Future Centre of Teacher Education (ZZL)
The Future Centre of Teacher Education (Zukunftszentrum Lehrkräftebildung ZZL) is a research centre at Leuphana University Lüneburg. With a view to social change and future challenges, Leuphana University Lüneburg is constantly engaged in improving the training of prospective teachers. ZZL plays an innovative and coordinating role in the process. The centre structures, analyses, and continuously develops existing and new initiatives.
In line with the universities' third mission, the Future Center for Teacher Education is particularly keen to improve the knowledge transfer between the university and the region through projects, events and initiatives that interlink theory and practice.
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Current projects
LERN-IF
The project ‘Learning process-accompanying diagnostics and learning-promoting performance feedback in inclusive subject teaching’ (LERN-IF) aims to further develop the quality of teaching in inclusive subject teaching in an evidence-based manner using the subject mathematics as an experiment example.
LERN-IF at Leuphana University Lüneburg is funded by the federal and state governments with funds from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
lernen:digital collaborative projects
The competence network lernen:digital fosters the dialog between research and practice for the digital transformation of schools and teacher training in the four competence areas STEM, languages/society/business, music/art/sport and school development. Leuphana University of Lüneburg is involved in two projects in the competence area “Music/Art/Sport”: ComᵉArts and DiDiPro. The projects are funded by the Federal Government and the Federal States with funds provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Development teams
Since January 2024, the Dean's Office of the School of Education has been continuously promoting co-constructive collaboration between academics, school representatives, teachers, students, and other educational partners of Leuphana University Lüneburg in so-called development teams.
Multi-professional work in development teams was previously a fixed component and outstanding feature of the Future Centre of Teacher Education Network (1st and 2nd funding phase) as well as of the Codip project.
Multiview
Multiview is a video platform with authentic, multi-perspective teaching videos for the professionalisation of student teachers and for research purposes.
The development and testing of Multiview was an integral part of the project Future Centre of Teacher Education Network (1st and 2nd funding phase). The Dean's Office of the School of Education has continued to fund the video platform since January 2024.
Completed ZZl projects
Codip – Competencies for Digitally-Enhanced Individualised Practice in subject teaching
2020-2023
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the ‘Quality Initiative Teacher Training’ (Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung) programme of the federal and state governments
Second funding phase ZZL network
2019-2023
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the ‘Quality Initiative Teacher Training’ programme of the federal and state governments
First funding phase ZZL network
2016-2019
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the ‘Quality Initiative Teacher Training’ programme of the federal and state governments
Project ‘MINT teacher training’
2014-2017
Funded by Deutsche Telekom Foundation as part of the overall ‘MINT teacher training’ project
Concept competition “Nah dran! – Die Praxis als Vorbild”
Project period 03.2015-02.2016
Funded by the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany (Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft)
Leuphana Teacher Training - Concept of teacher training for the school as an environment of learning 2020
2013-2016
Funded by the Donors' Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany and Nixdorf Foundation within the scope of the funding programme ‘The Teacher Initiative’
Future Education Days
16-17 October 2015
ZZL report 2013-2015
Prof. Dr. Michael Besser
Universitätsallee 1, C16.020
21335 Lüneburg
Fon +49.4131.677-2095
michael.besser@leuphana.de
Prof. Dr. Timo Ehmke
Universitätsallee 1, C1.233
21335 Lüneburg
Fon +49.4131.677-1677
timo.ehmke@leuphana.de
Prof. Dr. Timo Ehmke
Universitätsallee 1, C1.233
21335 Lüneburg
Fon +49.4131.677-1677
timo.ehmke@leuphana.de
Prof. Dr. Jessica Süßenbach
Universitätsallee 1, C16.106b
21335 Lüneburg
Fon +49.4131.677-2790
jessica.suessenbach@leuphana.de
Dr. Sandra Fischer-Schöneborn
Universitätsallee 1, C1.002
21335 Lüneburg
Fon +49.4131.677-1621
sandra.fischer-schoeneborn@leuphana.de