Teacher training in GermanyNRW

The way to professionalism

Where I come from 16 different federal states

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ZfsL (Zentrum für schulpraktische Ausbildung), Siegen / North Rhine-Westfalia

What are the components of our 18-month teacher training?

How do our student teachers train?

• 1. at a school • 4 days a week• 12 lessons to give• Partly supervised by another

teacher• Partly on their own authority• They pick their instructors /

teacher they want to learn from themselves

• They are acompanied by a coordinator responsible for all student teachers at one school

How do they train?

• 2. at the seminar / teacher trainer centre

• 1 day per week• 3 consecutive lessons

(110 min. each) in their specific subjects and general didactics

Prof. Dr. Peter Hibst

What do they learn?

• As a start: Basic instruction in methodology in a 4-week intensive course at their teacher trainer‘s school

• After that at the teacher trainer centre: Planning, carrying out and reflecting a lesson

MethodologyThe legal side of schoolHow to cope with children and young adultsEtc. etc

The final exam

• Presentation of a 10-page draft of each lesson• Holding 2 lessons in their specific subjects• + Reflection of each lesson given• + 45‘ colloquium on general didactic aspects

Everything evaluated by a board of 3 examinars

Where I work – the ZsfL Siegen

Where I work, too – St. Ursula Gymnasium, Attendorn, private school

The region I live

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