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The Hamburg Center for Teacher Education (ZLH)

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Dr. Britt Schmidt

Dekoratives Element

Photo: Britt Schmidt

Managing Director of the Hamburg Center of Education

Geschäftsführung des ZLH

Address

University of Hamburg
Bogenallee 11
20144 Hamburg

Office

Room: 205

Contact

Tel: +49 40 2395-28183

Key aspects of activity

  • Managing Director ZLH
  • Coordinator Teaching Laboratory Teacher Professionalization (L3Prof)
  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Project "Diversity Contexts in Teacher Education"

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Carreer

12/2015 - present University of Hamburg (UHH)
The Hamburg Center for Teacher Education (ZLH)
Managing Director
2021 – 2024 Co-Applicant and Collaboration in the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Project "Diversity Contexts in Teacher Education" (DiCoT)
2016 – 2025 Coordinator Teaching Laboratory Teacher Professionalization (L3Prof & L3Prof 2.0)
04/2012 – 11/2015 University of Würzburg (JMU)
Professional School of Education or, more precisely the former Center for Teacher Education (PSE / ZfL)
Managing Director
11/2001 – 03/2012 University of Hildesheim (Uni HI)
Centre for Education and Teaching research (CeBU)
Coordinator of the center
Coordination of a PhD program in teaching research (2008-2012)
09/2000 – 10/2001 University of Hamburg
Assistant in the Coordination Office in the Collaborative Research Center SFB 520: Dealing with Social Transformation in African Societies


Education

07/2009 University of Hildesheim
PhD Multilingualism in Primary Schools (magna cum laude)
10/1993 – 11/2001 University of Hamburg
Master’s degree in Applied languages and African Languages (Grade 1.0)
10/1994 – 09/1995 University of Kano (Nigeria)
Study of the Hausa language
10/1991 – 09/1993 University of Cologne
Master’s degree program in African Languages, Prehistory and Sociology
08/1988 – 01/1991 Apprenticeship: Industrial Mechanic for Fine Engineering Equipment

Professional Training

2021-2025

DiCoT-Qualification in Anti-Bias-Approach (multi-day workshops)
Social digital leadership (microteaching)
Dealing with racism (workshop)

Seminars taught at universities

University of Hamburg

  • LAGS-WMG: Discrimination-critical and diversity-sensitive primary schools (WiSe 2024/25, WiSe 2025/26 UHH)
  • Preparatory seminar orientation internship and preparatory seminar integrated internship Diversity Contexts in Teacher Education (DiCoT) (WiSe 2021/22, WiSe 2022/23)
  • Educational equity in the context of social and linguistic heterogeneity (2019/20)
  • Multilingualism and migration in schools (WiSe 2018/19, UHH)

University of Würzburg

  • How can Learning work in Heterogeneous Groups? Practical Seminar: German as a Second Language Tandems (SoSe 2015)
  • Selected Aspects of Primary Education (WiSe 2014/15)
  • Supplementary Event Lehr:werkstatt (WiSe 2014/15, SoSe 2015)
  • Primary Schools as a Professional Field of Activity and Area of Research (SoSe 2013, SoSe 2014, SoSe 2015)
  • Multilingualism in Primary Schools (WiSe 2012/13, WiSe 2013/14)

University of Hildesheim

  • Practical School Studies (WiSe 2010/11, SoSe 2011, WiSe 2011/12)

Organization of relevant conference

2024: 44. Annual Conference of the Federal Working Group on Practical School Studies (BaSS) - International school-based Studies: Objectives, Opportunities, and Challenges (UHH)