• Workshops for school classes. Focus on modeling as a teaching and learning strategy.
• In-class training. Approved teacher trainings are directly going to be held in class.
• Online platform. Material collection, ready-to-use guidelines for the implementation of the Digital Education (digitale Grundbildung), learning videos, online tool for modeling, online tool to check the competences in the field of computational thinking.
• Educational pyramid scheme. Concept to spread innovations within the school system. According to a train-the-trainer principle, teachers and students will be qualified to be trainers, who then spread their knowledge and skills to people in their school. The motivation to participate will be maintained with a benefit system.
• Modeling. As an effective, brain-based tool to support teaching and learning within all subjects and school levels.

Through this project we expect:

–   that teacher educators, teachers and students recognize the potential of modeling as learning strategy, which can support learning and teaching in different subjects,

–   that the developed educational pyramid scheme will bring the developed framework, guidelines, tools and materials to a large audience and, hence, help to integrate computational thinking sustainably as transversal theme in different subjects of primary and secondary education.

This may have an immediate impact on school practice because teachers will finally get a guideline how to deal with computational thinking as transversal theme (something, that still causes problems for teachers without computer science background who have to integrate it in their subjects). A consequent integration and use of modeling in several subjects will also have positive long-term impacts. We suppose, that it can improve skills like problem solving or text comprehension. Empirical studies in this field would be very important and could be part of a follow-up research project with the same partners.