Dresden (dpa/sn) - The "hybrid lessons" pilot project is being tested in eastern Saxony to offer a wider range of courses for schoolchildren in rural areas. Three schools in Niesky, Weißwasser and Görlitz are cooperating with each other, as the Ministry of Education announced on Tuesday. In the project, the positive experiences of the teaching model from the Corona period are to be continued, further evaluated and, if necessary, expanded.
There will be a joint advanced course in biology at the grammar schools in Niesky and Weißwasser. The face-to-face lessons take place at one school and are transmitted to the other locations via video link. The teacher teaches the practical part on site at the individual schools. According to the same model, there will be a joint advanced course in physics in Görlitz and Niesky.
Without the project, these advanced courses would not exist due to the number of students, said Minister of Education Christian Piwarz. "The three grammar schools can thus prove that a broad and good education can also be offered in smaller schools in rural areas and that the students have the same opportunities as in the big city," emphasized the CDU politician.
In Saxony, at least ten students have to come together for a subject so that an advanced course can be offered at all in the upper secondary school. According to the current school forecast by the State Statistical Office, the number of school children is expected to increase by the 2035/36 school year only in the Leipzig region and in the independent cities of Chemnitz and Dresden. All other districts, on the other hand, have to reckon with falling student numbers.
