- Get a helping hand for your own lessons for an entire school year
- Discover new teaching opportunities in a team
- Exchange thoughts on teaching, give and receive feedback
- Share experiences with the next generation of teachers
- Get new input from students of Teacher Education
The Lehr:werkstatt is the answer to two major demands in the field of school and teacher education: It allows the students to have more practical experience and to interact more closely with each individual pupil. The students support lessons in a variety of ways: They enable more differentiated teaching in large and heterogeneous classes, bring in new methods and materials from university research, take over lessons, and are contact persons for your pupils. Last but not least, working together closely in a tandem offers the opportunity for a personal exchange on didactic and educational questions as well as for mutual feedback.
Teachers from secondary schools (Gymnasium), vocational schools and comprehensive schools as well as from state-recognized private schools (with a secondary school branch) in Mannheim and the surrounding area can apply for the Lehr:werkstatt 2023/
Your Lehr:werkstatt year
September | The introductory workshop for all tandems takes place shortly after the start of the school year. First block internship phase at the start of the school year (1 week) The students are at school every day as full-time support and get to know the daily life in school intimately. With specific observation assignments, the students participate in classes and get a feeling for the class constellation, individual strengths, and the content that is taught. The students are already welcome to take over parts of lessons, teach in a team, or they could jump in at the deep end and directly teach a full lesson. |
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September to December | During this internship phase, students are regularly at their school for ten weeks, but not on a daily basis (4–5 hours/ The first competence workshop will also be offered during this period. |
January | Second block internship phase after the winter break (2 weeks) The second block phase is ideal for sitting in on other teachers’ classes and designing lessons or whole teaching units. In addition, this period is ideal for intensifying your team teaching and trying out new elements. |
February to June | Same as in the fall semester, another ten-week internship phase follows the intensive block phase in the spring semester. Since the students are already much more experienced by now, new tasks can be explored. Everything is imaginable, from the co-creation and correction of exams to the offering of an own after school club (AG). The second and third competence workshops will also be offered during this period. |
June | Now that there are only a few weeks left until the end of the school year, it is time for an exit interview, in the form of a longer feedback meeting. During this session, the year and the overall cooperation should be looked back at and potentially be connected to an assessment of suitability. |
Please note: All agreements in tandem should be flexible, individual, and suitable for both tandem partners. They can differ depending on the situation at the school, the timetable of the mentor as well as university-related and other obligations of the student. In particular, the exact periods for both 10-week internship phases can be freely agreed on by the tandem. The block internship phases should generally be completed within the specified periods.
The Lehr:werkstatt inspires!

The Lehr:werkstatt project is now offered at nine different locations in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The central coordination office for the Lehr:werkstatt-Netzwerk in Baden-Württemberg is in Tübingen.
The locations in Baden-Württemberg (Tübingen, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Mannheim and Stuttgart-Ludwigsburg) also cooperate with the four Bavarian locations (Augsburg, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Passau and Würzburg) and together they form the Lehr:werkstatt-Netzwerkverbund. The project is supported by Lehr:Werkstatt e.V.

The Lehr:werkstatt in Baden-Württemberg is conducted in cooperation with the Amanda and Erich NEUMAYER STIFTUNG and its partners.