COMPASS

The KOMPASS project at Bavarian secondary schools is designed to take into account the individual strengths and abilities of the students and to enable them to participate in educational opportunities as best as possible despite their differences and diversity.

It offers support in the following areas:

1. Teaching development: KOMPASS supports schools and teachers in the further development of teaching.

2. Promoting personal and social skills: The project aims to strengthen the social and personal skills of young people.

3. Teacher professionalization: KOMPASS offers a wide range of support for teachers¹².

The successful KOMPASS pilot project was expanded to cover the whole of Bavaria and has helped to increase job satisfaction and further develop schools.

What is KOMPASS aiming for?

KOMPASS schools are increasingly working to organize learning processes in such a way that students have the opportunity to make the best use of their individual strengths. The main goals here are: transparency and clarity about the skills to be achieved, strengthening the personality and the joy of learning, systematically promoting the independence and initiative of students, a strong focus on recognition and making what has been achieved visible.

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What successes did the pilot project achieve?
KOMPASS has achieved visible and empirically measurable successes:

• KOMPASS promotes self-confidence. The natural decline in self-confidence and motivation that occurs in adolescence, especially in grades 7 to 10, can be largely offset by the KOMPASS measures. Pupils in KOMPASS classes rate their self-efficacy higher. They are more convinced than average that they can improve their own skills through learning activities. This is an important attitude in order to be able to convert performance potential into learning gains.

• KOMPASS promotes interest in school and thus also motivation to learn and willingness to perform. A greater interest in school learning content in the evaluated core subjects of German, English and mathematics was demonstrated, especially among pupils in grades 8 to 10.

• KOMPASS strengthens independence in learning processes. Students learn to think and act independently and solve problems - an important prerequisite for the future world of work.

• KOMPASS helps to promote the ability to work in a team. Pupils in KOMPASS classes are on average more positive about cooperative learning methods than the other pupils. Cooperative learning methods are seen as an important prerequisite for later professional teamwork skills.

• KOMPASS leads to qualitative improvements in school-internal communication, school climate and school development. This is achieved through...
  ... emphasis on cooperative working methods (team teaching, etc.)
  ... a stronger exchange between teachers (KOMPASS teams etc.)
  ... flexible and therefore tailor-made concepts for promoting
  ... Strengthening personal responsibility

• KOMPASS leads to a change in the way teachers see themselves: teachers increasingly see themselves as learning coaches who organize, initiate and accompany learning processes. This change in role has a positive effect on the school climate and the quality of teaching. It has also been proven that teachers are more satisfied with their jobs.

KOMPASS measures therefore have an impact on the entire school family and also lead to greater job satisfaction among colleagues.