Our society and the way we live together are constantly changing. Accordingly, the demands on children and young people in the globalised world are also changing and becoming more demanding and complex.
Imparting knowledge Strengthening competencies – school development is an ongoing process. The school management, the steering group with representatives of the committees and the pedagogical quality management are responsible.
The school community is committed to quality development, internal and external evaluation. The means are a survey on school satisfaction every two years, the annual preparation of a work program for school development and an annual Pedagogical Day. Another instrument of quality development are the collegial teaching observations.
The steering group has the task of coordinating the overall development of the German Embassy School Addis Ababa. It is based on the school’s mission statement and school programme. The Steering Committee coordinates the work on updating the mission statement and the school program. The work of the steering group is guided by the quality framework of the Federal Government and the Länder for German schools abroad. The Steering Committee submits proposals and applications to the responsible bodies of the school.
The Steering Committee consists of representatives of all school councils and meets once every two months. The members are appointed for one year at a time. The representatives regularly report on the work of the Steering Committee to the respective committees (of which they are members).
The members of the new Steering Committee for the 2019/20 school year are
PQM coordinator: Heba Hashem
Secondary school: P. Hofmann, B. Theil
Elementary: Nadja Schanz
Kindergarten: N.N.
Preschool: N.N.
School management: Dr. Martin Nutz, Christoph Schantz
Board of Directors: N.N.
Parents: Dr. Boran Altincicek
Students: Natnael Selassie, Clare Jörke
The Steering Committee, in consultation with the school management and the school conference , presents a work programme with developmental priorities for school development, which is regularly updated and whose implementation is monitored by the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee takes up suggestions and proposals from the Pedagogical Day for School Development, which it carries out at least once a school year with the teaching staff, the members of the Parents’ Council, the members of the Student Council and the Board of Directors.
The current development priorities from the work programme for the 2019/20 school year are
An important instrument of school development is the coordinator for pedagogical quality management. The tasks of a PQM coordinator:
At the DBSAA, all teachers meet once a monthin so-called quality groups for school development. The teachers teams work on different topics related to the school’s development priorities. Classes are developed together, collegial teaching hospitations take place, which are evaluated and discussed.
Idioms and phrases by theidioms.com