Early Childhood Education 1st Berlin Educators' Day: 400 future professionals in exchange

**Joint press release of Freie Universität Berlin and Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin**.

Around 400 students and trainees, and thus future educational professionals, are expected at Freie Universität Berlin on Saturday, June 17, 2023, for the 1st Berlin Pädagog:innen Tag (Berlin Educators' Day) 2023. The focus of the meeting will be an exchange on inclusive all-day schools as a place of multiprofessional teaching and learning. The 1st Berlin Educators' Day 2023 is jointly organized by Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) and Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin (ASH Berlin).

Education Senator Katharina Günther-Wünsch is expected to welcome the participants.

"The goal of the meeting is to network all participating institutions - their representatives, their students (social pedagogy, childhood pedagogy, teaching profession) and trainees (state-certified educators) - as well as an exchange about a future-oriented, inclusive all-day school as a place of multi-professional teaching and learning," educational scientist and elementary school pedagogue at the FU Berlin, Prof. Dr. Marianne Schüpbach, and educationalist and social pedagogue at ASH Berlin, Prof. Dr. Michael Brodowski emphasize.

"At the approximately 400 inclusive elementary schools in Berlin today, all of which are designed as all-day schools, there are educators with different professional backgrounds. They are expected to work together to shape the day at the all-day school for a heterogeneous student body. This requires a changed professional image and a multiprofessional culture of cooperation," Marianne Schüpbach and Michael Brodowski explain further.

According to the two researchers, Berlin needs the space, infrastructure, and human resources that make it possible for educators to cooperate in the classroom and in all-day schooling. However, this alone does not guarantee a good inclusive all-day school with multiprofessional cooperation. In the future, cooperation must be developed by all participants in order to achieve the quality that makes inclusive education possible for all. "Therefore, in the future, the anchoring of the inclusive all-day school in the training and study programs of future educators must be addressed more strongly. All educators working at inclusive all-day schools must be prepared for their work. This includes cooperating with each other on an equal footing - even with staff who do not have a pedagogical background," Marianne Schüpbach and Michael Brodowski continued. To date, this cooperation has not been sufficiently integrated into the module plans and curricula of universities, universities of applied sciences and technical colleges. In the future, however, future educators (teachers, educators and childhood educators) will need common formats already during their studies or training.

"The 1st Berlin Pedagog:in Day 2023 represents such a format," explained Marianne Schüpbach and Michael Brodowski, and further emphasized: "We very much hope that more Berlin Pedagog:in Days will take place in the future."

The program of the first Berlin Pädagog:innen Day includes lectures followed by discussions and numerous workshops on working in multiprofessional teams, on learning workshops in the classroom, on sustainable learning in cooperations, on social competencies of children in preschool and elementary school, and on quality standards for inclusive Berlin all-day schools.

For more information on the event, visit https://www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/v/paedagoginnen_tag/Informationen/index.html

Contact

Prof. Dr. Marianne Schüpbach
Freie Universität Berlin | Department of Educational Science and Psychology, General Elementary School Education
Tel.: 030/838 66604
marianne.schuepbach@ avoid-unrequested-mailsfu-berlin.de

Prof. Dr. Michael Brodowski
Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin | Department of Health and Early Childhood Education
Tel.: 030/999245-209
brodowski@ avoid-unrequested-mailsash-berlin.eu