Quality in Day Care

Social Pedagogical Training Institute Berlin-Brandenburg

The Social Pedagogical Training Institute Berlin-Brandenburg as a state-owned continuing education institution is aimed at child and youth welfare specialists from Berlin and Brandenburg and helps them to meet the continuously changing demands in their profession.

The SFBB offers an extensive programme of professional qualification and thus supports the specialists in dealing with current issues and developments and in gaining knowledge and competence for their everyday educational work.

Day care educators and prospective educators, administrators and teachers, representatives of the providers and other interested parties have the opportunity to experience practical work in accordance with the Berlin Education Programme and to enter into an exchange of professional experience on various focal points such as language education integrated into everyday routine, artistic design or discussing nature, environment and technology.

The teachers in the consultation day care centres are available with their experience and knowledge as competent specialists and look forward to an exchange of practical experiences, ideas, open questions and professional assessments.

The eight consultation day care centres in Berlin welcomes interested parties for a tour of the facility followed by an expert discussion, work shadowing or professional consultation in a small group. The Berlin Day Care Institute for Quality Development (BeKi) is supporting the project on behalf of the State of Berlin and in cooperation with the Social Pedagogical Training Institute Berlin-Brandenburg (SFBB).

This offering of the consultation day care centres is financed by the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family and is available to you free of charge. The number of consultation day care centres was expanded in 2015 with additional focal points.

You can find more information about day care centres in Berlin on the following website https://konsultationskitas.de

As part of the Berlin state programme Day care centres on the move – for a good, healthy day care centre, the focus is on supporting education and health in Berlin day care centres. The state programme initiates an ongoing organizational development process in the participating day care centres. As part of the programme, the day care centres get the opportunity to use free advanced training, professional support and an online survey for educational professionals and parents.

By including everyone involved in the daily day care routine, the participating day care centres are making a contribution to the further development of the quality of education and health – for the well-being of Berlin’s children. You can get information about the programme, the cooperation partners, the participating districts and day care centres in the information flyer.

BiSS-Transfer is a joint initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Conference of Ministers of Education for the transfer of language education and reading and writing support in schools and day care centres. It ties in with “Education through Language and Writing” (BiSS). The initiative started on 1 March 2020 and is designed to run for five years.

BiSS was a federal research and development programme that was carried out from 2013 to 2019. As part of the programme, the offerings for language training, language diagnostics and reading support for children and adolescents introduced in the federal states were scientifically examined and developed further with regard to their effectiveness and efficiency. The elementary area in the state of Berlin is participating in BiSS with three so-called associations (projects).

Since 2013, the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family Affairs has been the sponsor of an EU project in partnership with the city of Poznań (Poland) and the Astrid Lindgren Institute in Poznań. Partners in Berlin are the sponsor “Kinder in Bewegung” and the Berlin Kita Institute for Quality Development. During the program, the focus was on enabling children to actively shape their own learning processes.

Dealing with nature and the environment is attractive for young children. Many of their ‘why’ questions involve natural phenomena. The charitable foundation House of Little Researchers assists pedagogical specialists and teachers in providing qualified support to the inquiring minds of girls and boys of day care and primary school age. A number of Berlin day care centres are certified as “Houses of Little Researchers”, and educators work together in networks and undergo further training. The Senate Department for Education, Youth and Science supports the foundation in its work.

The Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family supports the Children’s Arts Centre. The centre aims to effectively strengthen early childhood cultural education in Berlin. Artists from many fields work together with the children and educational specialists from day care centres in workshops over several months, participatory exhibitions, mini-festivals or on innovative forms of parenting education. On the initiative of the Children’s Arts Centre, the Berlin network for early cultural education was founded 2012 to bring together the different participants in this area.

The Theatre and day care centre – TUKI project started in August 2011 throughout Berlin as a cooperative project between ten day care centres and ten children’s theatres. TUKI has been supported by the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family since 2014. The goal is to introduce children to the art of theatre on a permanent basis. TUKI is a forum for professionalisation both for the artists and for the teachers in the day care centres. Part of the TUKI programme is the active involvement of parents.