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Institution:
Bertelsmann Foundation
Gütersloh
Ministry for City Planning and Building, Culture and Sport
of the Land Nordrhein-Westfalen
Düsseldorf
Addresses:
Bertelsmann Foundation
(Bertelsmann Stiftung)
Carl-Bertelsmann-Str. 256
D-33311 Gütersloh
Ministry for City
Planning and Building, Culture and Sport
of the Land Nordrhein-Westfalen
(Ministerium für Städtebau und Wohnen, Kultur und Sport des
Landes NRW)
Referat VI.1
Fürstenwall 25
40219 Düsseldorf
Contact persons:
Christian Hasiewicz
Tel.:
5241-81-81366
Ines Galla
Tel.: 05241 / 8181276
Wolfgang
Wähnke
(Project team)
Tel.:
5241-81-81155
Bertelsmann
Stiftung
Carl-Bertelsmann-Str. 256
D-33311 Gütersloh
Beate Möllers
Ministry for City Planning and Building, Culture and Sport of the Land
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Referat VI.1 Fürstenwall
25
40219 Düsseldorf
Tel.: 0211 / 3843-580
Fax: 0211 / 3843-73580
Board (Vorstand)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.
c. mult. Heribert
Meffert (Head)
Dr. Johannes Meier
Dr. Brigitte Mohn
Liz Mohn
Reinhard Mohn
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Werner Weidenfeld
Konstanze Schupp
(Rheinland Media Centre)
Tel.: 0211 /
89-21476
Fax: 0211 / 89-29800
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Heike Daume,
The spiral curriculum: a master plan for the development of
reading (p. 109-131)
The spiral curriculum was set up within the project
“Public library and School – new forms of the partnership” closed in 2000.
It is
like a system of constructions, and the
building stones are offers of education plans.
It is mainly useful for strengthening the co-operation
between libraries and schools.
Stimuli
The idea arose during a
continuing professional development course for teachers, “Reading at school –
Motivation and methods”, carried out by Bertelsmann Foundation in June 1996 at
Gütersloh.
The participants in the training contributed to develop the spiral curricula, in
order to promote and enhance reading at school.
The teams of all the towns involved in the project took this idea home and began
to develop the concepts. All the towns involved in the project have developed a
spiral curriculum and partly tested it.
Obiectives
Its overall aim,
within the project
Media partners Library and School: reading and information
literacy NRW is the
reading development among children and teenagers.
For reaching this goal,
the spiral curriculum has pursued the following specific objectives:
·
Systematic, gradual
and steady reading development
in school
·
Each school class has a
direct contact with the city library at least
once each year
·
Introduction of
different disciplines into
the cooperation between school and city library
·
Teachers’ support
in preparing and designing
lessons
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To optimise the
possibilities of preparation in the library
·
To boost the media
stock of the city library
according to the main issues of the spiral curriculum
·
To develop
new forms of partnership between school and library
·
To create a binding
basis
for the cooperation
·
To ensure the
transferability – in terms
of exemplarity – to other schools and libraries in the respective
Federal State.
Practice
The spiral curriculum
consists of teaching units, it is spiral-shaped and comprises the
classes from 1. to 10.: it set out measures – arising and one founded on the other – to develop reading.
Schools of all forms
are interested: primary, main, technical and high schools.
It includes many teaching subjects: German, English, history, geography,
biology and physics.
Its basic offers are:
·
Different ways of
conducting classes
·
Media presentations
·
Media boxes
·
Teaching in the library
·
Theme rallies.
In the report 2 exemplary spiral curricula - for the 1st
and for the 2nd degree respectively - are presented.
With regard to the single classes rich and useful examples from
different towns are utilised, since in the schools of the single
Federal States there are different
frame guidelines.
Keywords:
reading development – spiral
curriculum – public library’s role - co-operation between libraries and schools
- reading development at school - reading development among children - reading
development among teenagers – curriculum from class 1 to 10
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