School system in the Canton of

Schooling and vocational education in Zug

Markus Kunz, Leiter Schulaufsicht, Amt für gemeindliche Schulen High degree of permeability

Highly individualized

Holistic fostering of learning Quality management in the Canton 11. Cantonal education management und –controlling 12. External School evaluation

Municipality School 9. Strategic Team 7. Operational leadership Pupils leadership and and controlling 1. Learning on own responsibility 5. Work in human resource teaching 2. Building competences development 10. Performance teams education, agreement Cooperation with partners learning- and • parents 6. Cooperative career- • School-, social- and health-services development success • further schools of the tuition • Vocational trainning, companies 3. Good tuition 4. Individual feedback 8. Q-leadership Teacher and internal evaluation Holistic view education, and learning- and education career- success

professional competences

learning competences

social competences

personal competences General information

. Lehrplan 21 Kanton Zug (https://zg.lehrplan.ch) . Mainstream class, classes with additional support needs . Integration of children with difficulties . Support by remedial teacher . German as a foreign language for children with little or no knowledge of German

Präsentation der Übertrittskommission I 6 Präsentation der Übertrittskommission I 7 Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary I Kinder- primary school lower-secondary vocational training / Tertiary level

garten school upper-secondary school education

Transfer I Transfer

School entry School

Transfer II Transfer Transfer II Transfer

Präsentation der Übertrittskommission I 8 Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary I Kindergarten primary school lower-secondary vocational training / upper-secondary Tertiary level school school education

Präsentation der Übertrittskommission I 9 Private schools - an addtition to our school system . Long tradition - since 1872 . Advantage of location . 131 nationalities, 33'000 companies . Good relationship with municipal schools . 9 % of all the children are in private schools Quelle Karte: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanton_Zug (Stand: 13.5.2014) curriculum Canton of Zug curriculum homecountry (language English)

Only Kindergarten . Stepping Stones

Special pedagogical focus

. Montessori KG of Zug . kidsworld . Amaranta . globegarden . Big Bear House

. Schule Talentia Zug . Tagesschule Elementa . Futura Montessori Tagesschule Baar International schools . Lernort Moosbachhof schools . International School of Zug and Luzern . SIS Swiss International School . International School of Central

. Four-Forest Bilingual International School Bilingual Bilingual

. Institut Montana

. Kollegium St. Michael Traditional private schools Information about school system in English: www.zg.ch/schools

Information about school system in German: ww.zg.ch/schulsystem

Information about transition systems: www.zg.ch/uebertritte Thank you very much for your attention! Präsentation der Übertrittskommission I 14