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The Department of Practical School Studies at the Centre for Teacher Education is responsible for the organization, implementation and further development of practical school studies as part of the teacher training courses. This is done in cooperation with the departments involved in teacher training. The department maintains contact with the schools in Kassel and the region and works together with the teachers at the practical training schools. In the further development of practical school studies, it endeavors to provide students with a more intensive and effective form of theory-practice connection. In addition to the regular forms, there are currently also special internships in which special pedagogical focuses of the internship schools are included in the practical school studies (e.g. learning workshops or the supervision of individual pupils). The special internship is characterized by a specific research project of the university supervisors (e.g. observation of the learning development of individual pupils from a didactic point of view). Another special form is the intensive internship. Here, the previous block internship and the practical school studies in one subject are combined in terms of content, organization and personnel. In this way, the process of becoming a teacher can be guided and accompanied by educational science and subject didactics at the same time.

Together with the Universities of Frankfurt (a. M.) and Giessen, the University of Kassel is participating in the pilot project for the practical semester. In Kassel, according to the law, student teachers on the L1 and L2 courses who start their studies in the winter semester 2014/15 will take part in the pilot project.

The Department of Interdisciplinary Primary School Education at the Center for Teacher Education initiates and coordinates interdisciplinary tasks for the entire field of primary school education. Its area of responsibility extends to questions of teaching, research and development, the promotion of young academics and the transfer of knowledge, in particular:

• Coordination tasks for the L1 degree program as a whole,
• Further development of interdisciplinary dialog through interdisciplinary events,
• Research and development on school and teaching in the primary sector, particularly from an interdisciplinary perspective - including childhood research and professional research,
• addressing issues relating to the transition between pre-school facilities, elementary school and secondary institutions,
• Collective promotion of young academics in the aforementioned research areas, including the continuation of the interdisciplinary doctoral program in primary school research,
• Cooperation with schools in the region and with nationally and internationally significant school reform initiatives,
• Advice on school and KITA development,
• Expansion of the primary school workshop for study and research purposes as well as in the context of knowledge transfer, primarily for school and KITA colleges and for the further development of workshop pedagogy in coordination with the university's other study workshops.