Training series

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In our increasingly digitalized world, the functional processes of the digital media we use every day are becoming increasingly difficult for most people to understand. Computer science is often perceived as a very complex subject that only a few people can understand. But that doesn't have to be the case! As part of this training course, you will therefore make your first, action-oriented and fun approaches to computer science, build up your own computer science skills, but also develop ideas for teaching a computer science mindset to primary school children and take away concrete concepts for everyday (subject) lessons.

Special prior knowledge in the field of computer science or in dealing with digital media is NOT required.

Participants learn about different approaches to basic computer science education, acquire knowledge about the various approaches and improve their skills in teaching initial computer science content in elementary school subject lessons.

Methodological design: Input phases, practical testing of different approaches, discussion of possible teaching concepts, reflection on practical implementation of the concepts discussed during the training.

 

  • Leader: Marc Heinemann
  • Lecturers: Marc Heinemann
  • Location: Zoom and in presence (blended learning)
  • Costs: Free of charge
  • Registration until 15.01.2026 (please indicate your type of school)
  • Dates:
  • Event: 17.02.26 14:00-17:00 Online
  • Event: 17.03.26 14:00-17:00 Uni Kassel (location Heinrich-Plett-Straße, AVZ)
  • Event: 14.04.26 14:00-17:00 Online
  • Event: 19.05.26 14:00-17:00 Uni Kassel (Location Heinrich-Plett-Straße, AVZ)
  • Event: 16.06.26 14:00-17:00 Uni Kassel (Location Heinrich-Plett-Straße, AVZ)
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The use of artificial intelligence is leading to noticeable changes in lesson design. Many teachers are already using AI-supported tools to create materials or plan lessons - often with the feeling that they are saving time, but not necessarily creating better or more meaningful lessons.

The course is aimed at teachers who want to use artificial intelligence not only as an efficiency tool, but also to further develop their teaching in a conscious, meaningful and pedagogically reflective way. The focus is on the question of how modern language teaching can be designed in such a way that it becomes meaningful for learners - and remains professionally fulfilling for teachers.

The training course combines theoretical impulses, practical testing and peer-to-peer exchange. Your own lessons serve as a starting point: you collect so-called moments of meaning and significance (i.e. situations in which learning is particularly successful, challenging or falters) from your lessons.

In a first workshop, you will learn how to systematically reflect on these experiences and develop concrete teaching ideas from them. With the help of an AI-supported lesson constructor, you will create small, flexible teaching scenarios that are specifically geared towards meaning, autonomy and significance.

Between the workshops, you will try out these teaching ideas in your own lessons. The focus will be on noticing developments, moments of surprise and new ways of learning.

In the second workshop, the focus is on exchanging ideas with colleagues and reflecting together. You will analyze how your lessons have developed and what impulses you will take with you into your future practice.

 

What does the training offer me?

  • You will develop concrete, immediately applicable teaching ideas that fit your own teaching context.
  • You will learn how to integrate AI sensibly and responsibly into planning and reflection processes.
  • You will gain new perspectives on your teaching and your own professional role.
  • You will benefit from the exchange with colleagues and take away lasting impulses for your teaching development.
  • Previous technical knowledge is not a prerequisite. Curiosity, openness to reflection and an interest in meaning-oriented teaching are all you need.

 

  • Leader & Speaker: Dr. Yulia Edeleva
  • Dates: April-May 2026; 2 workshops (4 units each) plus independent preparation and follow-up work
  • Location: online

Digital media are shaping the lives of children and young people - and are therefore also changing the teaching culture. This seminar takes a critical and constructive look at this development and asks how digital media can support religious and religion-related learning processes in an inclusive, fair and effective way.

The focus is on the diclusion approach, which considers digital media and inclusion together. Based on a broad understanding of inclusion (which includes all learners), the project explores how digital tools can contribute to taking into account different learning requirements, language levels and forms of expression without reducing religious education.
This is not about purely digital religious education, but about a reflected, pedagogically responsible use of media.

The seminar combines theoretical basics (basic digital education, inclusion, diclusion) with practical testing, including an excursion to the Kassel Media Center (on 23.04.26) and the development of your own digital-inclusive teaching ideas for religious education (which I would very much like to try out with you in class).

Designed as a research workshop, the seminar opens up a space for curiosity, openness, creativity and joint experimentation in a field of religious education that has so far been little explored.


The training takes place as part of a regular university seminar, which students can therefore also register for. It goes without saying that students do not have the same wealth of experience as experienced teachers. However, I am firmly convinced that both teachers and students can inspire each other and offer new perspectives, so that both benefit.


With this in mind, I look forward to meeting you!

The training series is aimed at tandems of specialist teachers and support teachers (support teachers).

Participants learn methods and strategies for implementing cooperative teaching methods that promote learning in heterogeneous school classes.
The participating tandems work together to create the conditions for implementing cooperative learning for learners with social-emotional support needs.
The participating tandems deal with the basics of efficient cooperation between special needs teachers and subject teachers with the aim of improving the quality of teaching. Participants reflect on the implementation of multi-professional cooperation and cooperative teaching methods and adapt these to their own specific requirements.

Joint registration of the tandem partners is desirable.
The training series is scientifically monitored as part of the KleVer research project at the University of Kassel. One of the aims of the monitoring is to continuously adapt the training program to the individual needs of the participating tandems.

Participation is free of charge thanks to project funding. Catering will be provided during the event.

  • Management: Prof. Dr. Natalie Fischer, Prof. Dr. Susanne Jurkowski, Prof. Dr. Timo Lüke
  • Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Natalie Fischer, Prof. Dr. Susanne Jurkowski, Prof. Dr. Timo Lüke, Dr. Katrin Gabriel-Busse, Robin Gleim, Felix Piegsda, N.N.
  • Location: Online and in presence
  • Costs: Free of charge
  • Registration until 17.05.2026
  • Time frame: 4 training groups with tandems of subject teacher and support teacher, 6 modules (2 modules of approx. 4h each, 4 modules of approx. 3h each) spread over the entire school year 26/27
  • Dates: tba
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Sustainability is a central educational goal - but how can it actually be addressed in everyday lessons without adding extra content on top?

The training is aimed at teachers who not only want to plan sustainability-oriented lessons, but also recognize, reflect on and further develop particularly suitable teaching moments. The focus is on the question of how so-called critical teaching moments - such as unexpected student comments, emotional reactions or controversial questions - can serve as productive occasions for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).

Participants learn about central pedagogical approaches suitable for ESD (e.g. learning-by-design, multiliteracies, cooperative learning). With the help of an ESD safari - an innovative observation and reflection tool in the form of AR glasses (for real lesson observation) or a card game - you will reflect on your own lessons specifically from a sustainability perspective. This will reveal where ESD is already in place and where sustainability-related learning impulses can be developed.

In co-creative action lab phases, the participants analyze and reflect on their observations together, develop concrete options for action and transfer these to future teaching situations. The training combines scientifically sound findings with practical methods and offers space for exchange, reflection and peer-to-peer learning.

You will gain

  • a heightened awareness of teaching moments that are relevant to sustainability;
  • more confidence in dealing with open, complex ESD topics;
  • concrete tools for sustainable, linguistically sensitive lesson design;
  • new perspectives on their own lessons as a learning and design space for future skills.

The ESD safari can be used both analog (card game) and digitally (a real lesson observation with AR glasses).

  • Management & speakers: Dr. Yulia Edeleva and Gina Do Manh (TU Braunschweig)
  • Dates: June 2026; 2 workshops (4-6 units each)
  • Location: tba

Since 1984, the Breitenau Memorial has been located on the historic site of a Prussian workhouse, which housed an early concentration camp and a "labor education camp" (AEL) during the Nazi era. Breitenau was the central place of persecution and imprisonment for the town and administrative district of Kassel. Among the approximately 10,000 prisoners between 1933 and 1945 were almost all groups persecuted by the National Socialists, including, according to current knowledge, 186 Jews.

Using sources from the archives of the Breitenau Memorial, it is possible to reconstruct individual biographies of Jewish victims of persecution and those imprisoned in Breitenau (1933-1945) and to identify and examine various forms and effects of anti-Semitism.

After an introductory lecture, participants will examine individual life stories and forms of anti-Semitism on the basis of the sources. They will recognize the different linguistic formulations and everyday actions in which anti-Semitic attitudes were expressed, how these were experienced by the Jewish persecutees and what consequences they had for the people. In addition, the specific examples will show which forms of anti-Semitism influenced the decisions of those in power. In a concluding work phase, approaches for didactically dealing with the knowledge gained will be discussed.

  • Chair: Professor Dr. Christine Pflüger, University of Kassel and Dr. Ann Katrin Düben, Breitenau Memorial Site
  • Speakers: N.N.
  • Date: 25.09./26.09.2026
  • Location: Breitenau Memorial
  • Registration until until 01.09.2026