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Horizontal Learning: Insights & Reflections

from the German Schools Sector

Susanne Peters

Consultant - Central Agency for German Schools Abroad

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Central Agency for Schools Abroad (ZfA)

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German

Academic

Exchange

Service

Educational

Exchange

Service Standing Conference

of the Ministers of Education

and Cultural Affairs of the Länder

in the Federal Republic

of Germany

Federal Office

of Administration /

ZfA

16

federal

states

Goethe

Institute

cultural relations and

education policy

Federal

Foreign

Office

Cultural relations and education policy

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Objectives of the ZfA

Dialogue, exchange and

cooperation between people and

cultures

Creating global networks

Promotion of democracy

Demand-driven cultural work

Providing schools for German

children abroad

Promoting the German language

Contact with the people and

cultures of the host countries

Cooperation in the field of

school education

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ZfA services

proving pedagogical advice

placing teachers

offering further training (courses preparing for work as a teacher,

regional further training activities abroad, trainings to develop the

German Language Certificate)

organizing meetings and conferences for headmasters,

coordinators and heads of administration

carrying out the German Language Certificate

implementing impetus from science

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The ZfA in figures

over 140 German

schools abroad about 1,100

schools where the

German Language

Certificate can be acquired

350,500 pupils

learn German at

schools supported by the

ZfA

2,000 teachers placed

from Germany

20,800 German

pupils

about 4,000 German and international final

examinations

81,800 pupils at German

schools abroad

61,000 non-

German

pupils

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Map of schools worldwide

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Map of schools in Egypt

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German Education in Egypt

• 6 „Deutsche

Auslandsschulen“

(Abitur and GIB)

• 5 DSD Schools

(German Language

Diploma)

• 18 schools with

DSD I and DSD II

• (supported by Goethe)

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contractual matters

further and continuing training

recruiting

selecting

assistance in personnel and financial matters

pedagogical support

placement

Service for teachers abroad

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Teacher training

for local teacher

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Teacher training

for local teacher

Topics:

- What is good teaching?

- Problem-based learning

- Collaborative learning

- Self - directed learning

- Using Feedback

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for the German Schools in Egypt

Strengths, Weaknesses, Challenges, Opportunities

Strengths:

German Abitur

GIB

DSD

-> Access to

German Universities

Weaknesses:

Selective School System

Challenges:

Recruitment of teachers

School development

Opportunities:

Motivated young Egyptians

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Targets for the next years

Developing Schools to

Learning organizations

Sharing good practice

as a part of professional

development of school

leaders and teachers

Meeting the targets of the

future

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“School, in a more narrow but important

sense, is a community of learners,

because we do learn with and from each

other… The thing is, we’ve come to

associate schools with particular types of

institutions which have developed over the

past couple of hundred years.”

Sir Ken Robinson

Learning from each other…

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