The city helps migrants with tutoring. © Dpa
Since September 2020, the city has been trying to help students with migration backgrounds who have had even more problems maintaining class levels because of Corona.
Germering – Among other things, a special support and tutoring model was introduced, which was obviously successful.
The "Educational Coordination" project, which was launched almost three years ago, is intended to compensate for school deficits of migrant children through targeted support, according to urban integration specialist Manuel Leupold. Corona was only one occasion. The number of affected children in need of tutoring has risen sharply overall since 2020. German children can also take advantage of the offers, but this is rather the exception.
The funding is organized by the education coordinator Silvia Piott. According to Leupold, she has determined the need for support, applied for financial resources, procured staff for tutoring and held numerous discussions with parents and teachers.
Students in action
There are now 19 students working as tutors, many of whom have a migration background themselves. This also has the effect that they are seen as role models by the students. The helpers are in close contact with the teachers and can thus work specifically to reduce school deficits.
At the primary schools, 20 pupils were looked after individually by the students last year. In addition, 22 primary school pupils were supported in six small groups. In two groups, high-achieving children were also made fit for the transition to secondary schools. According to Leupod, the others were about "stabilizing the children academically and psychologically".
At the Wittelsbach Middle School, it also turned out that the graduating classes have a high need for support. With the help of funds from the federal government's Corona aid, a support group was therefore set up to make the young people fit for mathematics.
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Twelve pupils were supervised by three tutors so intensively that they were able to improve their grades considerably, as the vice-principal of the Wittelsbach Middle School, Edda Fackler, reports: "The tutoring has a lasting positive effect on the pupils. Thanks to the extremely good nature of the tutors, they have also been able to overcome their fear of taking exams in mathematics."
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From October 2022, two groups were activated again because of these positive experiences, Edda Fackler continues: "The young people were supported in math in order to achieve the qualifying secondary school leaving certificate on the one hand and the intermediate school leaving certificate on the other."
The successful aid was also made possible by close cooperation between several institutions. In addition to the city's Office for Migration and Integration, the schools, lunchtime care and after-school care centres, Germeringer Insel, the Education and Participation Centre and youth social work are also involved in the schools. The project, which is to be continued, was and is financed by the district, the community foundation for the district and the Edeltraud-Haberle Foundation, among others.
They make the students fit for the qualifiers
In the "Fit for Quali" group of the Wittelsbach Middle School, young people with a migration background are prepared for graduation. The fact that the tutors often come from non-German families themselves has further increased the success of the project. The young people in care rate the tutoring very positively.
One student says: "When I started the tutoring group, I was between 4 and 5 in math. I have improved because the tutors explain everything in detail. I also like the fact that they are still young people, almost our age. They understand us better."
One student sees it similarly: "I was able to improve a lot in the group. This was because my questions could be answered. The tutors took time for each and every one of us. I was able to improve from grade 5 to grade 3."
Another student explains: "I like to go to tutoring because it is well explained. The tutors control our tasks and improve us. I already have an apprenticeship contract as an automotive mechatronics technician."
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