MINT-ProNeD

Professional networks for fostering adaptive, process-oriented, technology-enhanced innovations in STEM teacher education

01/04/2023 to 30/09/2025

Educational achievement - especially in STEM subjects - strongly depends on students’ individual learning prerequisites. Adaptive teaching, which explicitly takes individual prerequisites into account provides distinct learning opportunities, and is regarded as a promising instructional strategy for dealing with heterogeneity among students. Digital technologies support teachers in effectively designing adaptive teaching by providing them with innovative strategies for assessments and adaptation. To implement technology-enhanced adaptive teaching, however, these teachers must be qualified and well-trained. Despite various flagship projects in the field of digital education, previous initiatives in teacher education can be characterized by low coverage, sub-optimal collaboration across the different phases of teacher education, and low subject-specificity. Therefore, the aim of the current consortium project is to establish and implement an integrative overall strategy for STEM teacher education by initiating three interdisciplinary professional networks (in-service training, instructional development and consulting, Future Innovation Hub) and a transversal working area Translation and Dissemination. The basis of the project is the systematic collaboration of six teacher training sites in Southern Germany (all Schools of Education in Baden-Württemberg, TU Kaiserslautern) to enable an excellent and systematic coverage of the different STEM didactics along the different school types and subjects. The research basis and quality of the resulting concepts is guaranteed by involving relevant stake-holders (IWM, DIE, DIPF, LMU) and the participating educational administration within the different federal states. The University of Tübingen is partner in all working areas and coordinates the consortium (project governance and communication) and is responsible for the cross-location research agenda as well as quality assurance.