Specialist rooms

The work studies course for the teaching profession at Hauptschule, Realschule and Gesamtschule (lower secondary level) combines subject-specific fundamentals with practice-oriented training. A central component is the work in the three typical specialist rooms - wood workshop, metal workshop and teaching kitchen. In these authentic learning environments, students not only acquire craft and home economics skills, but also learn how to design activity-oriented and differentiated lessons for heterogeneous learning groups.

The wood workshop teaches basic woodworking techniques - from sawing and sanding to working with machines. The students deal with safety aspects, materials science and the didactic reduction of technical content in order to introduce pupils to working with wood in an age-appropriate and practical way.

In the metal workshop, the focus is on learning elementary machining processes such as filing, drilling and bending. The prospective teachers not only reflect on the technical implementation, but also on how they can integrate these processes into lessons at lower secondary level in a student-oriented way - taking into account safety requirements and educational objectives.

The teaching kitchen provides a space for dealing with nutrition, household management and consumer behavior. Students learn how to pedagogically prepare real-life topics such as healthy eating, eating culture and sustainable consumption and translate them into a variety of teaching situations.