Markus Feichter is the Founder and Acting Director of WOB Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy.
Markus Feichter is the founder of the Waldorf Oberschule Bolzano in South Tyrol, Italy, and is still the managing director, pedagogical expert and teacher for sustainable creative learning. In this role, he also set up a teacher training institute and set himself the goal of sustainable pedagogy with a strong connection to life and nature. He attaches great importance to alternative pedagogical methods, such as the pedagogy of Rudolf Steiner, Maria Montessori, Peter Persen and others. He further developed this pedagogy in his school and put it into practice. In this way, he not only supports students but also the teachers and parents involved. In this activity, he has given practical and project learning a large part in his curriculum. Alternative checks with a portfolio should also integrate more human-friendly quality checks and assessments.
Best Practices and Learning from Internship and Practical Projects for TVET
The use of practical learning in internships, in projects, and in practical work is crucial for sustainable learning in TVET and in online TVET. Using real examples from WOB alumni, Markus Feichter presents the school careers of alumni over the past few years. How do young people develop from school into life and how can they be successful at work.
The WOB is a middle and high school that accompanies its graduates into vocational training and university courses worldwide. The school is a real international school, which teaches in three languages in the upper level: German, Italian and English. Online learning is used in all fields of the school as well, especially after the lockdown. All teachers have made various experiences with online learning.
Over the years, the WOB has also managed to work with physically and intellectually impaired children and young people. These children and young people are fully integrated in the class. How was it with online learning?
Teacher training and parenting are just as important in the WOB as teaching children and young people. Unless other curricula and other methods of teaching are used, the desired goals cannot be achieved. How was it online during the lockdown and what can be taken from these experiences to the next future.
The COVID-19 pandemic also has financial consequences for WOB. A big drop in income forces WOB to break new ground and to think about new ideas in the area of financing.
All in all, the WOB aims to rethink schools and to put them into practice. Over the years, the international school WOB has developed a model now during the lockdown widened with online learning that could be successfully set up and implemented in many places around the world. Questions about online and homeschooling are also associated with this and will be integrated into the WOB system in the future.