Teacher training: working with nextus in the classroom
In 2022, the nextus pilot project began its test phase at 200 partner schools in Germany, Spain and Greece. Since 2023, the partner countries Macedonia, Italy and Portugal have joined the plattform. For the 2024/25 school year, we are looking for secondary schools across Germany that would like to use nextus in their lessons and develop it further together with us. Find out more about the platform in our regular online training courses for interested teachers.
Online introduction to the film education platform nextus
• Wednesday, 27.11.2024, 06–07.30pm
• Wednesday, 22.01.2024, 06–07.30pm
Online via Zoom | Free of charge | Certification by DOK.education, educational programme of the International Documentary Film Festival Munich
Speaker: Mona Klöckner (Project Manager Film Education Platform nextus, DOK.education)
Registration: kloeckner@dokfest-muenchen.de
The fostering of media literacy is – looking at the individual curricula of the different schools in Bavaria – a cross-cutting task of all school types in the competence-oriented curricula. Media education and digital literacy is anchored in all curricula as a central interdisciplinary educational goal. Nextus offers teachers the opportunity to let students work with curated documentary films in an interactive way. The films can either complement their own subject lessons or deal with interdisciplinary topics. The documentary films help to make theoretical teaching content emotionally tangible through the example of real persons.
A great advantage of the platform is the possibility to take single clips from different films in order to create a topic-specific collection for one's own lessons. This also means that a familiarisation of the students with the genre of documentary storytelling is not a prerequisite for working with the platform. In case you want to work more deeply with the narrative specificity of this genre, the platform also offers the films in full length.
By arrangement, we can introduce interested teachers to working with the platform in individual training sessions at our partner schools. Our aim is to familiarize teachers with the possibilities of the platform and to work out in practice how they can use the platform in their individual lessons: Using a topic of their choice, teachers develop one or more clip collections that they can use directly in the classroom.
Course of the training
Part 1: Welcome and introduction, approx. 30 min.
- introduction to the platform nextus
- Introduction to artistic documentary film as distinct from reportage
Part 2: Practical planning of an own teaching unit, approx. 1 hour
- In the second part, working with the platform is shown on the basis of a specific curriculum
- Planning a teaching sequence: Under guidance, teachers will compile documentary film clips into collections based on their desired teaching topic
- Conclusion: teachers present their clip-collections, Q&A
You are not yet registered with nextus? Then sign up here for a free trial or contact our DOK.education team.
All further information about the film education platform can be found here on our website.
Past teacher trainings:
Double lesson on climate change with documentary film
Sat, 2 July 2022, 10.00–12.00am
Using three film clips from the documentary THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND, we will analyze how the causes of climate change are dealt with in the documentary and get to know the inhabitants of the affected island.
Four action steps will guide you through the lesson: analysis by watching the film excerpts, research on the topic, discussion in the group and becoming active yourself. The aim of the training is to provide you with a well-structured teaching unit that you can use to supplement your own teaching on the relevant topic of climate change. The training is led by Andreas Knorr, teacher for pedagogy/psychology, politics and society at the Anita-Augspurg BOS Munich and Kathi Seemann, project manager of nextus and employee at DOK.education.
The training is aimed at teachers nationwide who are interested in the film education platform nextus or who are testing it with us as a partner school. In relation to the curriculum at Bavarian schools, we recommend this teaching unit to Realschule teachers of the 7th–9th grade and Gymnasium teachers of the 10th grade from the subject areas biology, geography as well as politics and society. Participation in the training is free of charge and certified by DOK.education, the educational programme of the Munich International Documentary Film Festival.
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