The Lower Saxony-wide online survey of early education staff and managers who work in daycare centres with children aged 3 to school age will soon be launched. The aim of the survey is, among other things, to conduct representative research into current educational practices, attitudes and training needs of early childhood educators with regard to diversity in daycare centres in Lower Saxony. You can find more information on the digital survey under "DivKids-PBS online survey".

The DivKids-PBS team is currently designing a digital training course on the educational framework "Program-Wide Positive Behaviour Support" (PW-PBS), which originated in the USA, and the "Pyramid Model" based on it for early childhood educators in daycare centres. You can find more information on the DivKids-PBS online training programme in the corresponding section on this page.

As part of the creation of digital training units (see DivKids-PBS online training courses), the DivKids-PBS team developed the project handout "Taxonomies of learning objectives and their use for planning training units for the elementary sector as part of the DivKids-PBS project". The handout is intended to serve as a theoretically sound basis for the development and formulation of learning objectives and content (e.g. for the design of training programmes based on learning objective taxonomies). The handout also outlines the DivKids PBS project and illustrates the specific use of learning objectives in the DivKids PBS online training programme.

After the two digital versions of the questionnaire for managers and early childhood educators in daycare centres were provisionally finalised, a pre-test took place in which the Catholic daycare centres in Kelsterbach once again supported the DivKids-PBS project. Early education staff and managers were given the opportunity to complete the questionnaire digitally and provide the DivKids-PBS team with re-registering students on implementation. Many thanks to the participants and their helpful feedback!

Following the preliminary finalisation of the questionnaires for early childhood educators and managers, cognitive interviews were designed to test the suitability and quality of selected questionnaire items as part of a pre-test. The interviews were conducted in two Catholic day care centres (Kinderhaus Don Bosco and Kinderhaus St. Elisabeth) in Kelsterbach. We would like to thank them for their participation and support, which enabled us to optimise the questionnaire.

On 13 June 2022, DivKids-PBS staff member Carolyn Tess Andermann presented a poster on the topic of "Language support in daycare centres: Current pedagogical practices, attitudes and training needs of early education professionals". The poster presentation provided an insight into the DivKids-PBS project and focussed in particular on the questionnaire content planned for each sub-project.

DivKids-PBS employee Madeleine Morhardt presented a poster on the DivKids-PBS project entitled "DivKids-PBS - Konzeption einer repräsentativen Fragebogenerhebung und Online-Fortbildungen zur bedarfsgerechten Förderung von Kindern und pädagogischen Fachkräften" at the 56th Annual Conference of the Special Needs Education Section of the German Association for Educational Sciences (DGfE), which took place from 29 September to 1 October. As part of the conference, the 1st prize for the best scientific contribution was awarded to Ms Morhardt for the joint poster by Waxmann Verlag and the DGfE Special Education Section.
Presentation at the digital conference for young researchers at the eighth annual conference of the Mercator Institute
At the Mercator Institute's digital conference for young researchers, which took place as part of the eighth annual conference of the Mercator Institute on the topic of "Speaking and Listening - Learning in Conversation", DivKids-PBS employee Carolyn Tess Andermann gave a short presentation with Critical Friends on the topic of "Interaction quality in the context of linguistic-cultural diversity in German day-care centres".
Poster presentation at the annual conference of the DGfE Commission on Early Childhood Education 2021
On 11 and 12 March, the annual conference of the DGfE Commission on Early Childhood Education took place, at which DivKids-PBS staff member Madeleine Morhardt presented the poster "DivKids-PBS - Adaptation, implementation and evaluation of an innovative multi-level prevention concept to support and promote all children and professionals in day-care centres".

The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic meant that the original project planning could no longer be realised. You can find more details on the pandemic-related changes under the "Project description" tab.

At the 17th Annual Conference of Young Researchers of the Commission on Early Childhood Education in the DGfE's Section on Social Pedagogy and Early Childhood Education on 25 and 26 September 2020, DivKids-PBS staff members Carolyn Tess Andermann, Astrid Hahn (née Lüers), Madeleine Morhardt and Lisa Mudder each presented a poster. Ms Morhardt presented a poster on the overall DivKids-PBS project entitled "Diversity in day-care centres as a pedagogical challenge (DivKids-PBS) - promoting the skills of children and professionals through multi-level prevention", while Ms Andermann, Ms Hahn (née Lüers) and Ms Mudder presented posters on their sub-project-specific topics. For more information on the poster presentations, please visit ResearchGate.