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Develop teaching –
    strengthen schools
    The Institute’s functions
    and services

                                            www.iqsh.de

Schleswig-Holstein. Germany´s True North.

Our paramount interest is to provide      Learning from and with each other in
teachers in Schleswig-Holstein with       a climate of appreciation is funda-
qualified vocational education and        mental to this. Therefore, the cooper-
training, continuing as well as further   ation with teaching staff and school
education and training, and to            directors, with the Ministry of
provide qualified counselling for         Education and school supervisory
schools.                                  authorities, with parents‘ and pupils‘
                                          representatives, with science, business
This is how we strive to support          and institutions forms the basis of our
teachers and schools in their daily       work.
task of encouraging and challenging
pupils in the best possible way.          We cordially invite you to take
                                          advantage of our services.
Schools in Schleswig-Holstein are
shaped by committed teachers and
school communities. Good schools          Dr. Gesa Ramm
grow with the challenges and              Director
continue to develop their teaching.

We strive to reinforce impulses for
good teaching and good schools and
offer a wide range of professional and
pedagogical qualification as well as
consultancy services to this end –
above all, this includes teacher edu-
cation and (further) training, school
development and the provision of
counselling services to schools in
using digital media in teaching.

Initial Teacher training and
qualification

Every year 1,000 teachers are trained      The IQSH supports schools in their
for five different teaching careers in     teacher training by offering
Schleswig-Holstein. They start teaching    – Qualification services for training
in schools after their studies.               teachers regarding pedagogical
                                              and didactic issues;
The training during the preparatory        – Services for school directors on
service lasts for 18 months and is            questions related to training regu-
organized by IQSH‘s Directors of              lations and their implementation as
Studies as well as the schools‘ teacher       well as on issues concerning the
trainers. It is based on compulsory           state examination.
training standards and is completed
with the state examination.                A systematic approach in evaluating
                                           the effectiveness of the various training
The objectives of the preparatory          modules stipulated by the training
service are to promote                     regulations is a prerequisite for quality
– Teaching skills (didactics, diagnos-     assurance and further development.
   tics, individual support, continuous    This is why the IQSH regularly evalu-
   language training, media compe-         ates the practical training period
   tence);                                 and constantly exchanges views with
– Educational and counselling com-         teachers in their preparatory service.
   petence (dealing with learning and
   behavioural difficulties, prevention,   Head of Department
   intercultural education, media 		       Dr. Maike Abshagen
   education);                             Phone: +49 431 5403-120
– The ability to actively participate in   E-mail:
   the further development of              maike.abshagen@iqsh.landsh.de
   teaching and school work;
– The ability to systematically evalu-
   ate, reflect and further develop
   one‘s own work.

Further education and training

The IQSH is responsible for the con-      – State-wide projects, such as e. g.
tinuing education and training of the       “Leave no one behind / Reading
approximately 28,000 teachers of all        makes you strong / Maths makes
school types in Schleswig-Holstein.         you strong”, SINUS-SH, Education
                                            for Sustainable Development,
Its aim is to strengthen and develop        Didactic Training, Barrier-free
the professional knowledge of all           Schools;
teaching staff. The courses on offer      – Qualification of managers and
take into account current priorities        future managers;
in educational policy and societal        – State-wide symposia and congres-
developments such as inclusion and          ses (also regionally), carried out in
digitisation.                               cooperation with universities and
                                            other partners;
Therefore, focal points are:              – Further education and training for
– Quality development and assur-            teachers regarding lesson develop-
  ance in the schools and in                ment for their subjects and concern-
  teaching in view of an inclusive 		       ing general pedagogical topics
  school;                                   such as violence, mobbing, healthy
– Reinforcement of the pedagogical          schools, and gifted and talented
  work;                                     education;
– Learning with the help of digital 		    – Support services for the work of
  media in specialist classes.              parents‘ associations.

The IQSH’s further education and train-   The further education and training
ing services aim to generate sustain-     catalogue, published annually, pre-
able professionalization effects.         sents the focal points of further edu-
For this reason, special emphasis is      cation and the respective school
placed on longer-term continued           year’s current projects.
training courses such as certificate
courses. All offers are evaluated         The entire range of further education
regularly and optimised on the basis      and training courses is available
of these evaluation results.              through the Formix online booking
                                          system (formix.info).
Among others, the services provided
include:                                  Head of Department
– Further training measures in sub-       Petra Fojut
   jects, specialist fields and subject   Phone: +49 431 5403-132
   areas for which no suitably trained    E-mail: petra.fojut@iqsh.landsh.de
   teachers are available;

School development and education monitoring

The IQSH offers counselling services        Among others, the services provided
in terms of school development for          include:
the approximately 800 schools in            – Counselling and professional
Schleswig-Holstein. The counselling            support in the formulation, imple-
services comprise assistance in estab-         mentation and evaluation of the
lishing annual work plans and school           school programme;
programmes, as well as assistance           – Assistance and moderation of
with the internal evaluation of central        internal school projects and devel-
work areas.                                    opment schemes;
                                            – Schulfeedback.SH;
Schulfeedback.SH is a dialogue-             – Comparative studies, comparative
oriented and voluntary evaluation              works, central school leaving de-
permitting schools to take an external         grees for “Sek I” (“Sekundarstufe I”,
perspective in order to come to a              classes 5 to 10), large-scale assess-
well-founded assessment regarding              ments.
the quality of their work. Schools may
choose their own focus of observation       Head of Department
here.                                       Dr. Jens Winkel
                                            Phone:+49 431 5403-130
In cooperation with the Ministry of         E-mail:
Education, the curricula are continu-       jens.winkel@iqsh.landsh.de
ously developed further into subject-
specific requirements. These form the
basis of the work in the subjects.

The achievement of the goals and
standards is monitored at state-level
through school performance studies
and evaluation studies. Comparative
work, test materials, a portal for online
tests and the survey platform LeOniE.SH
are available for the internal evaluation
of the schools.

Digitisation and IT services

The IQSH advises schools on the use       – Technical support and editorial
of digital media in the classroom and       assistance for the IQSH website
in their conceptual media work, as          (among others iqsh.de,
well as school boards in their media        za.schleswig-holstein.de,
development planning at municipal           fachportal.lernnetz.de,
level. Schools are assisted in the          medienberatung.iqsh.de);
digitisation of their teaching and ad-    – Assistance with school home pages;
ministration through the development      – Operation of the state-wide solu-
and operation of technical solutions        tion Schul-CommSy as an online
as well as through a comprehensive          platform for school organisation
range of further education and              and lesson teaching;
training courses. Digital support sys-    – Counselling of schools and school
tems and the necessary infrastructure       maintaining bodies on the imple-
are provided for the organisation           mentation of school administration
and implementation of the IQSH‘s            solutions in the state education
(continuing) vocational education and       network in compliance with data
training tasks.                             protection regulations;
                                          – Infrastructure management and
                                            support (help desk for schools) in
Among others, the services provided         the state-wide education network.
include
– The media centre with over 		           Head of Department
   30,000 digital educational media       Werner Hendricks
   (https://sh.edupool.de);               Phone: +49 431 5403-255
– Technical solutions and further 		      E-mail:
   training on “teaching and learning     werner.hendricks@iqsh.landsh.de
   online”;
– Media workshops for testing digital
   teaching models;
– Counselling and further training of
   schools in the application of media
   in both theoretical and pedagogic-
   al terms as well as in the use of IT
   in schools and lessons;
– Counselling school maintaining
   bodies and schools on implement-
   ing the DigitalPakt (Digital Pact);
– Development and operation of
   Internet-based information and
   administration systems (among
   others, Formix, PerLIV, LeOniE.SH,
   school database);

School Type Representatives            Administration and Controlling

The School Type Representatives are    The Administration and Controlling
contact persons for all school type-   Department is responsible for the
related matters.                       Institute’s central administrative and
                                       controlling tasks. It also functions as
Primary schools                        a service and support system for all
Gudrun Zimmermann                      other IQSH departments. In detail, the
Phone: +49 431 5403-265                department performs the following
E-mail:                                tasks for the Institute:
gudrun.zimmermann@iqsh.landsh.de       – Personnel Management
                                       – Finances and Controlling
Comprehensive schools                  – Procurement
Lars Hansen                            – Event and Information Technology
Phone: +49 431 5403-306                – Organisation, Central Services
E-mail: lars.hansen@iqsh.landsh.de     – Library
                                       – Public Relations, IQSH publications
Grammar schools
Ulf Jesper                             Head of Department
Phone: +49 431 5403-275                Gudrun Lütje
E-mail: ulf.jesper@iqsh.landsh.de      Phone: +49 431 5403-333
                                       E-mail: gudrun.luetje@iqsh.landsh.de
Special needs education /
Special needs learning centres
Achim Rix
Phone: +49 431 5403-108
E-mail: achim.rix@iqsh.landsh.de

IQSH Publications                                      Library

With its practice-oriented publications,               In addition to the current school books,
the IQSH intends to support work in                    professional journals, specialist litera-
schools and provide impulses for                       ture and teaching materials, our media
good teaching and school develop-                      services also include master theses.
ment. The IQSH’s list of all publications              Users may browse the available publi-
is also available in digital form.                     cations online, make reservations and
                                                       search for or extend borrowed media
Orders                                                 on the Internet.
The print versions of our brochures
may be ordered at:                                     Christiane Fehring
https://publikationen.iqsh.de/                         Phone: +49 431 5403-277
They are also available digitally.                     E-mail: buecherei@iqsh.landsh.de

Celine Cantzler                                        Media and Public Relations /
Phone: +49 431 5403-148                                Publications

Stefanie Pape                                          Petra Haars
Phone: +49 431 5403-158                                Phone: +49 431 5403-103
                                                       E-mail: petra.haars@iqsh.landsh.de
E-mail: publikationen@iqsh.landsh.de

january 2021
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