ILLSU
ILLSU
Inclusive teaching and learning settings in General Studies
As part of the 2020 Higher Education Pact, under the funding programme ‘Innovative Teaching and Learning Concepts: Innovation Plus’ run by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK), Maja Brückmann (Institute of Educational Sciences), Anna-Maria Hintz and Tanja Jungmann (Institute of Special Needs Education and Rehabilitation) have successfully submitted a proposal covering the financial years 2021 and 2022 (duration: 1 October 2021 to 30 September 2022).
The aim of the project ‘Inclusive Teaching and Learning Settings in General Studies’ (ILLSU) is to jointly develop and evaluate the module isb243 ‘Designing and Evaluating Inclusive Teaching and Learning Settings’ for students of special education and General Studies, in order to better prepare students for teaching in inclusive learning settings in the future.
The focus is on developing an innovative teaching concept that strengthens the subject of General Studies from an inclusion-focused perspective and supports the development of students’ professional competencies in a research-based, process- and product-oriented manner. In order to be able to professionally meet the needs of as many pupils as possible within a learning group in future, even where there is a high degree of diversity, the focus will be, amongst other things, on structuring learning opportunities through shared core values and group and discussion rules based on these, classroom management based on Positive Behaviour Support (Carr et al., 2002), as well as relevant methods for designing subject-specific teaching that is language-sensitive (Leisen, 2013), language-promoting or based on speech and language therapy (Reber & Schönauer-Schneider, 2019), right through to the use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) and digital media (Willke, 2014) within the overarching framework of scaffolding (Gibbons, 2002).
Further information:
Project staff
- Lisa Federkeil (specialising in augmentative and alternative communication and language-sensitive teaching)
- Madeleine Morhardt (specialising in structuring learning opportunities)