Seminar as part of teaching qualification

The following people require the shortened basic qualification of 70 TU:

• Teaching staff with a teaching qualification for German or modern foreign languages
• Teaching staff with more than 5 years of teaching experience and teaching qualifications in other school subjects or with a degree in social education or Master’s degree in Germanistics, Romance studies, English studies, etc.
• Teaching staff with a German teaching qualification gained abroad
• Teaching staff with a degree in adult education (andragogy)
• Teaching staff with the qualification from the Goethe-Institut up to the end of 2004 (see below if the 5 year validity has expired)

Costs: The BAMF gives a subsidy of €650 per participant for the seminar with 70 TU, which is settled directly with the bearer. The participants’ own contribution to the qualification is €150, which must be paid before the course begins.

Aims and content

Topics	Teaching units
Migration and migrants	4 TU
Features of and methodical approaches to DaZ lessons	3 TU
Seminar participants experience beginners’ foreign language lessons themselves	3 TU
Analysis of DaZ lessons	4 TU
Analysis and assessment of the teaching material	4 TU
Vocabulary instruction	4 TU
Receptive skills	6 TU
Phonetics	4 TU
Productive skills	6 TU
Combined skills	*)
Grammar	4 TU
Practice activities, social forms and work instructions	2 TU
Playful exercises, language learning games and games	2 TU
Errors and correcting errors	2 TU
Heterogeneity and internal differentiation	4 TU
Intercultural learning	2 TU
Tests and examinations	4 TU
Course participant consultation	2 TU
Optional topics in attendance phases Conflict management in DaZ lessons Helpful advice Work-orientated DaZ lessons Literacy in DaZ lessons A different type of school – parents learning German Project work Learning to learn Visualisation New media	total 10 TU

*) ‘Combined skills’ means consolidating two skills, such as phonetics and writing. If ‘combined skills’ are offered together, which requires several TU, the number of TU for the individual skills is reduced.