Open classroom day: insights into the support offers in Landau!

Open classroom day: insights into the support offers in Landau!

This Friday, March 14, 2025, the now traditional “Day of the Open Classroom” took place at the Caritas support center of St. Laurentius and Paulus in Landau-Queichheim. This event, which is carried out every year on the first Saturday of Lent, is aimed at interested parents and employees from kindergartens, schools and therapeutic practices.

This year more than 70 visitors could be counted, including 41 adults and 12 children. In particular, there were employees of daycare centers and parents on site who thought about a possible school admission. Therapists and teachers were also interested in the support school concept of the facility.

insight into the educational offers

A highlight of the event was a physics lesson that was prepared by teacher Kathrin Jung. The hour that dealt with the subject of acoustics used knitting needles for demonstration. At the same time, students in the final class actively took part in the juice sale, while guests were able to receive insights into different teaching units.

The headmistress Monika Hirschfeld praised the positive response of the visitors regarding the variety of funding approaches. She pointed out that around 160 children are taught at the school, which mainly come from the Landau, Neustadt region, the districts of southern Weinstraße and Germersheim as well as some places in the Southwest Palatinate. The courses include primary and secondary school with funding priority and holistic development as well as a work stage for vocational school obligation.

This year Corina Burger also took part with her daughter Jana, who is considered for a school admission in the special school. The event also offered school tours and insights into climbing and sports offers as well as therapy offers, everything is entertaining from the workshop in a café and kiosk.

the importance of inclusion

The "Day of the Open Classroom" is also in the context of school inclusion in Germany, a topic that has been continuously examined since the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabilities came into force in 2009. Despite positive developments, there are still many challenges. Studies show that the implementation of school inclusion is often slow, with considerable differences between the federal states.

In an investigation by the Bavarian Teacher Association, 97 percent of the teachers surveyed stated that the inclusion under the current framework conditions were not feasible. Teachers often feel left alone because there is a lack of personnel, temporal resources and further training courses. The challenges with which schools are confronted affect not only inclusion, but also the general support of students with special needs.

The high number of visitors and the positive mood in the "Day of the Open Classroom" are, however, encouraging signals. It turns out that the exchange between the pedagogical and therapeutic specialists is constantly optimized on site, which benefits the entire school community. This type of events offers an important forum for networking and exchange in the field of education, which also from Bistum-speyer.de and xn--frderschule-landau-d3b.de . The continuous development and focus on inclusion in schools remains a central challenge, as well as Deutsches-schulportal.de Show.