We are adopting the school! Good practice at the University of Europe in Flensburg

Abstract

The aim of the study is to present an effective model of international good practice from teacher training, in which students are effectively confronted with school reality at an early stage of training. Organised at the Flensburg Teacher Training Centre, students "adopt" a school for a week, modelled on a Norwegian project. The students who undertake the project will take full responsibility for the school, whose teachers will travel for further vocational training. The actual project, together with preparation, implementation and evaluation, is a two-anda- half-year period, with one week's teaching (adoption) itself embedded in one semester. The multi-year experiment successfully combines several objectives: strengthening the unity of theory and practice, providing opportunities for research into teacher training and promoting the professionalisation and educational experience of prospective teachers, while also being the engine of innovation in schools (Winkel, Großmann és Grosch 2016).