Studying & teaching
Within the teaching portfolio of the Research Group “School Education within the Context of Heterogeneity”, the courses below are offered: “teaching and didactics in heterogeneous learning groups”, “education diagnostics”, “transformation processes in the education system”, “laboratory of field studies (LaG)” in addition to courses addressing questions of diversity studies.
How the courses are incorporated into the study regulations can be looked up in the module handbooks for the respective degree programmes (such as Bachelor of Arts Pädagogik (pedagogy), Master of Arts Bildungswissenschaften (educational sciences), Teacher Education for Vocational Schools B.Ed/M.Ed and Teacher Education for Secondary Schools (LaG) etc.).
Athene Award for Good Teaching 2025
Professor Dr. Katja Adl-Amini and Dr. Maria Theresa Meßner received the departmental award for good teaching on 19 November 2025. The award recognised the simulation-based seminar concept developed, implemented and evaluated as part of an RMU teaching project to prepare students in educational sciences for the newly introduced practical semester in the Teacher Education for Secondary Schools (LaG) programme. During three block days and two simulation rounds, students explore how schools currently operate and how they should operate, reflect on their experiences, and develop specific research questions for research-based learning during their practical placement.
More information about the Athene Award for Good Teaching can be found here.
Athene Award for Good Teaching 2023
On 22 November 2023, Professor Dr. Katja Adl-Amini and Dr. Florian Cristóbal Klenk from the Research Group School Education within the Context of Heterogeneity, together with Dr. Ruth Maria Mell from the Centre for Teacher Education, received the Athene Award for Good Teaching in the category “Special Award for Gender- and Diversity-Sensitive Teaching”.
They received the award for their initiative to develop an interdisciplinary, cross-subject digital learning module on the construction of difference in the school context.
Practical Period Meeting
When studying to become a teacher, several laboratories of field studies and school practical studies at school are part of the curriculum. These practical periods are prepared and followed-up in supportive seminars. To ensure consistent teaching of contents and core competencies across all modules taught within a teacher education programme and the laboratory of field studies and school practical studies, these practical period meetings were established as a network of the teaching staff in teacher education programmes (professors and research associates (WiMi) of the university and seconded teachers providing support in the practical periods). During this laboratory meeting, cross-sectional contents, university teaching methodology and research projects on teaching are being introduced and discussed. The aim is to offer students a progressive teaching programme that does not overlap in content.
