Reference framework for school quality presented in Baden-Württemberg

The Ministry of Culture and the Institute for Education Analysis Baden-Württemberg (IBBW) presented the reference framework for school quality in Baden-Württemberg (BW). This should serve to have a common understanding of what is meant by good education in the country. Schools should be based on the reference framework in the future.

to improve the quality of school education, a common understanding of good education is first required. Here is the new Reference framework school quality bw The representatives of the educational system in Baden-Württemberg, from school administration, from up to the teacher associations. That Institute for Education Analysis developed and described on behalf of the Ministry of Cultural Baden-Württemberg is understood by school and lessons. The reference framework should give schools orientation in future school and teaching development and is a binding compass for data-based quality development in the school system. In the implementation, the schools are supported by the Center for School quality and teacher training (ZSL) become.

Education Minister Theresa Schopper

understanding and acceptance are important

At a kick -off event, the Ministry of Education and the IBBW informed about the reference framework as well as about the further phases of participation, communication and implementation. For school quality development, the framework of reference takes into account the framework of the school, the processes (in class, in the collaboration, in management and in data -based quality development) and the results of the school. This system of the three fields is also taken up in other instruments of school quality development such as the school -related leaflet. In addition to the IBBW, an important partner in the reference framework for school quality is the ZSL, which offers schools and teachers the necessary support through further training and advice.

Minister of Education Theresa Schopper emphasized the importance of a broad participation in order to incorporate important feedback from school administration, teacher training, schools, associations and others involved in school life. Before the reference framework instrument is introduced in schools, it should be discussed at a broad level. "It is important to me that we make innovations and measures understandable and exchange ideas with the participants," says Theresa Schopper and adds: "It is about understanding, understanding and acceptance so that we can perceive our future task together." The presentation of the reference framework is therefore followed by a participation phase and a subsequent extensive communication and implementation phase.

The state government has committed itself to the Baden-Württemberg quality concept in education in the coalition agreement. There, "a binding reference framework 'school quality BW' for school and teaching development [to] develop and lead a [to]

Institute for Education Analysis Baden-Württemberg: reference frame for school quality in Baden-Württemberg