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Key points of the work in grade 10 under Dagmar Dermietzel

(This text was generated in the last year. It will be updated next month.) 

In grade 10 one of the main focuses of our work is the preparation for the school-leaving-certificates and the well-directed planning of our students’ future careers.

As we have already done in grade 8 and 9 we keep supporting our students with special counselling (one appointment in November and another one in February) and we develop perspectives and strategies for the future with them (GPS). In coaching sessions with an external moderator our form teachers have developed this GPS concept that we use effectively to council our students and to develop strategies with which they can reach their goals. This concept will be published, so that it can be used again and again.

It is the students’ task to realize these strategies independently. And this is another one of our key points: helping students to become more independent. This is promoted in lessons through cooperative learning and also by giving the grade 10 students the possibility of using the learn centre to learn and study independently. A good learning atmosphere, where everybody is friendly, where students treat each other well, and where students and teachers get along, supports independent learning.

Despite all the work the fun should not be neglected. This is ensured by our students. They have created a celebration committee in which they organize and prepare celebrations independently. This is the realization of another important goal of our team: the students are not only supposed to develop a corporate feeling for their own class, but to identify with the entire year group and to get in touch with students from other classes. To top this year of we are having a graduation celebration at the end of the school year. This will also be planned and realized by students and form teachers together.

As mentioned above our main goals are teaching our students independence as well as the importance of taking responsibility for themselves and others. In order to achieve these goals, it is important for us to exchange thoughts and to come to agreements with each other. We do not only do this in our coaching sessions, but also in team meetings that take place every three to four weeks after school.

The good cooperation with the parents is just as important, of course. In our reader “Wir ab 8“(= “we from grade 8 on“) we inform parents about our pedagogical goals. At the regular parent-teacher conferences and year meetings we are also looking for communication and we are ready for talks (almost) anytime.

By “we“ we mean:

10.1: Maria Münch and Norbert Griesing 10.2: Dagmar Dermietzel and Jürgen Zingel 10.3: Andrea Binsteiner and Frank Glöde 10.4: Edeltraud Groenda-Meyer and Karl Krauskopf 10.5: Susanne Fleßner and Harald Johnsdorf 10.6: Dagmar Hellmeier and Petra Seifert-Kunze