State informs schools about funding program Learning with tailwind

The Ministry of Culture has informed the schools about the "Learning with tailwind" funding program. “Learning with tailwind” is a comprehensive package of measures that should ensure that students can network again.

The pandemic and the very restless school year with phases of presence, change and distant lessons have left their mark on the students. As a result, there are significant learning gaps in children and adolescents. The compensation of the learning gaps is of great importance for the state government. In addition to the programs "Bridge the gap" as well as "Learning bridges" and the Summer Schools In the summer vacation there will be a bundestone program in the coming school year Baden-Württemberg "Learning with back wind" to provide. The Ministry of Culture sent the schools for this program on July 16.

"We have to compensate for the learning gaps that have arisen with the students. With 'Learning with tailwind' we put a comprehensive package of measures with which we want to ensure that students can make friendships again," said Minister of Culture Theresa Schopper . The program has two focuses: “On the one hand, we naturally want to work on the professional skills of the students and help them close to learning gaps. On the other hand, we want to strengthen the children and adolescents in their social-emotional skills and help them to get ready with a pandemy-related stress.

Registration portal for employees and cooperation partners is set up

For this important task, schools and teachers need additional support. In order to support the schools in the acquisition of suitable persons and/or cooperation partners, the Ministry of Culture is currently working on a Registration portal . This portal is intended to merge database -based schools as well as suitable persons and cooperation partners. In the coming week, the Ministry of Culture will also set up a landing page for learning with a tailwind funding program, about which all information-for example at the time, the announced support measures and the recruitment of people-will be available.

concentrate on the class levels that are relevant for the decision to go to school

Learning in the program with a tailwind is a special focus on those class levels that are particularly relevant for a decision about the way to school. These are the fourth grade of the primary school, the ninth and tenth grade of secondary level I and the high school diploma. A focus is also on the transition system in the professional area. Of course, all pupils with a pandeme -related support requirement in all other grades, courses and in the preparatory classes are of course adequately taken into account. This should be done through support offers both during school and in cooperation with, for example, school social work, youth welfare and other institutions. It should also be possible to use the all -day offers.

IBBW and ZSL support with learning progress surveys and accompanying materials

to support the teachers in determining the learning status of the students, Institute for Bildungs analysis Baden-Württemberg (Ibbw) offer various diagnostic procedures and test instruments. Among other things, the learning status surveys are carried out at the beginning of the school year Learning level 5 , Vera 3 and Vera 8 , which should help the teachers to determine the level of learning of the students.

based on the respective learning deficit of a student, a specific funding offer should then be made. For this, this will be Center for school quality and teacher training (ZSL) provide suitable learning materials, which are particularly designed to promote the basic competencies. In addition, the ZSL works on specific training courses and overviews on important focus issues so that the funding program can be optimally and precisely implemented.

All important information can be found on the registration portal from next week.

wide package of measures against learning congestion

"Learning with a tailwind" is part of a wide range of measures with which the state government deals with the learning delays created by Corona pandemic.

The “Bridge the Gap” program started after the Pentecost holidays is currently still running until the summer vacation. In this program, teacher students support students with up to four hours of care per week at schools near their university. There are around 450 students at 300 locations.

During the summer vacation, the Ministry of Culture offers the learning bridges known from last year. The learning bridges take place in the last two weeks of the summer vacation. In four learning hours a day, the students learn under the guidance of teachers, teacher students, students and pensioners. Last year, around 61,000 students took part in the learning bridges.

The established summer school also takes place during the summer vacation. These combine them with a varied holiday program and usually take place in one of the last two weeks of the summer vacation. This year, 82 locations with around 3,000 students are expected to take part.