Ganz In – All Day-Schools for a Brighter Future. The New All-Day Secondary School in NRW
“Ganz In – All Day-Schools for a Brighter Future. The New All-Day Secondary School in NRW” is a joint project initiated by Stiftung Mercator, Institut für Schulentwicklungsforschung Dortmund – representing the three universities in the Ruhr region – and the Ministerium für Schule und Weiterbildung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. Thirty-one selected North Rhine-Westphalian secondary schools (Gymnasium) participate in this project. Ganz In aims to optimize the organizational structure of all-day secondary schools in a lasting manner and, through lesson development, to establish a special culture of individual tuition.
Structure and Organization
During the course of the project, education experts and school development advisers will support as many as 30 secondary schools in North Rhine-Westphalia as they restructure their organizations to become all-day schools and establish a culture of individual tuition. The keystone of this restructuring process is lesson development. The project comprises several phases: first, an individual all-day concept for each school will be drawn up in cooperation with the schools themselves, outlying the necessary framework conditions in terms of organization and contents. On the basis of newly developed modules, the schools will then begin reorganizing their institutions and adapting lesson content. Particular attention will be paid to the teaching of German as a second language and to language understanding. To ensure that innovative and quick solutions are found to similar problems, a network structure will allow all participating schools to share their ideas and experiences.
Objectives
The project’s objective is to better tap into the academic potential that students already have by giving them individual tuition and to improve the overall quality of school qualifications. The lesson and organization modules that this requires will be designed by the project partners for the first time in Germany, introduced in the pilot schools and later made available to other secondary schools.
