TEACHERS LEARN, TOO!

In-service training of teachers can have many faces. Teachers can accompany their students or trainees to Baylab plastics, where they get the opportunity to experience their students in an entirely different learning environment. We also help make the transition between school and vocational training and/or studies more transparent. Furthermore, Baylab creates a forum for the exchange between teachers and vocational trainers. As a teacher, you also have the possibility to visit us with a teacher group. See for yourself how it feels to work in teams across different fields and for a common goal. Discover the opportunities that are opening up if you convey contents to students in a practical manner.

Here is some feedback from teachers:

There is much more potential in this than I had thought.

Here we have students who receive F’s in class but at the lab they are very active. It reveals qualities that I have no way of seeing in class. I did not expect that.

I have learned here that by giving the students a lot of freedom, you can generate a great deal of commitment. I will tell your teachers about all the things you have accomplished here. They don’t know you the way you have presented yourselves today. Now that I know what you can do (referring to the independent work of the students), be prepared – from now on believe you are capable of much more.

I realized today that at school, we don’t educate you the way we should. We throw things at you and ask you to do them. Here I realized that we can expect you to be much more independent.

Competence gives you wings. The students also learn that with increasing competence, they get recognition and confirmation. And the greatest thing is that they acquire this competence on their own.

Here we exactly do what the minister of culture of Lower Saxony expects us to do: interdisciplinary work, teamwork, giving the students responsibility, and much more. This is how teaching should be in the future.

After we learned about your concept a year ago, we implemented it at our school immediately, and it was a big success. In the morning, the students were already waiting at the door, and I had not even put my coat on a hanger when they were already at it, calling in team meetings. This type of behavior is very uncommon here.

The last time I set foot in a production facility was 20 years ago when I was a student myself. The day at Baylab plastics helped me to better prepare my students for the time after school.