Application for SCHULWÄRTS!

If you would like to apply for a SCHULWÄRTS! placement, you can find all the information about the application documents and access to our application portal here.

Bewerbungsphase für SCHULWÄRTS!-Praktika im Herbst 2025

Neue Bewerbungsphase für SCHULWÄRTS!-Praktika im Spätsommer & Herbst 2025

Die zweite Bewerbungsphase beginnt am 17.03.2025 für eine begrenzte Zahl an Plätzen in der zweiten Jahreshälfte 2025. Diese läuft bis zum 20.04.2025.

Das Bewerbungsportal öffnet am 17.03. aus technischen Gründen erst um 12 Uhr und schließt am 20.04. um 23.59 Uhr. Sollten sie in der ersten Bewerbungsphase keinen Platz erhalten haben, laden wir sie herzlich zur erneuten Bewerbung für Praktika in der zweiten Jahreshälfte ein.

Während der Bewerbungsphase finden zwei unverbindliche Informationstermine digital statt, bei denen wir über das Programm und den Bewerbungsablauf informieren.  

Der erste Termin findet am Freitag, den 28.03. um 13 Uhr auf Microsoft Teams statt und dauert ca. 60 Minuten. Den Link zum Beitreten finden Sie hier. Falls Sie am ersten Termin keine Zeit haben, findet ein Alternativtermin am Montag, den 07.04. um 13 Uhr statt. Diesem können Sie über diesen Link beitreten.

Sollten sie keine Informationen verpassen wollen, so können sie sich jederzeit für unseren Bewerber*innen-Newsletter anmelden. Schicken Sie dazu bitte eine E-Mail an schulwaerts@goethe.de mit dem Betreff "Anmeldung Newsletter".

Further information about application documents

PERSONAL STATEMENT

Maximum length: two pages

Please address the following questions in your personal statement:
  • Why do you want to do a placement abroad?
  • In which of the available host countries would you like to be placed? Please give reasons for your first, second and third preferences.
  • What previous experience do you have, if any, in teaching German as a foreign/second language (DaF/DaZ) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)?
  • Have you ever worked abroad for an extended period of time? If so, where? What did you do there? 


OUTLINE OF A LESSON OR EXTRA-CURRICULAR PROJECT IN ONE OF YOUR STUDENT TEACHING SUBJECTS

Maximum length: two pages

In planning your lesson, please bear the following considerations in mind:
  • This outline is to give us an impression of your methodological teaching skills and your adaptability.
  • If you are studying German or have experience in German as a foreign/second language (DaF/DaZ), then please submit an outline of a DaF/DaZ lesson.
  • If not, outline a lesson in one of your teacher training subjects, using an educational approach that involves Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)/language-sensitive teaching.
  • You should make allowance for the usually low level of German language skills (A1/A2) among students in the available placement countries.

If you’d prefer to outline an extra-curricular project instead, then:

  • Your project should ideally include students from different age groups with and without German language skills.
  • Outline your project goals and a rough project schedule.


(INTER-)CULTURAL PROJECT ABOUT GERMANY

Maximum length: one page

For this project outline:
  • You should be able to carry out your (inter)cultural project as an extra-curricular project at your placement school.
  • Choose an aspect of German society, life in Germany, or of Germany’s landscape/history that is likely to interest students.
  • Try to combine several points of view on your chosen topic in order to make diversity in Germany visible.
  • The aim is to convey an authentic up-to-date image of Germany and to arouse interest in life in Germany.
  • The project can culminate in e.g. an exhibition, a presentation or a wall newspaper.  


EDUCATIONAL (OBSERVATION) PROJECT

Maximum length: one page

  • Outline a project that involves observation and analysis of school organization, culture and/or administration that you’d like to carry out at your placement school.
  • The aim of the project is to observe and analyse certain real-life aspects of school in the host country and, if appropriate, compare them to corresponding aspects of German schools.
  • Your project outline should include at least one concrete question grounded in the social sciences.
  • The project should be well planned.
  • Some potential topics are school hierarchies and rituals, communication between faculty and students, use of teaching media, social forms, extent to which classes are taught in students’ native language


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