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As the learning outcomes demonstrate, this model of integrating theoretical knowledgewith experienced-based learning scenarios appears to be quite successful.IntroductionIn our chapter, we seek to document and evaluate the continuing educationmethod for teacher training we developed and subsequently tested in a workshopin January 2008. This workshop on gender-sensitive education took placein the context of voluntary continuing education programs for grammar schoolteachers in Austria. In the course of this article, we evaluate the concept anddescription of the workshop, the written and oral feedback from the participants,their reflections regarding us as leaders of the workshop. It is importantfor us to work out which contextual contributions and methods used withinthe workshop were important for the participants, which discussions were particularlyfruitful and which were less effective.As authors our interest lies within the evaluation of this continuing educationprogram, so that the concept of gender-sensitive teaching can be furtherdeveloped by teachers as they apply this method in their schools.The aim of the workshop was to impart some basic, theoretical backgroundknowledge of gender-sensitive didactics and to give more life to thistheoretical information through reflection, testing, and practice. The focus wason visualizing alternative identities, presenting methods for dealing with thetopic of “gender” in classrooms, and testing the methods. The goal was forteachers to use the experience to reflect on their own self-perception and torecognize their own prejudices and categorizations.This article is an attempt to reflect on the theoretical ideas that wereput into practice at the workshop as well as the results of this way of teachingtheory. Furthermore, we seek to provide readers of this text with our results fortesting, adjusting and amending the theories based on our experiences.In the first section below, we place our workshop within the contextof continuing education of Austrian grammar school teachers. Section twocontains a description of the concept and the schedule of the workshop.Section three describes what the participants could learn. Here we presentthe content we aimed to impart, namely: gender-sensitive teaching and itsaspects concerning access and framework conditions, curriculum, and teachingmethods. In section four, we describe how the participants could learn128