Deadline: 15-Feb-23
Nominations are now open for the German School Award 2023.
With the German School Award 2023, Der Deutsche Schulpreis are putting the following question at the center of the call for entries: How do you design high-quality teaching and learning at your school?
The basis of the German School Award is the six quality areas. The focus of the call for proposals is the quality area of teaching quality, whereby they assume that high-quality teaching and learning processes are not limited to the formal learning environment of the classroom.
In addition, they assume that high-quality teaching and learning – based on the extended concept of learning – pursues technical, interdisciplinary and personal as well as social and methodical educational goals. They are looking for schools that do justice to all students and prepare them for the future in the best possible way.
Six Quality Areas
- Teaching Quality
- The German School Award is looking for schools that formulate a well-founded understanding of quality and ensure that all students develop their professional, interdisciplinary and personal skills in a variety of learning forms, both inside and outside the classroom.
- Performance
- The German School Award looks for schools that achieve special technical and interdisciplinary achievements compared to their starting position.
- Dealing with Diversity
- The German School Award is looking for schools that have found ways and means to productively deal with the different educational and learning requirements, interests, achievement opportunities and the diversity of the students inside and outside of the classroom.
- Responsibility
- The German School Prize looks for schools in which respectful interaction with one another and non-violent conflict resolution are not only postulated, but also advocated by the school community and implemented in everyday life.
- School climate, school life and extracurricular partners
- The German School Award looks for schools with a positive school climate that is conducive to learning and a stimulating school life in which pupils, teachers and legal guardians feel comfortable and are happy to play an active role.
- School as a learning institution
- The German School Award seeks schools that systematically promote their own development and the professionalization of their teachers on the basis of current knowledge and involve members of the school community in this process.
Funding Information
- All nominated schools receive prize money of 5,000 euros each.
- The second prize-winning schools receive prize money of 30,000 euros each, the main prize is endowed with 100,000 euros.
Eligibility Criteria
- All general education and vocational schools in public or private sponsorship, including German schools abroad, can apply for the German School Prize 2023.
- Schools that have already applied and schools that have previously participated in the German School Prize development program can also apply again. Former award-winning schools and active participants in the development program are not eligible to apply. An exception applies to the award-winning schools of the German School Award 20|21 Special.
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