Tom Fischer, born in Penzberg in 1993, graduated from high school in 2011. After a one-year college stay in the USA, he returned to Germany and completed a bachelor's degree in economics and political science (including a semester abroad in Kyoto, Japan) at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 2016. His one-year employment as a student assistant in public relations at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research was followed by a move to Berlin and enrollment in the English-language Master's program in North American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the FU Berlin, which he completed in 2022. A semester abroad in Vancouver, Canada was followed by a year and a half as a working student at Messe Berlin. During this time, his desire to take up a teaching degree for secondary schools I and II crystallized, which he took up in 2020. Since July 2021, he has been working as a research assistant at the ZeLB at the University of Potsdam. Since July 2023 he also works at the chair of Prof. Dr. Winnie-Karen Giera as a scientific support for publication processes.

Lilly Woltersdorf, born in Magdeburg in 2000, graduated from high school in Saxony-Anhalt in 2018. Subsequently, she began her teacher training studies for secondary levels I/II at the University of Potsdam in October 2018 in the subjects German and Biology. Already during her school days, Lilly noticed that she had a special interest in playing theater and later in her studies in integrating it into German lessons. She therefore wrote her bachelor's thesis with Prof. Dr. Giera on the topic of "Scenic interpretation in literature classes" using Max Frisch's "Andorra" as an example. Lilly spent her first master's semester in Aarhus, Denmark, as part of the Erasmus+ program. There she completed a semester in psychology and learned the Danish language. Since February 2023, Lilly is now working as a research assistant at the Chair of German Didactics in an Inclusive Context and supports Prof. Dr. Giera in her research project III 'Stop Bullying! A theater project'.

Jenny Jordan, born in Berlin in 1998, successfully completed her Abitur in 2019 with a focus on social work. After a six-month stay abroad in New Zealand as an au pair and caring for a small child, her long-held desire to study teaching solidified. After gaining her first practical work experience teaching at elementary school in Berlin, she began studying "German as a special education teacher" at the University of Potsdam in October 2020, majoring in learning and language. As a research assistant at the Chair of German Didactics in an Inclusive Context/Special Focus Language and Communication for Secondary Level I of Prof. Dr. Winnie-Karen Giera she supports since February 2023 the research project III "Stop Bullying! A theater project".

Mr. Yeromin was born in Mariupol in Ukraine. After school, in 2012, he completed two years of voluntary social service, during which he supported environmental and nature related projects. In 2014, he began studies in the field of hotel and restaurant management at the State College in Kiev. He completed his studies successfully in 2017. In this year he emigrated to Germany. From 2018 to 2019 he took an integration course (German language, culture, basic law) at the “Volkshochschule Neubrandenburg”. After successfully completing this course, he continued to participate in advanced German B2/C1 courses. In 2020, he was accepted into the W course (economics) at the state preparatory college at the Martin Luther University.

Since August 2021, he has been training to become an office management assistant at the University of Potsdam in more detail at the Department for German Didactics in an Inclusive Context under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Winnie-Karen Giera.

Walid Khaled Badawie, born in Berlin in 1991, graduated from high school in 2011. He then spent a year abroad and worked in his father's law firm. He began his law studies in 2015. While he found working with legal texts and expert opinion style very interesting, he missed the language component. After all, grammar was his favorite subject from the very beginning. And so he also gave tutoring in grammar or text construction / formulation since the 8th grade. This ultimately encouraged him to switch to teaching German & History at the University of Potsdam in 2019. Since 2018, he now works in another office and still tutors across subjects (primary, secondary I and II). In addition, he has been a research assistant at the Junior Professorship for German Didactics in an Inclusive Context since October 2022 and supports students with the content of Prof. Dr. Giera's service-learning program.

Lina Nagel, who was born in Berlin in 1990, completed her A-Levels in 2010. Afterwards, she did an apprenticeship as a veterinary assistant. She graduated in 2013 and worked in this field, but after a while a desire for change emerged. Therefore, she worked as a substitute teacher at an elementary school in Spandau in 2018. This has aroused great interest and joy in her. Hence, she decided to begin a teacher training for primary level in the subjects German and science at the University of Potsdam. Since May 2021, she has been working as a research assistant at the Junior Professorship for German Didactics in an Inclusive Context/Focus on Language and Communication for Secondary Level I with Prof. Dr. Giera.

Hanne-Kaja Schröter, gebürtige Berlinerin, absolvierte 2014 ihr Abitur am Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium in Neukölln. Anschließend lebte sie ein Jahr in Nsawam, Ghana, wo sie im Rahmen eines weltwärts-Freiwilligendienstes an einer Schule unterstützend tätig war. 2015 begann sie ihr Lehramtsstudium an der Universität Potsdam für die Fächer Politische Bildung und Deutsch, das sie durch die Zusatzzertifikate „Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien“ und „Interkulturelle Kompetenzen“ ergänzte. Nebenbei arbeitete sie in verschiedenen Kinder- Jugend- und Familieneinrichtungen (FEZ Berlin, Riff im Oktopus Pankow, Familienzentrum Bisamkiez, Roter Baum e.V.). Außerdem gestaltet sie Bildungsangebote für Schulen für den Besucherdienst des Landtages Brandenburg. Während ihres Studiums setzte sie sich im Rahmen von Projekten der Initiative „Kreidestaub“ mit Schulentwicklung auseinander und besuchte auf zwei Lernreisen Schulen mit unterschiedlichen Konzepten in ganz Deutschland. Ihr Praxissemester absolvierte sie an der Paula-Fürst-Gemeinschaftsschule, die als Modellschule ebenfalls unterschiedliche Lehr-Lern-Formate erprobt. Die Mitarbeit am Lehrstuhl von Prof. Giera ermöglicht es ihr nun sich, im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts „Fair Debattieren und Erörtern“, tiefer mit der Vermittlung von Lese- und Schreibkompetenzen im Rahmen von Schulunterricht auseinanderzusetzen. Das Thema Debattieren liegt ihr dabei besonders am Herzen, weil sie auch im Debattierclubs der Uni Potsdam tätig war.