Commitment to the teacher training programme
Contact - DiZ
Deputy Director for Studies and Teaching
Prof. Dr Teresa Sansour
Executive Management
Dr Julia Michaelis
Coordination and Development of Quality Management in Teacher Training
Max-Simon Gündert
Departmental Co-ordination of Studies and Teaching in Teacher Training
Katharina Kaschel
Commitment to the teacher training programme
Teacher-related university policy
To maintain and ensure the quality of teacher training at the University of Oldenburg, there are various committees and forums for discussion which focus on and deliberate on matters relating to teacher training. This forms part of quality management.
Your perspective as a student is needed within these bodies for teacher training: by becoming a member of the committees, taking part in discussion events or getting involved in the Teacher Training Student Body, you can contribute your perspective in a meaningful way.
Below you will find a list of the various opportunities to get involved.
Committees and opportunities for participation
Council for Teaching (RaLe) and Commission for Teacher Training (KLB)
The Council for Teaching (RaLe) meets every 6 weeks and advises on overarching issues of teaching organisation and coordination of teacher training. This includes, in particular, the general parts of the Bachelor's examination regulations for dual-subject Bachelor's programmes, the regulations for the Master of Education degree programmes and the regulations for the area of specialisation for the teaching profession. The RaLe can make recommendations.
The RaLe includes voting rights for five representatives of the group of university lecturers and five academic staff. The faculty councils of School I to V elect one representative of each of the two status groups named.
The RaLe also includes five representatives of the student group with voting rights. The School Councils of Faculties I to V each elect one student member for each status group. All five M.Ed. degree programmes should be taken into account when nominating student candidates. New student representatives are elected once a year.
The KLB consists of the members of the Teaching Council and the Research Council, including the co-opted advisory members of both councils, and takes place two to four times a year.
Cross-school quality dialogue for teaching (FüQL)
The cross-school teacher quality dialogue is an exchange format within the framework of the University of Oldenburg's quality management system. It is aimed at all teaching staff from subject didactics and educational sciences (including Special Education and Business Education) from School I to V. The participation of student teachers is also desired. The FüQL meets once or twice a year.
Central topics are inter-faculty topics on teacher training (e.g. school internships, central data and evaluation results, theory-practice interlinking, cross-phase teacher training, etc.) but also anomalies, questions and/or needs that have been identified at the level of the faculty sub-programme conferences.
Further information can be found here.
Master of Education examining boards
There are five Master of Education examining boards covering all types of teacher training (primary, Hauptschule and Realschule, Gymnasium, special needs education and Business Education). The boards review proposals for Master’s theses, as well as cases of failure and allegations of plagiarism.
In addition to representatives of the academic staff and research assistants, student representatives are also required to sit on the committees.
Further information can be found here.
Teacher training student body
The student body Lehramt represents all student teachers at the University of Oldenburg. You can also get involved in teaching-related issues by becoming a member of the student body.
You can find more information on the student body's website.