Teaching internship
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The internship is usually completed within one semester and is offered in the winter and summer semesters.
Due to the intensive supervision of the participants and the extensive reflection-oriented training in the sense of action research, the number of participants is limited to 15 per semester.
The overarching aim of the internship is to professionalize students with the help of the action research approach: 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 of this is the continuous reflection of the practical experience gained by the students and the seminar leaders as part of the events accompanying the internship.
- deepen and discuss the knowledge acquired and discussed in the specialist seminars on the didactics and methodology of GFL teaching in an application-oriented manner;
- apply their didactic and methodological knowledge in a reflective manner when analyzing lesson observations and planning, preparing and conducting independent lessons;
- recognize and describe teaching-related problems in practice, formulate alternative approaches or solutions in a team and justify them on the basis of scientific positions;
- independently expand, apply, reflect on and evaluate their own teaching skills in relation to new target groups, fields of work and new institutional framework conditions;
- be able to objectively document, reflect on 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 coordinators. Through cooperation with various adult education institutions (adult education centers to universities) and state schools, students generally have access to 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, young people and adults) as a practical field. The spectrum ranges from age- or language-homogeneous target groups (e.g. young people 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 coordinators. We will be happy to advise you on the various options.
Some Master's students have already gained practical experience at their home universities, 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 teachers who are already practising and teachers without practical experience to build up, expand and reflect on their skills.
Depending on the requirements and interests of the students, suitable placements are sought in order to expand teaching skills at a new level or with a new target group. The DaFZ teaching internship cannot be replaced by the recognition of previous teaching experience.
Many students consider the teaching placement to be very important for their studies, as the practical training in Kassel enables them to put their knowledge of teaching and learning German as a foreign and second language to the test, discuss it in small groups and reflect on it. The encounter of diverse cultural influences, which is particularly visible in the learning situation 'practical training', contributes to a continuous process of reflection on the question of effective teaching and is clearly reflected in the written practical training reports and portfolios.