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EU-Project "International Teaching Clinic Network (ITCN)"

The international EU project ‘International Teaching Clinic Network’ of Professor Dr. Elena Stamouli runs from October 2023 to October 2026. The three-year EU project is funded by Erasmus+.

What is the aim of the Teaching Clinic?
The aim of the Teaching Clinic (TC) is the knowledge and competences transfer from university to practice and then back to the university. This research project claims to overcome the gap between educational practice and theory. It tackles the combined needs of students, such as the wish for more formal experiences directly in the school context and obtaining well-transferable competences and knowledge, and teachers, who do not have enough time and the resources, however they may want more direct access to the state-of-the-art knowledge and support in implementing pedagogical innovations.

Partners: University of Vienna, Austria; University College for Agricultural and Environmental Education, Austria; University of Ioannina, Greece; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; State University of Surabaya, Indonesia.

How does the Teaching Clinic work?
In the Teaching Clinic are implemented semester-long courses in which students collaborate with teachers on pedagogical innovations in the teachers’ classrooms through design based research and service-learning creating meaningful learning engagements.
Regardless of the type of school, teachers are daily confronted with professional challenges. However, they often have neither the time nor the resources to deal with them adequately. Teachers can submit in an online platform challenges from everyday school life (such as the use of flexible teaching concepts, tools for feedback, dealing with heterogeneity in the classroom and organizing parent-teacher conferences) to the TC in the form of questions. In the TC, students deal with the questions submitted and combine research-based and case-based learning with practical solutions and options for action. Students support practicing teachers who are seeking advice by designing teaching and learning resources and methods based on current knowledge and testing their effectiveness in schools.

    
Contact:  Prof. Dr. Elena Stamouli www.uni-regensburg.de/human-sciences/educational-science-2/staff/elena-stamouli/index.html, Faculty of Human Sciences, E-Mail: eleni.stamouli@ur.de, and teachingclinic@uni-regensburg.de

SOSNetLab - A Smart Toolkit for Knowledge Brokers to Visualize Social Opportunity Spaces

From 01.02.2022 - 31.01.2025, the Chair of Education II is part of an international project entitled "SOSNetLab - A Smart Toolkit for Knowledge Brokers to Visualize Social Opportunity Spaces". The project, which will run for three years, is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The central objective of the SOSNetLab project is to build an innovative Learning Recommender that will enable a better understanding of social network structures, the distribution, and dissemination of information and experiences, and thus contribute to making knowledge resources better and more appropriately available to local communities.

The specific objectives of this project are rooted in a participatory design and will develop, test, and evaluate both off- and online tools. To this end, a mixed-methods approach will be adopted, including design sprints, social network analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, and qualitative interviews. In addition, a series of training activities and workshops will be designed and implemented for the use of the Learning Recommender.

Partners: University of California, San Diego, USA; Utah State University, USA; Transcend, USA; High Tech High, USA; YouCubed (Stanford University), USA; Multilingual Learner Leadership and Policy Institute, USA; American Museum of Natural History, USA; NordThird, USA; SkyRocket Software, USA; Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spanien

In case of interest or general questions, please contact Dr. Martin Rehm.

Project EXITE "Experiencing International Teacher Education" as part of the BMBF projects "KOLEG" (granted for 3,5 years)

(Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung/ Federal Ministry for Education and Research)

This research project, which is carried out in cooperation with the International Office and the Europaeum of the University of Regensburg, is focusing on the improvement of student teachers competence regarding dealing with cultural and performance diversity within the classroom. The effects of the internships at school outside Germany of teacher education students of all kinds of subjects of the University of Regensburg will be investigated. The activities of the students will be investigated as well as the effect of the increased mobility of student teachers on dealing with cultural and performance diversity.

Project Staff: Sebastian Gerbeth

DFG-Project granted for 2,5 years

(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/ German Scientific Foundation)

"Dynamics of team learning processes, products, and their determinants in the work of vocational teachers"

Research on team learning lacks studies addressing temporal and multilevel aspects of learning in teams, as well as insights into affective and socio-cognitive elements of relevant intrateam communication processes. The project at hand aims at closing these research gaps. Based on the integrative, systemic model of team learning it relates dynamic aspects of contextual factors to dynamics in team learning processes, shared mental models, and innovative work behaviour of innovation teams consisting of teachers in vocational education. By means of a cross-sectional and a longitudinal field study, which will be accompanied by a qualitative study combining observations and video analyses, the project at hand aims at clarifying the relationship between contextual factors and team learning processes, as well as the relationship between team learning processes, shared mental models, and innovative work behaviour of innovation teams in vocational schools. With vocational education, this project focuses on an underrepresented domain in research on team learning. Based on the results of the three studies it is planned that an intervention program will be developed in order to support vocational schools in fostering successful team learning and teamwork.

Project Staff: →Verena Watzek, →Andreas Widmann