes, scholarships and the general organisation of a school internship abroad, students will talk about their experiences and their time at a school abroad. In addition, the initiator of "Teachers without Borders" will present the organisation and its projects abroad. The event is organised by the Central Study and Career Counselling Service (ZSKB) in co-operation with the Didactic Centre (DiZ) and the International Office (IO)." more

The Orientation Week will take place at the University of Oldenburg from 9-13 October 2023. The Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre (DiZ) will provide information about its offers for teacher training on Mon, 09.10.2023, at the information market in the foyer of the lecture hall centre (A14). " further offers

On 7 July 2023, 101 graduates of the Master of Education for GHR, Gym and SoPäd were ceremoniously presented with their degree certificates. Prof. Dr Karsten Speck, Vice President for Studies, Teaching and International Affairs, and Prof. Dr Teresa Sansour, Vice Director for Teaching at the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre (DiZ), gave welcoming speeches. Graduate Susann Willig gave a speech. " more

On 8 and 9 August (10 am - 4 pm), OLELA will once again be taking part in the AHOI_MINT Days. Children, young people and parents are cordially invited to the Schlaue Haus to discover and familiarise themselves with STEM activities and the variety of extracurricular learning venues in the north-west region." more

In summer 2018 and autumn 2021, two workshops on the Model of Didactic Reconstruction (MDR) took place in Zurich and Oldenburg. A report volume, edited by Prof Dr Michael Komorek and Dr Kai Bliesmer, has now been published, which proves that the model is excellently suited as a didactic approach for current educational tasks" more

On 14 March 2023, the School Management Conference 2023 took place for the first time at the University of Oldenburg. The programme of the fully booked conference focused on all-day schools, their implementation and design. You can also read the article on the all-day school initiative from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)." to the article

The Master of Education is usually followed by the preparatory service. This second phase of teacher training harbours opportunities but also challenges. The Didactic Centre (DiZ), together with the Central Study and Career Counselling Service (ZSKB), is offering various information events in WS 2023.
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At KlimaWissen on 29 June 2023, pupils will enter into an exchange with experts. For this purpose, the experts will provide a video contribution on a climate topic exclusively for the registered school classes, the content of which will be discussed together in the KlimaTalk . to the website

Is the all-day school the magic formula for solving all problems and challenges in the school system and in our society? On 14 March 2023, school administrators, teachers and educational staff with management tasks will receive valuable impulses for the design of their all-day school at the School Management Conference. The conference will once again take place in person, for the first time in the lecture theatre centre of the University of Oldenburg.
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On the occasion of the inauguration of the new OLELA rooms, the OLELA network invites all interested parties to the "OLELA - Open Day" on Saturday, 25 February 2023. From 10:00 - 15:00, the eleven OLELA (Oldenburg Teaching-Learning Spaces) will present their services for families, pupils, teachers, students and interested parties and look forward to exchanging ideas.
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On Friday, 30 September 2022, the "opening" ceremony of the DiZ Research Academy and the DiZ Graduate School "Teacher Training 2040 " will take place in the afternoon under the title "Learning - RESEARCH - Education: Teacher Education 2040 - Shaping the Future Now" with renowned speakers and a supporting programme in the lecture hall centre A14 in presence. If you are interested, please keep this date free. The programme and further information can be found here:
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Under the title "Teacher Education 2040: Dimensions of the Professionalisation of Teachers from an Interdisciplinary Perspective. Challenges, Models, Methods", the University of Oldenburg is setting up a new Research Training Group. The Research Training Group comprises 9 doctoral positions (65% TV-L E 13) over a period of 3 years each and is based at the Research Academy of the Centre for Teacher Education - Didactic Centre (DiZ). The following disciplines are involved in the Research Training Group: Biology / Environmental Sciences, Music Education, Economics Education, Education, Educational Psychology, Philosophy, Philosophy Didactics, Political Education / Political Didactics, Religious Education, Special and Rehabilitation Education, Sociology, Sports Science and Technical Education. >>> further information and job advertisements (application deadline expired!)

The proceedings of the research conference "Exploring and developing places and processes of extracurricular learning", which took place at the University of Oldenburg in August 2018, have been published. At the centre of the conference was research into non-formal and extracurricular learning (both in STEM subjects and in the humanities and social sciences). This conference was the sixth volume in a series on extracurricular learning spaces organised by the Lucerne University of Teacher Education and this time jointly organised by the doctoral programme and research network "STEM Learning in Informal Spaces" (GINT) in co-operation with the Lucerne University of Teacher Education.

As part of the Higher Education Pact 2020 funding programme "Innovative Teaching and Learning Concepts: Innovation Plus", a new project has been approved for the Oldenburg teacher training programme: "Inclusive teaching and learning settings in subject teaching" (ILLSU). The aim of the project is to jointly develop and evaluate the module isb243 "Designing and evaluating inclusive teaching and learning settings" for students of special education and subject teaching in order to better prepare students for teaching in inclusive learning settings in the future. >>moreinformation

The regulations of the Centre for Teacher Training - Didactic Centre (DiZ) of 15.02.2019 (AM 004/2019) expired with effect from 20.01.2021 and were replaced by the amended regulations. >>further information

"Hirn gehört: Oldenburger Wissensschnack" is the name of the new science podcast in which scientists from the region talk about their projects, their motivation, their best story or their craziest favourite technical term. Prof. Dr Ira Diethelm from the Department of Computer Science Didactics at the University of Oldenburg will kick off the podcast on 21 January, followed by other scientists on the third Thursday of each month. >>to the podcast

The aim of the AHOI_MINT project is to give young people aged 10 to 16 in north-west Lower Saxony access to exciting programmes in the fields of mathematics, computing science, natural sciences and technology. It is largely supported by the network partners University of Oldenburg, Forschungszentrum NordWest für Schülerinnen und Schüler e. V., Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch Oldenburg and OFFIS e. V. - Institute for Computing Science. The Smart House Oldenburg is responsible for project coordination. Active support is provided by CEWE Stiftung & Co KGaA and more than 50 other partners from science, business, public administration and civil society. >>more information

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The University of Oldenburg is traditionally strong in the training and further education of teachers - as well as in the associated research. In an interview with Uni-INFO, Vice President Sabine Kyora and DiZ Director Martin Butler talk about successes and future plans. The article appeared in Uni INFO 4/20019.
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