Didactic Workshop at the University of Erfurt: Learning and teaching space for general studies revitalised

The Didactic Workshop was reopened today following further conceptual and spatial development and invites all student teachers to try things out there and realise their own projects. In particular, the workshop strengthens the link between theory and practice in technical general studies and educational garden teaching and is an important component of teacher training at the Faculty of Education.

The focus is on an action-oriented learning concept that enables students not only to develop teaching content theoretically, but also to try it out under supervision in experimental settings and reflect on it didactically.

Experimental learning environments are particularly important in general studies and school lessons, which combine various scientific and technical disciplines, in order to prepare complex content in a way that is understandable and suitable for children. The workshop therefore plays an important role in primary school education. Students can use teaching materials and entire class sets and thus familiarise themselves with methods of discovery-based learning in practice. "The workshop is a place to try things out: our aim is to enable students to prepare scientific and technical content in a didactic way so that they can get children excited about these topics and encourage them to learn through exploration themselves," says Dr Andreas Michael Raith, who supervises the didactics of the laboratory.

With this further development, the University of Erfurt is strengthening its practice-orientated teacher training and creating a permanent place of learning to prepare for future teaching practice.