Pädagogisches Landesinstitut
Rheinland-Pfalz

PLRP

Type of organization

The Pedagogical Institute of Rhineland-Palatinate (PL) is a subordinate authority of the Ministry of Education of Rhineland-Palatinate (PL), Germany

Guiding principles/ideas

The mission is the implementation of educative policy of the state Rhineland-Palatinate into the schools through teacher-in-service-training.

Focus of work

• In-service teacher training and further qualification
  
• Inclusive education
  
• Media competences based on the Digital Competences Framework for Educators (DigCompEdu)
  
• Education for democracy
  
• STEM and Education for professional orientation
  
• Consultancy system for school development, development of teaching and school management
  
• School counseling (school based solutions, prevention, intervention, crisis counseling)
  
• ​Educational web-portal for Rhineland-Palatinate

Types of activities

• Provides the schools and teachers in Rhineland-Palatinate with comprehensive and well-networked offer of teacher training activities, media and materials, pedagogical and psychological counseling as well as ICT-service.
• Supports and the schools on the execution of their educational mandate, on their pedagogical development, on their quality-oriented school development as well as on coping with current tasks.
• Provides a full range of counseling, qualification and support to all teachers, educational staff, function-related staff and principals in Rhineland-Palatinate.

A special feature

The division “European and international cooperation” of the PL has worked for 10 years in the fields of “Teaching Europe – but how?”, “Education for democracy”.