Departments and Committees

Exectutive Board

Extended Executive Board

The Department of Early Education develops concepts for courses for early childhood educator PD and facilitator PD to promote early mathematical education in day-care centres and supports this development process through accompanying research. Thus the DZLM expands its offers for early education and reacts to the requirements of the education and orientation plans in early education.
The starting point was the advanced PD programme "EmMa - Erzieherinnen und Erzieher machen Mathematik" (EmMa - educators make mathematics), which was carried out in 2014/15 and empirically tested for its effectiveness.
In 2018, PD facilitators were prepared to carry out the training concept "EmMa - Erzieherinnen und Erzieher machen Mathematik" independently. In this way, the training needs of early childhood educators are to be continuously met.
In a recently started cooperation with the project "LuPE - Lehr- und Praxismaterial für die Erzieherinnenausbildung" (LuPE - Teaching and Practical Material for the Vocational Training of Educators), from September 2019 onwards teachers of the technical schools for educators in NRW will be enabled to integrate mathematics didactic basics into the training of early education professionals.

Working groups

The Department of Primary Education works on research and development of PD programmes for primary schools. The department is headed by Katja Eilerts, Petra Scherer and Christoph Selter. Its working groups work together at three of the DZLM's eight university locations and beyond. In particular, the department develops and researches the following offers for PD trainers at primary level: PD concepts, courses and self-learning platforms.

Guiding questions

• How should teacher PD and facilitator PD measures on the topic of "Digitisation in Primary School Mathematics" and "Mathematical Modelling in Primary School Mathematics" be designed and what are the requirements for PD facilitators?
• How should teacher PD and facilitator PD measures for dealing with heterogeneity or for inclusive settings be designed and what are the requirements for PD facilitators?
• Which areas of knowledge activate PD facilitators when planning PD events?

Working groups

WG Eilerts

Head

Prof. Dr. Katja Eilerts

HU Berlin

 

Deputy head

Prof. Dr. Tobias Huhmann

PH Weingarten

 

Co-workers

Sebastian Vogel
Dr. Ana Donevska-Todorova
Steven Beyer M.Ed.
Dr. Kerstin Arndt
Clara Nehrkorn
Denise van der Velden
HU Berlin

 

Further scientists

Prof. Dr. Bernd Wollring
Universität Kassel
Prof. Dr. Carsten Schulte
Universität Paderborn
Prof. Dr. Regina Möller
HU Berlin
Birte Heinemann
RWTH Aachen

 

 

WG Scherer

Head

Prof. Dr. Petra Scherer

Universität Duisburg-Essen

 

Deputy head

Prof. Dr. Marcus Nührenbörger

TU Dortmund

 

Co-workers

Leonie Ratte
Sabine Schorein
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Martina Geisen (extern)
Esther Wensing (extern)

 

Further scientists

Prof. Dr. Uta Häsel-Weide
Universität Paderborn
Prof. Dr. Natascha Korff
Universität Bremen

 

 

WG Selter

Head

Prof. Dr. Christoph Selter

TU Dortmund

 

Deputy head

Prof. Dr. Bernd Wollring

Universität Kassel

 

Co-workers

Lara Hüthorst

Nadine Wilhelm

Elena Zannetin

TU Dortmund

 

Further scientists

Dr. Axel Schulz
Universität Bielefeld

 

 

The Secondary Education Department works on research and development of PD programmes for secondary schools. The department is headed by Rolf Biehler, Lars Holzäpfel and Katrin Rolka. Their working groups work together at three of the DZLM's eight university locations and beyond. In particular, the department develops and researches the following offers for PD trainers in secondary education: PD concepts, courses and self-learning platforms.

Working groups

WG Biehler

Head

Prof. Dr. Rolf Biehler

Universität Paderborn

 

Deputy head

Prof. Dr. Anselm Lambert

Universität des Saarlandes

 

Co-workers

Steffen Lünne

Ralf Nieszporek

Dr. Birgit Griese

Dr. Hauke Friedrich

Universität Paderborn

 

Further scientists

Prof. Dr. Andreas Eichler

Universität Kassel

Prof. Dr. Jürg Kramer

HU Berlin

Prof. Dr. Katja Krüger

Universität Paderborn

(ab Okt. 2019 TU Darmstadt)

Prof. Dr. Bärbel Barzel

Universität Duisburg-Essen

Bettina Rösken-Winter

HU Berlin

 

WG Holzäpfel

Head

Prof. Dr. Lars Holzäpfel

PH Freiburg

 

Deputy head

Prof. Dr. Timo Leuders

PH Freiburg

 

Co-workers

Dr. Thomas Bardy

Ralf Erens

Frank Föckler

PH Freiburg

 

Further scientists

Prof. Dr. Regina Bruder

TU Darmstadt

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Roth

Universität Koblenz-Landau

Prof. Dr. Gerald Wittmann

PH Freiburg

 

WG Rolka

Head

Prof. Dr. Katrin Rolka

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

 

Deputy head

Prof. Dr. Stephan Hußmann

TU Dortmund

 

Co-workers

Natascha Albersmann
Jennifer Bertram
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

 

Further scientists

Prof. Dr. Angelika Bikner-Ahsbahs

Universität Bremen

Prof. Dr. Florian Schacht

Universität Duisburg-Essen

 

The Development Programme Department acts as a comprehensive programme department and coordinates the development and dissemination of courses for teacher PD and facilitator PD and PD materials - in close consultation with the other programme departments.
It develops standards and design principles for the offerings of the school level departments, which are research-based and tried and tested in practice. In addition, the head of department is the initiator and first point of contact for cooperation partners from ministries, district governments and state institutes and maintains further national and international contacts to networks such as the European STEM Professional Development Centres Network.

Guiding questions

• How must training courses and materials be designed so that PD facilitators can be supported in the best possible way?
• Which research questions have to be asked and answered?
• What can colleagues from home and abroad learn in this area?

Team

Head

Prof. Dr. Bärbel Barzel

Universität Duisburg-Essen

 

Prof. Dr. Susanne Prediger

TU Dortmund

 

Deputy head

Prof. Dr. Katja Maas

PH Freiburg

Former employees

Marc Bosse
Günter Törner

The Department of Digitisation coordinates and initiates the topic of digitisation at the DZLM and deals with the use of digital tools in PD courses and teaching. In addition, the department provides technical support for the DZLM's online resources and develops them further for information and professional development courses. This includes the information pages on the DZLM's activities and goals, the training and materials platform, the self-learning platforms and the Moodle learning platform, which enables a blended learning approach for PD courses. The encyclopaedic mathematics didactics Wiki Madipedia of the Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM) is also supervised and expanded by members of the department.

Guiding questions

• What online resources does a nationwide centre like the DZLM need in order to network optimally both internally and externally and to spread the range of its services?
• How can Open Educational Resources (OER) be used specifically for the further development of PD materials?
• How can digital media support teaching and learning processes in mathematics instructions and PD courses?

Team

Head

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kortenkamp

Universität Potsdam

 

Deputy head

Christian Dohrmann

Universität Potsdam

 

Co-workers

Dr. Lena Florian
Peter Mahns
Mathias Sotta
Universität Potsdam

 

Former employees

Silke Fleckenstein
Mareike Knoke

 

The Research Programme Department coordinates and advises DZLM research projects aimed at professionalising teachers and PD facilitators and promotes young scientists within the framework of a graduate programme.

In addition to the systematic support of research in the specialist departments, we are investigating in the DFG-funded NoTe project and the subsequent Note-Act and NoTe-S projects how the noticing of PD facilitors can be promoted through the use of video vignettes from PD courses and what needs to be taken into account when designing such facilitator PD modules.

_{* Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the Länder - Das Forschungszentrum der Berliner Mathematik MATH+ (EXC-2046/1, Project Number: 390685689).}

Guiding questions

• What are the comprehensive research questions at the DZLM and how can they be answered?
• How can the research results of the DZLM be presented and made accessible to the scientific community?
• How can young scientists at the DZLM be supported and encouraged in the best possible way?
• How can the noticing of PD facilitators be supported by video vignettes?

Team

Head

Prof. Dr. Bettina Rösken-Winter

HU Berlin

Co-workers

Dr. Christin Laschke
Christoph Look
Rebekka Stahnke
HU Berlin