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Documentation εducaTUM
Students in TUMlab in Deutsches Museum
The primary aim of εducaTUM is to win the most talented undergraduates to study at TUM. This collaborative initiative focuses on 30 of Bavaria’s particularly successful, performance-driven high schools with the aim of smoothing the transition from school to university. Some of these schools are part of the TUM school cluster, a new form of cross-school collaboration supported by TUM. It involves multiple schools in an area joining forces to host joint scientific events.
The εducaTUM program includes concrete measures to improve the quality of teaching and education. The new TUM Comenius grants give selected high-school teachers access to the benefits of this program . Students on TUM teacher-training courses are thus allocated to one of these focus high schools or school clusters when they start their studies so they can gain an insight into the challenges of their future teaching career at an early stage.
An integrated school/university concept is currently being developed to improve MINT training and increase academic performance. This concept will include workstreams such as the “TUM Otto von Taube-Kolleg”, a joint high-school program for gifted pupils of the Gauting high school near Munich and the Schülerforschungszentrum Berchtesgadener Land, which provides extracurricular, research-based learning opportunities focused on natural sciences and technology.
The TUMlab at the Deutsches Museum, the TUM ScienceLabs and the TUM Hall of Science and Technology are further examples of how TUM “reverse integrates” with the school system to attract talented young individuals and capture the public interest (Deutsches Museum).
The decision to found the TUM School of Education faculty in 2009 also secured the educational research commitment required to drive progress in this area.
Contact:
Dr. Andreas Kratzer
kratzer@ph.tum.de
Tel.: +49.89.289.12596
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