Biography-orientated and cross-phase teacher training in Oldenburg (OLE+)
Biography-orientated and cross-phase teacher training in Oldenburg (OLE+)
As part of the teacher training quality offensive initiated by the federal and state governments, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funded the OLE+ project(Biography-oriented and cross-phase teacher training in Oldenburg ) at the University of Oldenburg from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2023. OLE+ was a development project for the qualitative further development of teacher training at the University of Oldenburg, within the framework of which the structures and processes in teacher training at the University of Oldenburg were optimised on the basis of a biography-oriented and cross-phase approach.
The project results can be divided into the following core processes:
Core process 1:
Optimise organisational structures
Continuation of organisational development in teacher training at the UOL and improvement of the organisational framework conditions for the development and implementation of teacher training through the implementation of new digital communication and information structures.
Examples from the project:
Core process 3:
Profiling the Research Academy
Profiling of the newly established Research Academy, in which Oldenburg research projects on teacher training will be continued and an accompanying research programme in the context of OLE+ developments will be set up and a contribution made to the structured promotion of young researchers.
Core process 2:
Promoting professionalisation
Further optimisation of the curricula in the teaching degree programmes, including the continuation of subject-specific curriculum development, the implementation of advisory elements and the development and implementation of offers that promote the (further) development of professional skills of students and school teachers.
Core process 4:
Improve theory-practice links
Focussing on the curricular integration of elements of "reflective practice". Existing theory-practice spaces form the development cores and are the starting point for the expansion of corresponding teaching-learning formats in co-operation with non-university extracurricular learning locations.
Theory-practice rooms
The dovetailing of theory and practice has long played a prominent role in Oldenburg's teacher training programmes. Within the OLE+ project, these theory-practice links were further developed on the basis of a university-wide concept for theory-practice links in the teaching degree programmes. One focus of these activities was the curricular anchoring of a practice-oriented teaching programme in so-called theory-practice rooms or Oldenburg Teaching-Learning Rooms (OLELA). Theory-practice rooms are typically places in which student teachers teach groups of pupils on the basis of lesson plans that they have developed in advance in university courses under the guidance of teachers and which are then critically reflected upon. Subject-specific technical equipment is available in the theory-practice rooms, which is continuously updated to reflect new focal points. In addition, in some theory-practice rooms, contact with the teaching behaviour of the future target group is also made possible by means of video vignettes. The focus of the videographed teaching sequences is on videos in which the main content of teacher training at the University of Oldenburg as well as typical problems of the respective subject teaching are addressed. In addition to promoting the professionalisation of students, the theory-practice rooms also serve the further training of school teachers and Oldenburg's research into teacher training.
Below you will find an overview of the theory-practice rooms set up or expanded as part of the first funding phase of the OLE+ project as well as links to the websites of individual rooms. In the second funding phase of the project, the practice-oriented teaching and training programme in the theory-practice rooms will be further expanded. One focus will be on promoting the skills of student teachers and school teachers in the field of digital education.
Newly equipped faculty theory-practice rooms
- Theory-practice room for educational sciences at School I
- Oldenburg Experimental Laboratory for Economics Education at School II - Economics Education
- (Mobile) theory-practice room at School III
- Ethics workshop at School IV - Didactics of Philosophy
Further developed faculty theory-practice rooms
- Computing Science Learning Lab at School II - Didactics of Computer Science
- Textile Design Theory and Practice Room at School III - Teaching Material Culture
- Inclusive learning workshop at School IV - Didactics of Sport
- Teaching and Learning Lab physiXS at School V - Physics Education
- Teaching and Learning Lab Wadden Sea at School V - Biology Didactics
- Teaching and Learning Lab Green School at School V - Biology Didactics
- ChemOL teaching and learning laboratory at School V - Didactics of Chemistry
- School laboratory ATB workshop at School V - Technical Education

