Oral State Examination

Timing Autumn

  • Please register by email with me by April 30 of the exam year to be the first examiner. You will be informed by me if I can accept you.
  • As soon as I have been assigned to you as a second examiner, please contact me by e-mail - by July 12 at the latest.
  • There will be a group consultation hour for the oral exams inmid to late July , during which the general procedure and appropriate topic soundings will take place. Participation in this consultation hour is mandatory.

Timing Spring

  • Please email me by October 31 of the pre-exam year to register for the exam as the first examiner. You will be informed by me if I can accept you.
  • Once I have been assigned to you as a secondary examiner, please contact me by email - no later than December 12.
  • Before Christmas, there will be a collective consultation hour for the oral examinations, during which the general procedure and appropriate topic soundings will take place. Participation in this consultation hour is obligatory.

Exam Topics

I orally examine only the subject area 1 - Pedagogy and Psychology. Please contact examiners from department 05 for topic area 2.

The following topics are focus topics - if necessary, we can also negotiate other topics.

  • What is good teaching?
  • What is a good teacher?
  • Homework
  • Performance assessment
  • Antinomies of teacher action
  • Teacher professionalization
  • School development