Who are Chads, Alphas, Red Piller, Tradwives, Stay-at-home Girlfriends, Looksmaxxers, Incels or Femcels - and what is considered "real masculinity"? Anti-feminist online communities are increasingly shaping digital discourse and spreading misogynistic ideologies that

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In order to participate in the digital barcamp MUBNE26 as part of LehramtPLUS, a session proposal must be submitted after unisono admission (see event link). As a student teacher, you can actively contribute to the exchange with stakeholders in media education and education for sustainable development (ESD) with your school pedagogical perspective and your experience from your studies and internships. Prepare a five-minute keynote speech for your session proposal submitted online, which can relate to a freely chosen topic or question on digitalization and sustainability in the school context. Participation in the Barcamp introduction and the subsequent keynote speech as well as at least two other sessions is mandatory. If your own session proposal is added to the Barcamp agenda, participation and presentation of your keynote speech is mandatory. In addition, you are free to choose which sessions you would like to take part in according to your own interests (tip: take inspiration from previous Barcamps). For your certificate of participation, please send a written summary of your Barcamp participation to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de by 31.05.2026, in which you outline the content of your two session participations on a maximum of two pages and provide an overall summary with a school reference. If you participate in more than two sessions, you are free to choose which two sessions your summary refers to. Information on the Barcamp schedule can be found on the MUBNE26 event website - Unisono registration deadline: 4 p.m. on May 6, 2026.

Study and career guidance at schools has experienced an enormous increase in importance in recent years, which is evident in legally anchored programs such as "Kein Abschluss ohne Anschluss" (KAOA) in NRW. It is not uncommon for young teachers in particular to be entrusted with the task of study and career choice coordination (StuBo). This workshop will provide a brief introduction to the framework conditions for study and careers guidance in schools. The primary focus is on talent scouting, which has spread from the Ruhr region to more and more areas of NRW and Germany and is also being implemented in the districts of Siegen-Wittgenstein and Olpe. Talent scouting is primarily aimed at pupils from non-academic families and helps to reduce educational inequality. Participants will learn about the concept and its underlying sociological theories and economic implications and reflect on how it can be implemented in everyday school life. - Unisono registration deadline: 1 week before the event date. - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

NotebookLM is an AI-supported research and learning assistant from Google that is based on your own uploaded documents (PDFs, websites, Google Docs, etc.) instead of searching the general Internet. It uses Google Gemini AI to analyze your materials, answer questions, create summaries, explain concepts, and even generate audio overviews or flashcards to help you process knowledge and develop ideas, with a focus on accuracy through direct referencing. - In approximately two-hour workshops, media consultants provide suggestions for lesson development using digital tools and media. They answer questions and promote networking among teachers as well as the exchange of ideas and information. These offers are intended to support schools in the pedagogical development of their own media concept with practical examples from the NRW media competence framework. The offer is aimed at all interested teachers, trainee teachers and media officers and is now also open to student teachers. - Addressees: All types of schools. - Prior knowledge/aids: A Google account with access to NotebookLM is required (website or app). - Registration via the event link (edumap). - Issue of certificates of attendance: directly from the media advisors.

They are colorful, sweet and tempting in all imaginable flavors: E-cigarettes allow the discreet consumption of nicotine and are becoming increasingly popular, especially among adolescents - as the age of entry gets younger! This workshop is designed as a multiplier training course and deals with the topics of vapes/e-cigarettes and social media, the environment, structure and function, ingredients, effects and side effects. Upon completion of this prevention workshop, you are entitled to borrow a corresponding method bag for your own teaching practice from the Landesfachstelle Prävention der Suchtkooperation NRW - Registration deadline: 1 week before the event date. - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

The excursion offers a compact insight into TUMO Lüdenscheid as an innovative educational center for digital future skills. During the visit, both the b.labs as school-related technology and creative labs and the TUMO learning path will be in live operation. First, an ongoing b.labs cooperation with the technology class 9 of a secondary school can be observed, in which practical work is carried out with robotics, coding and digital tools. This is followed by an insight into the TUMO learning path, a voluntary learning program for young people based on an internationally proven learning model, coaching structures and modern learning spaces. The excursion shows how young people in both formats learn independently, work creatively and use future technologies. - Registration deadline: 1 week before the event date (max. 15 participants). - Travel must be organized by the participants themselves. - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

he multi-pot course is aimed at educational and medical professionals as well as other multipliers and is intended to deepen knowledge about specific addictive substances and provide targeted strategies for dealing with young people and adults who use them. Participants should adopt two perspectives when completing the course: On the one hand, looking outwards: What do addiction and addictive substances have to do with my target group? What relevance does this have for my work? Why do young people use? How do I talk to people who use addictive substances? On the other hand, looking inwards: What does the use of addictive substances mean for me personally? What is my own attitude? How do I deal with people who use addictive substances? What does my own consumption behavior look like? How do I deal with stress - Registration deadline: 1 week before the event date (min. 10, max. 25 participants). - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

Announcement text to follow. - Registration deadline: 1 week before the event date. - The Webex access link will be emailed to participants admitted in unisono the day before the event. - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

Against the backdrop of current social developments, the lecture will shed light on how to deal with misanthropic and right-wing extremist statements in the school context. Based on empirical findings on political attitudes, problem situations and media use of young people with a special focus on Thuringia, the background and manifestations of misanthropic statements will be classified. The influences of peer groups, parental homes and social media as central socialization instances are also taken into account. In addition, the relevance of school interventions, the legal mandate of teachers and the basic legal framework are discussed. Building on this, practical options for action will be presented in order to be able to react appropriately to such situations in everyday school life. - Registration is not necessary. - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

When proven pedagogical measures stagnate, the focus often narrows to the "problem". This workshop invites you to leave the collective problem trance and understand behavior as a circular communication offer. One focus is on hypnosystemic attention control: How does one's own inner state (self-regulation) influence the dynamics in the classroom? We develop strategies for emotion regulation in order to enable co-regulation through professional presence and to create scope for de-escalation. Instead of focusing on changing the student, we start by interrupting patterns and using existing resources. "If something works, do more of it. If not, interrupt the pattern and experiment with something new." - Registration deadline: 1 week before the event date (max. 20 participants). - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

More than ten percent of all students care for relatives. This is often a burden for them - but those around them are usually unaware of it. Two projects and their results (including the "Intercare" research project) will be presented, followed by a discussion. - Register by 29.05.26 by e-mail to familienservice.gleichstellung@uni-siegen.de. - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

In this age of AI, it has become easier for students to avoid human interactions. Yet learning to interact with other humans is essential for personal wellness and civil society. Learn ways to teach interpersonal skills and develop your own capacity for building relationships with others - Registration is not required. - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

Our voice goes through various challenges in the course of our lives. When starting out as a teacher, there is often more vocal strain and failures. This workshop will focus on how you can get through the school day and use your voice well throughout the entire period. We will dispel vocal myths and practise how to achieve a powerful and efficient voice. - Registration deadline: 1 week before the event date (min. 5, max. 20 participants). - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

Who doesn't know the gnawing insecurity, especially at the beginning of a career? As a teacher, am I allowed to express my own opinion in class or do I have to remain "neutral"? How do I react when students, colleagues or parents express polemic, polarizing or inhumane positions? What does neutrality really mean in the context of school? In this educational theater workshop, we will take a playful and practical look at the "neutrality requirement" and the associated doubts, fears and gray areas of being a teacher. Together we will explore burning questions: How much attitude can - or must - I show? Where are the legal boundaries (not)? And how do I overcome speechlessness in difficult situations? After an introduction to the content, we will work on specific scenarios from everyday school life using forum theater (Augusto Boal) and improvisational theater: a pupil shouts right-wing slogans in the playground, parents address the teacher about her political stance, a colleague complains about "left-wing indoctrination" among the teaching staff - participants can bring in their own experiences, concerns and observations at any time. In an open, appreciative and performance-free space, we try out options for action together, reflect on the effects and develop the courage and confidence to take a stand and overcome speechlessness. Legal principles serve as orientation. The workshop is aimed at prospective teachers who want more confidence, clarity and room for maneuver when dealing with political and social issues in the school context. The workshop will be led by Pierre Stoltenfeldt, theater educator at the Apollo Theater and the Bruchwerk Theater, who has been working for many years with different age groups on drama, improvisational theater and social issues. - Registration deadline: 1 week before the event date (max. 20 participants). - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

The following workshop is part of a series in which each session deals with a central aspect of academic writing during studies. Student teachers can transfer the workshop's findings to writing in schools, especially with regard to the multilingualism of their future pupils. In this session, we will explore the question of how multilingualism can be used as a resource when writing academic texts. We will first define what we mean by "multilingualism" and become aware of our own repertoire of linguistic resources, which goes beyond a categorization of first/second and foreign language. Building on this, we will look at the extent to which multilingualism makes the writing of academic texts more complex and which strategies can be used to ease the burden. We will then discuss how we can specifically use multilingual skills for academic writing. - Registration for the workshop takes place via unisono in the course of registering for the entire ZefaS workshop series, of which only individual dates can be attended (see below). - Certificates of attendance can be requested from ZefaS.

The Photon Sets consist of a dog-shaped robot and detailed teaching suggestions for social-emotional learning. We try out some teaching ideas on site and also take a closer look at the programming. The sets are preferably used in small groups and are not only interesting for children with special needs. - In workshops lasting around two hours, media advisors provide suggestions for developing lessons with the help of digital tools and media. They answer questions and promote networking between teachers as well as the exchange of ideas and information. These offers are intended to support schools in the pedagogical development of their own media concept with practical examples from the NRW media competence framework. The offer is aimed at all interested teachers, trainee teachers and media officers and is now also open to student teachers. - Addressees: Primary school teachers. - Prior knowledge/aids: None. - Registration via the event link (edumap). - Issue of certificates of attendance: directly from the media advisors.

The lecture takes a critical look at the media portrayal of migrant-marked masculinities. The focus is on the emergence and impact of stereotyping narratives in journalism, film and pop culture. Historical and current examples will be used to show how masculinity, violence and foreignness are interlinked and made politically useful in times of anti-feminism. The event invites you to question these images and discuss diversity, representation and gender equality in a post-migrant society. - Registration deadline: 1 week before the event date. - The Webex access link will be emailed to participants admitted in unisono the day before the event. - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

How is AI changing the way we deal with information, learning and teaching? How do I shape the change professionally? In the workshop "Researching and teaching with AI", we show how generative AI tools can be used consciously, reflectively and purposefully in teaching. We will shed light on how AI supports source and material research and where its limitations, risks and pitfalls lie. We will try out practical ways of planning lessons, creating materials and adapting tasks for different learning groups using AI. We will also explore the extent to which AI influences the understanding of the roles of learners and teachers on the one hand and the potential of learning forms and learning environments on the other. The six-hour workshop (including breaks) offers plenty of time for discussion, experimentation and your own questions. You are welcome to bring along specific examples that you would like to work on! - Unisono registration deadline: 1 week before the event date (max. 20 participants). - Certificate of attendance: You will receive your certificate by e-mail from the UB after the event.

We visit the school for the sick at the DRK Children's Hospital Siegen together! For school-age patients who stay at the DRK Children's Hospital in Siegen for longer than four weeks, there is the so-called "School for the Sick" - a school in the hospital. Find out how teaching and learning is organized there, how you can imagine everyday school life and much more from Annette Ott, principal of the school for the sick at the DRK Children's Hospital.

The news about wars and conflicts between states and within society is threatening. At the same time, many teachers are worried about speaking out on political issues in the classroom. This event is about the neutrality required of teachers, whose performance of their duties must be fair and open to different opinions. What does it mean in practice when the Education Act "does not tolerate any political, religious, ideological or similar expressions" that "endanger or disturb the neutrality of the country or the peace of the school"? How can teachers defend democracy, reject racism and anti-Semitism without violating the required neutrality? What is meant when the "Beutelsbach Consensus" emphasizes the controversial nature of political education? The workshop offered is intended to help clarify these and other questions. In addition to legal and pedagogical principles, numerous practical examples will serve as illustrative aids. - Registration is possible via the unisono link below. - Certificates of participation are available after the event by sending an e-mail request to diversiteach@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

Conflicts in everyday pedagogical life are often viewed with the claim that they can be solved primarily through professional knowledge and rational argumentation. But this is a common misconception: in moments of heightened tension, our knowledge often becomes disconnected. Cognitive abilities such as analysis and changing perspective are blocked - our nervous system switches from rational thinking to impulsive action. In such situations, automatic reaction patterns take over: Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn. Pedagogical professionalism therefore requires not only expertise, but above all the ability to regulate oneself. Mindful conflict management does not view conflicts as disruptions, but as opportunities for self-reflection and the further development of one's own authentic, professional presence. This approach promotes an attitude that works both internally and externally: attentive, clear, stable and free from impulsive reactivity. - Registration deadline: 1 week before the event date (min. 6 participants, max. 20 participants). - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

The two-part workshop "AI and literature research" teaches how generative AI tools can be used specifically and responsibly for scientific research. In the first part (basics), the central principles of generative AI are presented. The focus is on opportunities and risks - for example in relation to data protection, copyright and bias - as well as criteria for a reflected and responsible use of AI-supported applications in studies. In the second part (in-depth), the focus is on practical application: participants will expand their knowledge of prompting, test various AI-supported research tools (including licensed offers from Siegen University Library) and develop a viable research strategy for their own topic at various stations. - Registration: Link to the event page (see below). Certificate of attendance: You will receive your certificate by email from the University Library after the event.

The idea of future skills comes from a business-oriented and, in a sense, future-optimistic milieu that assumes that current social developments will continue in the future. Although "disruption" and "radical change" are considered, this thinking remains fundamentally fixed on economic growth and a market-based economy within the framework of globalized nation states. However, it remains questionable whether this is the framework within which our future will unfold. The multiple crises we find ourselves in (global warming, species extinction, massive social inequalities, erosion of liberal democracies and international law, etc.) seem to call into question the current concept of future skills. Perhaps schools, teacher training, and pedagogy in general need to ask the question about the future in a radically different way. What challenges will we face in the coming dystopian future, which may turn out to be completely different after all? And: does dystopia automatically mean "worse"? Perhaps there is also a moment (or several moments) of liberation and emancipation in dystopia? Drawing from the work of philosopher Bruno Latour and literary and cultural scholar Peggy Piesche, I aim to develop theses on an alternative form of future skills. These skills are primarily characterized by a commitment to caring for one another and earth and ensuring human survival with dignity, as well as a critical stance toward power and discrimination. These theses will be discussed with the participants at the end of the session. - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

School education can be implemented in many different ways, which is why we would like to offer you the opportunity to visit the school at Wuppertal-Ronsdorf Prison as part of an excursion. The plan is to sit in on a lesson and visit the prison itself. You must organize your own travel arrangements. The number of participants is limited and lots will be drawn. Please register in unisono by 17.05.2026!

It will be shown how a simple workflow for creating and printing a 3D model can look for all class levels and school types. The software TinkerCad and BambuStudio will be used. In addition, the BambuLab P1S 3D printers will be presented and an introduction to their operation will be given - In approximately two-hour workshops, media consultants will provide suggestions for developing lessons with the help of digital tools and media. They answer questions and promote networking among teachers as well as the exchange of ideas and information. These offers are intended to support schools in the pedagogical development of their own media concept with practical examples from the NRW media competence framework. The offer is aimed at all interested teachers, trainee teachers and media officers and is now also open to student teachers. - Addressees: All school types. - Prior knowledge/aids: No prior knowledge, own PC/laptop is an advantage - registration via the event link (edumap). - Issue of certificates of attendance: directly from the media advisors.

Not only children and young people with experiences of war and flight can be affected by traumatization - other (violent) experiences can also leave lasting traces. At school, this stress often manifests itself in unpredictable behavior and is often perceived as behavioral problems or a need for special educational support. This poses a particular challenge for trainee teachers: Between caring, uncertainty and excessive demands, it is important to act professionally. This course provides basic knowledge about the development of trauma and its effects on the inner experience and behavior of children and young people. It also addresses how schools can develop in a trauma-sensitive way in order to be a safe place for everyone. There is also a special focus on the role of the teacher: how can you deal with stressful situations without overburdening yourself? What does secondary traumatization mean and how can self-care succeed? - Registration deadline: 1 week before the event date (max. 20 participants). - To receive a certificate of attendance, please send an e-mail to lehramtplus@zlb.uni-siegen.de.

This workshop is an in-depth workshop, which requires participation in the basic workshop (29.06.2026) for registration. The two-part workshop "AI and literature research" teaches how generative AI tools can be used specifically and responsibly for scientific research. In the first part (basics), the central principles of generative AI are presented. The focus is on opportunities and risks - for example in relation to data protection, copyright and bias - as well as criteria for a reflected and responsible use of AI-supported applications in studies. In the second part (in-depth), the focus is on practical application: participants will expand their knowledge of prompting, test various AI-supported research tools (including licensed offers from Siegen University Library) and develop a viable research strategy for their own topic at various stations. - Registration: Link to the event page (see below). - Prerequisite: Participation in the basic workshop of the same name on 29.06.2026. - Certificate of participation: You will receive your certificate by e-mail from the University Library after the event.

The methods and content of the "Love, Friendship, Sexuality" educational course for teenagers and young adults aged between 13 and 21 will be presented, the materials themselves will be tested and the concept and the possibility of borrowing the course for your own teaching practice will be discussed. This workshop will focus on the "Society" part of the course. It deals with current issues that affect the reality of young people's lives, shows ways of strengthening self-esteem and self-care and discusses methods of prevention and protection. The following stations will be addressed: 1. "Porn, sexting and co." (pornography, safer sexting, consensus, legal framework), 2. "Mirror, mirror" (beauty ideals, self-image and self-confidence, influence of social media), 3. "Comfort zone" (sexualized violence, personal boundaries), 4. "Life paths" (social diversity, tolerance and respect, sexual orientations and gender identities). The workshop deepens knowledge on the individual topics and trains sensitive communication in an age- and target group-appropriate manner. - Registration deadline: 1 week before the event (min. 15 participants, max. 25). - Certificates of attendance will be issued on site.

This event is aimed at all LehramtPlus graduates and participants shortly before completing the certificate who are missing a maximum of 6 AE from their total workload. Before handing over the certificate, we will look back together on your LA+ further education path and create points of contact for future steps in your professionalization process. - For this event, a profile must be submitted in advance of the event date, the template of which will be emailed to you after the registration deadline. - Registration deadline: July 19, 2026 (max. 15 participants).