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Patron Frank-Walter Steinmeier: "The pandemic exposes our weaknesses in the education system"
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Seven excellent schools from Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia have been awarded the German School Prize this year.
With the special edition of the renowned competition, the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Heidehof Foundation, in cooperation with ARD and the »Zeit« publishing group, are honoring the best school concepts that arose during the Corona period.
The prize is endowed with 10,000 euros each.
Eleven other finalists will receive a recognition award of 5,000 euros.
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Generation Corona: What we have to do now for our children
At the award ceremony, Federal President and Patron Frank-Walter Steinmeier said: “Germany is not where it should be.
The pandemic exposes our weaknesses in the education system. ”But he also knows that the pandemic has produced creative strengths: At many schools, school principals have not complained, but have rethought and acted courageously in a very short time.
"In this difficult time, many people outgrow themselves to be there for their students."
The chairman of the board of management of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, Joachim Rogall, said: "Despite all the efforts, the pandemic was a wake-up call for many schools." In recent months, courage, drive and creativity have turned these schools into a laboratory of ideas for a sustainable school system.
The winners - sorted by topic
Shaping relationships effectively
Last year, the Alter Teichweg elementary and district school in Hamburg distributed learning materials and school lunches with the handcart, held lessons at the open window and brought the school's special sense of community to the living room of the school with the YouTube show "Dulsberg Late Night" Families brought.
Promoting
fairness in
education
During the Corona crisis, the primary school in the Dichterviertel in Mülheim an der Ruhr in North Rhine-Westphalia developed new structures and formats for digital learning.
In this way, the children who do not receive any support from their parents in learning were also enabled to work independently.
Implement digital solutions
IGS Lengede in Lower Saxony was able to build on a digital, operating system-independent toolbox during lockdown and develop its teaching further.
The school is pursuing a central motive: equal opportunities.
Supporting all pupils individually
The mosaic school in Marburg, Hesse, reached children and young people with special educational needs even during school closings.
Here all children learn to use digital media and to work independently.
Establishing sustainable networks
During the lockdown, the Evangelical Gymnasium Nordhorn in Lower Saxony managed to transfer its cooperation with extracurricular partners such as the University of Göttingen into the digital space and even to expand its school networks internationally.
Enabling self-organized learning
With individual learning plans, log books and learning offices, the Münster-Mitte Municipal School in North Rhine-Westphalia succeeded in its first lockdown in transferring its concept of independent learning to digital space and further developing it there.
Strengthening cooperation in teams
Thanks to professional teamwork, the Städtische Gesamtschule Körnerplatz in Duisburg did not lose pupils from socially disadvantaged families during the Corona crisis, but motivated them to learn - with a staff half made up of lateral entrants.
The German School Prize has been awarded by the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Heidehof Foundation for particularly good school quality since 2006.
366 schools in Germany and German schools abroad had applied for the special edition of the prize in the corona crisis.
121 schools made it into the next round, 18 schools finally made it to the final round after being selected by the jury.
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