The 15th IZeF workshop focused on the topic "Competence Measurement and Examination of the Effectiveness of Teacher Education in the Field of Action Quality Assurance of the Future Strategy Teacher Education (ZuS)". After a welcome and an introduction to the field of competence measurement by Prof. Dr. Johannes König, four presentations from different research projects on the topic were given and current research questions were discussed:

• Digitization-related competence development of teachers during school closures in 2020 and 2021 - testing and self-assessments of teachers in comparison (Dr. Daniela Jäger-Biela and Prof. Dr. Johannes König).
• Inclusive pedagogical knowledge and inclusive beliefs of future elementary school teachers - first results of a pilot study (Christian Elting, Prof. Dr. Sonja Ertl, Dr. Saskia Liebner)
• Lesson planning competence of ( aspiring ) secondary school German teachers (Prof. Dr. Johannes König, Franca Cammann, Prof. Dr. Albert Bremerich-Vos, Dr. Christiane Buchholtz)
• Technological pedagogical knowledge (TPK) of prospective teachers during the pandemic: analyses of learning opportunities and TPK (Kristina Gerhard, Dr. Daniela Jäger-Biela, Prof. Dr. Johannes König)

This was followed by a discussion of the presentations with the discussant Prof. Dr. Cornelia Gräsel (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).

Information about the program can be found here (in German language).

The 14th IZeF-Workshop took place in May 2021 in a digital format.  After a welcome by Prof. Dr. Johannes König, the Topic of the newly founded IZeF-research-group:  “Persistence and change in School, Teaching and teaching-profession” was briefly introduced by Prof. Dr. Matthias Martens (Speaker of "Persistence and change"). The main Part of the Workshop was filled with Presentation, focusing on different aspects of the Topic:

• - Persistence and change of interaction practices, processes, and structures in tablet-supported classes (Prof. Dr. Matthias Proske, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Herrle, Dr. Markus Hoffmann & Juliane Spiegler)
• - Norm and practice of multiprofessional cooperation. Persistences and Change from the Perspective of the Sociology of Knowledge. (Prof. Dr. Matthias Martens & Michael Ehlscheid)
• - Oral Examinations in the Context of Research-Based Learning. Programmatic expectations and normative orders in a subjectivation-theoretical perspective. (Prof. Dr. Petra Herzmann)

The Workshop ended with an open discussion with Prof. Dr. Till-Sebastian Idel and Prof. Dr. Michael Schemmann. We would like thank all 50 participant for attending our Workshop and all speakers for their presentations.

The detailed program can be found here (in German language).

In November 2020, the 13th IZeF workshop on the topic of the newly founded IZeF research group "Mental Health in Educational Institutions" took place - meanwhile the second IZeF workshop held digitally. We would like to thank more than 30 participants and speakers. After the welcome by Prof. Dr. Johannes König and an introduction by Prof. Dr. Charlotte Hanisch (speaker of the IZeF research group) and Prof. Dr. Thomas Hennemann, four projects were presented and discussed: Mental Health from a Preschool Perspective: MUTIG (Prof. Dr. Charlotte Hanisch), Mental Health from a School Perspective: PEARL (Dr. Tatjana Leidig), Mental Health from a Clinical Perspective: ADOPT (Anne Ritschel) and Mental Health from a University Perspective (Dr. Rainer Weber).

The program can be found here (in German language).

For the very first time, an IZeF workshop was held in digital form (via zoom), whereby not only the planning but also the procedure was adapted to this format. Round about 40 persons participated.

During the workshop, a total of four projects from different research projects on the topic of "Media and Digitalization" were presented in two lecture blocks and current research questions were discussed together. After an introduction to the Working Group "Media and Digitalization" by Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Kaspar, the first part of the workshop dealt with the topics "Students - Media - University" (Jun.-Prof.in Dr.in Sandra Hofhues (University of Cologne)) and "Hybrid Problem-Based Learning in Educational Sciences" (Dr.in Silke Marchand (University of Cologne)). The second block included the lectures "The Virtual School Board (VSB) as a Tool for Multi-Professional Development Plan Work" (Prof. Dr. Dennis Christian Hövel, Dr.in Silvia Fränkel & Prof. Dr. Thomas Hennemann (University of Cologne)) and "Computer Games in Sports Education? Longitudinal effects of a commercial computer game on learning, fun and motivation to learn" (Marco Rüth & Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Kaspar (University of Cologne)).

The program can be found here (in German language).

In the context of this workshop, four presentations were given in the field of "Language Education". Prof. Dr. Keller of the University of Education FHNW first gave an introduction to the perspectives for empirical research. Afterwards, three projects located at the IZeF and currently running were presented: One by Prof. Dr. Bremerich-Vos of the University of Duisburg-Essen and two by professors of the Faculty of Human Sciences of the University of Cologne (Prof. Dr. Roth & Prof. Dr. König):

• Language education - perspectives for empirical research in subject didactics and teacher training
  (Prof. Dr. Stefan D. Keller, University of Education FHNW, University of Basel)
• Project COLD - Competencies of school teachers and adult educators in teaching German as a second language in linguistically diverse classrooms
  (Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Roth, University of Cologne, Faculty of Human Sciences)
• Project ST:ST - Test theoretical foundation and piloting of the Studiport knowledge test for language and text comprehension
  (Prof. Dr. Albert Bremerich-Vos, University of Duisburg-Essen)
• Planning competence of teachers in the field of language education
  (Prof. Dr. Johannes König, University of Cologne, Faculty of Human Sciences)

The focus was on the research cooperation between the IZeF and the Institute for Educational Research of the University of Wuppertal (Chapter 4.2). Within the framework of this cooperation, common research projects have been applied for and carried out since 2016 with the focus on "Adaptivity in schools and teaching". In the workshop four new project ideas were presented, which were in different phases of the application process: In addition to a planned graduate college (Prof.in Dr.in Cornelia Gräsel, Prof. Dr. Johannes Naumann), the projects TabU - Tablets in the classroom (Jun.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Herrle), What role does cognitive system use play for the diagnostic competence of teachers? (Dr. Gino Casale) as well as Competencies of teachers in adaptive teaching (Prof. Dr. Johannes König) were presented and discussed.

Within the framework of four project presentations, the focus of the workshop was examined and discussed from different perspectives. As well as an external guest from the University of Hamburg (Prof.in Dr. Gabriele Kaiser) there were two contributions from the Faculty of Arts (Prof.in Dr. Heike Lindner, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Pohl) and one from the Faculty of Human Sciences (Nina Glutsch).

• Quality of teaching from a mathematics teaching perspective and its interconnection with teacher competences
  (Prof.'in Dr. Gabriele Kaiser, University of Hamburg)
• Professional knowledge of teachers, quality of teaching and learning progress of pupils in basic reading and writing (WibaLeS)
  (Prof. Dr. Thorsten Pohl, University of Cologne, Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
• The potential of Trinitarian thought movements for education. A project to resolve the lack of complexity in teaching in religious education
  (Prof.'in Dr. Heike Lindner, University of Cologne, Faculty of Arts and Humanities)
• Motivation characteristics of prospective teachers from a domain-specific perspective
  (Nina Glutsch, University of Cologne, Faculty of Human Sciences)

In this workshop, the focus was, for the first time, on projects and initiatives dealing with inclusion at the University of Cologne other than those offered by the IZeF. The working group on inclusion research, the SINTER competence field, the PARTI project and the Swiss KoKoLek project were presented. In addition to providing information about the activities, the main focus was on stimulating exchange, creating synergies and establishing and strengthening cooperation. All presented projects and initiatives offer different possibilities with respect to participation. Please do not hesitate to contact us.

The aim of the workshop was to present the new and fourth working group on Media and Digitalization, which had previously been decided on by the Board of Directors. With this working group, the IZeF also aims to deal with a very current challenge in empirical research on teaching. A holistic and interdisciplinary perspective against the background of a broad concept of media is, in particular for this working group, a declared goal, which is why cooperation between different departments and disciplines is envisaged.

The workshop served to present and discuss the newly established research cooperation with the Institute for Research in Education (IfB) of the University of Wuppertal, which is linked to the IZeF, and to gauge possibilities for participation. In the immediate run-up to this, a collaborative meeting of the IZeF and the IfB took place in October 2016, in which many scholars active in the IZeF also participated. Thematically, the research cooperation with the working title "Adaptivity at Schools and in the Classroom as a Response to the Increasing Heterogeneity of Pupils" ties in with the priorities of the three IZeF working groups, so that strategic planning for participation in cooperative DFG proposals could be further developed.

In this workshop, the three working groups (1) Competence measurement and effectiveness research in teacher education, (2) Language education and (3) Inclusion and social participation were refined as new focal points and adopted as titles by three corresponding working groups.

The focus of the workshop in October 2015 was on the development of possibilities for scholars active in the IZeF to participate in the Cologne project "Future strategies in teacher education" (ZuS), funded within the framework of the "Quality offensive for teacher training” in particular by participating in individual quality assurance measures. Evolving from this, the project group of the ZuS sub-project "Quality Assurance" was further developed. Since then, it has met regularly and, for example, has jointly developed and compiled survey instruments for the annual education monitoring that takes place as part of ZuS or has cooperatively carried out evaluation studies to ensure the effectiveness of innovative ZuS teaching measures.

The aim of this workshop was to amalgamate the various research approaches and projects in the context of IZeF into a meaningful cluster structure with regard to content in order to form actionable working groups. In the run-up to the workshop, three first working groups were formed, which had the opportunity to report on the current status of their projects or plans, to define interfaces and, thus, to advance the exchange within the IZeF.

Following on from the exchange with respect to content in the first IZeF workshop, the second workshop focused on the field of "Teacher competencies from the perspective of the various disciplines". The following questions/aspects guided the discussion:

• Qualities, forms and types of teacher knowledge
• Questions of terminology
• Relation between knowledge, ability, performance
• necessary teaching/learning processes for the acquisition of competences in teacher training and in further teacher education

So far, four different thematic fields have been formulated as the first objective with respect to the content of the IZeF's work.

• Research on Teacher Competencies
• Research on the effectiveness of teacher training
• transfer research
• Research on institutionalized teaching-learning processes

In the workshop, these thematic errors were once again presented for discussion with respect to presented current research projects and/or planned research ideas of the participants and updated with a view to initiating possible cooperation.