School development & innovation
The formatio private school stands for innovation. Awarded the Erasmus+ European Teaching Award in 2024. In 2021, the school was awarded a recognition prize for the State Prize for Innovative Schools, and in 2019 it received the European Language Label.
School development project
formatio – plurilingual – digital
The school development project formatio – plurilingual – digital is developing a model for contemporary education in a world characterized by VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) along the core areas of plurilingualism and digitalization. Based on the “Lingua” school profile, a PlurCur® overall language curriculum was initially implemented. In addition to the promotion of foreign languages at school, family languages and languages of origin also play an important role. Language-sensitive and bilingual teaching (CLIL) are just as important as cross-curricular support for plurilingual skills, meta-linguistic competencies and thus metacognition.
The school development project experiments with sustainable changes to the organization of lessons, including the use of digital media, in order to provide learners with central and profound skills for life in the VUCA world. Self-organized and project-based learning as well as networked and interdisciplinary lessons are consistently implemented. There are no timetabled lessons on campus: Learners decide for themselves when they learn with whom and where. This also means that learning locations outside of the school are explored.
Another focus is on personal development, which – following the principles of positive psychology and potential-focused pedagogy – focuses on exploring personal strengths, talents and potential. Individual mentoring and potential-oriented support for learners are therefore also at the heart of educational activities.
Practical volume on the school development project “formatio-plurilingual-digital”
The school development project formatio – plurilingual – digital is being implemented as a cooperation project with the Technical University of Darmstadt and is being scientifically supported by Prof. Dr. Britta Hufeisen. The project was awarded the European Language Label by the European Union in 2019.
formatio – plurilingual – digital encompasses all levels of the school: agile team structures were introduced as a central element of organizational development, enabling dynamic, flexible, skills-based and collaborative work. Closely related to this are the numerous personnel development measures, which range from coordinated further training measures and potential-oriented employee appraisals to individual development and career opportunities. Changes to teaching can be developed, implemented, evaluated and continuously adapted on the basis of these structures.
The school development project formatio – plurilingual – digital is continuously evaluated internally and improved on the basis of this data. The report of the external, scientific accompanying study has been available since 2022.
Coordinated further training
for teachers
Compulsory and coordinated further training for teachers enables continuous staff development and ensures the ongoing development of teaching and the quality of teaching. Some of the further training courses are organized at the school, while others are selected by the teachers from an international range of further training courses according to predefined priorities. For example with Erasmus+.
Input from
experts
The following renowned experts have already been welcomed as part of “formatio – plurilingual – digital”:
Prof. Dr. Britta Hufeisen
“Introduction to the overall language curriculum”, “Consolidation of the overall language curriculum”, “Language in the natural sciences”
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Krumm
“Multilingual curriculum”
Dr. Werner Nagel
“Latin in the mirror of Romance languages”
Dr. Elisabeth Langer
“Language-sensitive teaching”
Dr. Birgit Kordt
“Plurilingual teaching: learning languages with EuroCom”
Dr. Georg Marschnig
“Values and words”
Kerstin Mayr-Keiler MA
“Concepts and language” and “Bilingual teaching and CLIL”
Mag. Joachim Schlabach
“Multilingualism at work – results from research” and “Plurilingual skills and their description”
Eva Kühne and Angelika Kessler MA
“Multilingualism in practice”
Dr. Robert Hilbe and Simon Risch
“Self-organized learning”
Scientifically researched model school
The accompanying research scientifically investigates the development of the formatio private school and identifies objective success factors. Joachim Schlabach is working on a research project on the topic of “Multilingual skills for a plurilingual curriculum” under the academic supervision of Prof. Dr. Britta Hufeisen.
Quality assurance
In addition to academic monitoring, the upper secondary school, as an Austrian school abroad, is integrated into the QMS quality assurance system , which is mandatory at Austrian schools, to ensure and further develop the quality of teaching. The annual report, which documents the development of the upper secondary school in detail, is reviewed directly by the Ministry of Education in Vienna.
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