Quality matrix digitalization: 1.1. Digital school development
1.1.7. Pedagogical Guiding Principles
Level A
In their Pedagogical Guidelines the school defines its common pedagogical approaches and describes how learning and teaching processes at the school should be structured in principle. They therefore contain an ideal target image for school development, which partly describes the current status and partly also describes standards that have yet to be achieved. However, they do not yet contain any concrete measures for achieving this target image. The school management and the teachers know the meaning of the pedagogical principles in the sense of a goal-oriented commitment to the quality development of the school. In addition, the need to also reflect the appropriate elements of digital school development is seen in them.
Level B
The pedagogical principles are created and regularly revised in a participatory process involving teachers. Digital school development is also taken into account. It will describe how the school management and teachers envisage digitally supported teaching at the school. On the one hand, the existing practice at the school for quality assurance will be examined, but on the other hand, standards that still need to be achieved in terms of quality development will also be defined.
Level C
The appropriate elements of the digitalization concept (vision, mission statement, ...) are included or incorporated in the Pedagogical Guiding Principles. The annual revision of the pedagogical principles also takes into account the needs of digital school development. The pedagogical principles are used as a target image for defining goals and planning measures in digital school development (e.g. in the context of drawing up the school development plan - see 1.1.8). If the planned goals and measures do not fit, this can be a reason to discard them or to check whether the pedagogical principles are up to date.
Level D / Extensiom