Teaching internship
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The internship is usually completed within one semester and is offered in the winter and summer semesters.
The intensive supervision of the participants and the extensive reflection-oriented training in the sense of action research necessitates a limitation of the number of participants to 15 participants per semester.
The overarching goal of the internship is the professionalization of the students with the help of the approach of action research: The students go through several hermeneutic spirals, in which action, reflection, hypothesis formation and testing, and the development of specific action strategies are related to each other.
An essential element is the continuous reflection of the collected practical experiences in the context of the internship-accompanying events by the students and the seminar leaders.
- deepen and discuss the knowledge acquired and discussed in the subject seminars about the didactics and methodology of teaching German as a foreign language in an application-related manner;
- use the didactic-methodical knowledge in a reflective way when analyzing lesson observations as well as when planning, preparing and carrying out lessons on one's own responsibility;
- recognize and describe teaching-related problems in practice, formulate alternative approaches or even solutions in a team and justify them on the basis of subject-specific scientific positions;
- be able to independently expand, apply, reflect on and evaluate one's own teaching competencies in relation to new target groups, fields of work and new institutional frameworks;
- be able to document, reflect and justify in writing the planning and implementation of their own teaching practice, taking into account the relevant specialist literature.
The on-site internship is organized by the internship officers. Through cooperation with various institutions of adult education (adult education centers to universities) and state schools, the students usually have up to 20 different language courses in the field of teaching German as a foreign and second language at all levels (A1 - C1) and with different target groups (children, adolescents and adults) as a practical field. The spectrum ranges from age- or language-homogeneous target groups (e.g. adolescents at school) to heterogeneous learning groups in integration courses.
The teaching internship can also be completed abroad after attending the preparatory seminars in consultation with the internship officers. We will be happy to advise you on the various possibilities.
Some Master's students have already been able to gain practical experience at their home universities, and some have already been working as teachers in Germany or abroad for several years. The teaching internship German as a Second and Foreign Language enables both already practicing teachers and teachers without practical experience to build up, expand and reflect on their competencies.
Depending on the prerequisites and interests of the students, suitable internship placements are sought in order to expand teaching competence at a new level or with a new target group. The Teaching Internship DaFZ cannot be substituted for credit for previous teaching experience.
Many students consider the teaching internship to be very important for their studies, as the practical training in Kassel enables them to practically test their knowledge of teaching and learning German as a foreign and second language, to discuss it in small groups and to reflect on it. The encounter of diverse cultural imprints, which is especially visible in the learning situation 'internship', contributes to a continuous reflection process on the question of effective teaching and is clearly reflected in the written internship reports and portfolios.