Research Project III: Das Potsdamer Inklusionsdidaktische Unterrichtsmodell (The Inclusive Educational Model)

How can (future) teachers plan, implement and reflect on inclusive teaching? This is a question that all teachers in all subjects are currently asking themselves. A working group at the Centre for Teacher Training and Educational Research spent almost three years working on an inclusion didactic teaching model for teacher training courses and school practice, the Potsdam Inclusion Didactic Teaching Model (PIMODE). In total, over 60 researchers, students from the University of Potsdam and school practitioners (e.g. teachers, training coaches from teacher training centres) were involved in the working group.

In July 2025, the anthology ‘The Potsdam Inclusion Didactic Teaching Model: Systematically Designing Inclusive Teaching and Learning Opportunities’ was published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam as an open access publication! In addition to a theoretical classification of the model, it contains practice-oriented contributions for various subjects that demonstrate the application of PIMODE. The anthology contains also an English article about the model for international context. Feel free to browse through the anthology at https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/66846!

Feel free to contact us if you have any suggestions, questions or further ideas about the Potsdam Inclusive Didactic Teaching Model and its use in research, teaching and classroom practice!