The cooperation project "Students to the Schools" has been implemented by several schools in the Eichstätt-Ingolstadt region together with the KU since 2015. Within the project as part of a practical seminar, KU students support cooperating schools in the region several times a week in differentiated German lessons each semester.

The focus is on promoting the language skills in German of children with migration and refugee background. In the context of a university practical seminar the students are prepared for the school assignment and are also accompanied during the project phase. The students receive organisational and technical support from the Center for Flight and Migration in cooperation with the DaF/DiDaZ professorship. In this way, the participating students receive additional background knowledge, for example on didactic and methodological approaches to language teaching and tips on suitable teaching materials.

Furthermore, the practical phase is characterised by regular group meetings in which the students exchange their experiences with each other as well as with the supervising lecturers and thereby reflect on their own practice. In addition to the university supervision, the supervising teachers of the project schools are also available to the students at any time for questions and practical help.

For monitoring and further development of the project, a multi-stage evaluation was carried out in the past semesters, the results of which will also be included in a publication at the end of 2020. More information will be available on the ZFM homepage after publication.

Under the title “School Practice: Language Support with DaZ Learners” the practical seminar will again take place in the winter term 20/21. In the coming semester, the seminar will also be offered for the first time in the Studium.Pro area and will thus be accessible to all KU students.