TaC-Teaching Projects

With TaC-Teaching Projects, we promote the development of new curricular teaching formats in the teacher training programmes at the University of Würzburg, which impart specialist, methodological and tool knowledge on the following topics:

• Social entrepreneurship in various forms
• key entrepreneurial skills
• Project and problem-based learning with an application focus
• Creativity techniques and idea development

Conceivable are e.g:

• Complete courses (weekly or as a block) or individual learning units/sessions that are integrated into existing courses as a supplement
• Digital learning units or face-to-face formats
• Subject-specific or interdisciplinary formats
• Formats with the involvement of social entrepreneurs
• Formats with an event character (e.g. hackathons, lecture series, summer/winter schools)

The only prerequisite is that the event is anchored in the curriculum, i.e. is completed as part of a compulsory or compulsory elective module within a degree programme and enables the acquisition of ECTS points.

What are the aims of TaC Teaching Projects?

With TaC Teaching Projects we want to achieve that

• student teachers and lecturers in the teaching profession acquire social entrepreneurial skills for the future
• student teachers to be proactive and self-effective by developing and implementing ideas to solve social challenges
• student teachers are sensitised to different career paths in the field of entrepreneurship and social commitment and convey these professional qualification paths to their students (e.g. founding their own (social) enterprises, intrapreneurship, taking over existing social enterprises in the sense of succession)

Jonathan Grothaus & Prof Dr Thomas Trefzger
Chair of Physics and its Didactics

Labs4Future (L4F) is a two-day, interdisciplinary teaching-learning lab on the climate crisis, supervised by student teachers. In L4F, the prospective teachers practise a form of climate education that is explicitly geared towards climate action. Since 2022, over 1100 pupils (from year 9) have been involved in experiments at the M!ND Centre on the elementary phenomena of climate change, their own role in causing it and the options for action to change high-emission social structures. In a seminar in the free interdisciplinary area, the L4F experiments are the observation field and starting point for dealing with the didactic consequences of climate education motivated by environmental psychology. On the basis of reflected practical experience, the student teachers professionalise themselves in particular with regard to the implementation of methodological-didactic concepts of climate education. Problem awareness, creative approaches to solutions, topic-specific communication skills and the ability to work in a team are at the centre of this and form the basis for socially entrepreneurial thinking and action - for students and pupils alike.