The guiding principle in teaching and research at the chair

Conception and Evaluation of School Support with Focus on Learning

As the chair for Conception and Evaluation of School Support with Focus on Learning at the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation, we feel responsible for improving the school care situation of children and young people with serious learning problems. This population represents by far the largest group of people with special educational needs, both nationally and internationally. We regard their inclusion as a task of the greatest social relevance, to the successful implementation of which we want to contribute with the means of science. Our work is defined by the core tasks of "research", "teaching", "promotion of young people" and "public relations".

In research, we are primarily concerned with real problems of everyday school life as well as with the (further) development and assessment of approaches to support children and young people with learning disorders. It is very important to us that our scientific work delivers results that are of direct use to practitioners. We feel committed to this claim and have consistently developed it further through our research and the development of concepts. We publish and discuss our findings nationally and internationally.

We are responsible for the focus on learning in the course of studies "Master of Education: Teacher Training for Special Educational Needs". Within the framework of our courses, we want to offer our students a scientifically sound education that enables them to critically reflect and evaluate their own professional actions at all times. It is important to us to inspire them for our subject and to prepare them solidly for their demanding tasks in their later professional life. For us, good teaching is only conceivable in connection with our own research. In this context, we are guided by the high standards of the US "National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education" (NCATE), according to which university teaching in the field of teacher training should only be carried out by those persons who are currently actively researching the topics of their own courses.

In the area of promoting young talent, we would like to offer particularly talented colleagues the opportunity to gain further academic qualifications with the help of our professional support and by making use of our national and international networks. Finally, we see it as our task to disseminate knowledge about the effectiveness of various approaches to support children and young people with learning disabilities outside of the university.