Thursday, 14 March 2024, 8.45 am – 2.00 pm at the lecture centre (A14) at the University of Oldenburg

What are the needs of the younger generation? What challenges does this pose for schools and teaching?

Through your day-to-day work and close contact with the younger generation, you in the (extended) school management team experience the specific demands of the new generation on a daily basis, both amongst pupils and amongst teaching staff. This conference focuses on the new generation of teachers and pupils, with their changing goals, attitudes and needs, and addresses the following key topics:

• UNDERSTANDING: What makes the new generation tick? To what extent are goals, attitudes and needs changing?
• PARADIGM SHIFT: How can schools and teaching respond to these changes?
• FOCUS ON GOALS: What skills do young people need for the future, and how can schools and teaching evolve to meet these needs?
• MOTIVATION: How can we inspire young people to engage with lessons? How do we foster and sustain motivation amongst teaching staff to actively shape schools and lessons?

Two keynote speeches will provide an introduction to the relevant background and offer an inspiring insight into the motivations and needs of the new generation with regard to learning and working at school. The conference programme will then offer parallel breakout sessions providing opportunities for in-depth exploration of the following key areas:

• School and teaching development from the pupils’ perspective
• Motivation and active participation amongst teaching staff
• How to Collaboration? Understanding collaboration better and organising it in a networked way
• Successfully tackling school absenteeism
• Developing and shaping the school as a space for teaching, learning and living
• Promoting autonomy in learning and teaching through a conceptual approach
• The impact of digitalisation on pupils’ lives and learning

Rüdiger Maas • Jöran Muuß-Merholz • Martina Zilla Seifert • Jamila Tressel • Stefan Niemann • Silke Müller • Hendrik Nordmann • Dr Jörg Schulte-Pelkum