Clichés

Of course, you will also have to read books in your studies, and yes, the readings are also discussed in the seminars. How many books you read, however, you can decide a little bit, in many seminars you have choices. In the basic modules you don't have so many choices yet, here especially some scientific texts have to be read. Language history or grammar, for example, are compulsory! There are many good lecturers at the department, so even these lectures and seminars can be exciting and interesting. Don't be fooled with grammar   ; if you were good at grammar in school, it doesn't mean that you can easily master the seminar. What you learn here goes far beyond school grammar. In the focus modules, you can then choose whether you want to attend seminars in literary studies and choose seminars here in which you   deal in depth with one or more readings. Alternatively, you can choose to focus on linguistics. Here, of course, you also have to read, but not classical literature.

If you choose to study German as a teaching profession, you will attend the same courses as the German Studies Bachelor's/German Studies Master's students.

The study program is divided into a scientific and a didactic part. The academic courses are the same as for the German studies. Yes, of course you don't have to take as many courses here at as you do in a pure German studies program. On the other hand, studies two subjects plus the so-called core studies, i.e. three subjects. In the core studies, only pedagogical and social science content is taught, e.g. educational psychology or school development. The rumor that student teachers get easier exams in the subject-specific courses is not true! You write the same exams or term papers as the German studies students. In addition to the academic courses, you will also attend seminars on German didactics. Here you will learn then how to convey the content of German lessons to students.

"German ONLY for teachers" is therefore just as easy or just as difficult as a Bachelor's degree program.

Who doesn't know it from their own school days? Teachers were usually rather unpleasant pests who only wanted to hear what they had learned by heart. Hardly any student can imagine that their teachers do anything else in their free time than correct or think up new nastiness. After twelve years, when the spook is finally over, surely no one would voluntarily consider becoming a teacher? Finally, the world is open to you and you can do whatever you want. Australia, New Zealand, a voluntary social year, hanging out with your parents or even studying. Well, let's assume that, contrary to expectations, your grades are bad. Then it's clear that studying to become a teacher is the least evil (compared to an apprenticeship, etc.). Often enough you hear sentences like: "Don't waste your good average with a teaching degree". Well, then after a year of hanging out and backpacker life, the choice probably falls on the teaching profession. But where? Universities are now a dime a dozen. One that stands out because of its teacher training program is the University of Kassel. It offers neither law nor medicine, but it does offer a teaching degree. And it offers four of them. From L1 to L4, everything is there. If you are now wondering what the hell this L1 is supposed to be, then let me tell you that it is best not to remember it at all. L1 are namely the so-called "Elementary School Moms" (the name says it all here). A course of studies, which consists estimated to 90% of tinkering male and female students, who (exaggeratedly represented) make their time more bearable by gossip games or mandalas. With a completed degree, they can then see themselves as better educators and eke out an existence as primary school teachers. Less prestige and, above all, less money than the other teacher training programs are the reward for six semesters of playing and laughing. Good, then L1 is probably out of the question. How about L2? Students who study teaching at L2 can no longer have all their cups in the cupboard. After all, they are the ones who will have to stand in front of a rowdy secondary school class in the future and count every day until they retire. Studying as an L2er is a slimmed-down version of studying as an L3 and involves less academic work. This means that as an L2er, you won't even be admired by the other teacher education majors. What about the L3s? If you study teaching at L3, you spend the rest of your life at the Gymnasium. It's really the same with L3s as it is with the rest of the teaching degree programs: They are just lazy, hardly have to learn anything and have only vacations already in their studies. While medical students spend their entire studies studying, student teachers sit in the sun with a coffee and a good book. Last but not least, there are the L4s, who really don't need much attention. After all, they are stranded people who didn't make it in their previous job and now think they can do something with a teaching degree.

How things really are with the (mostly) admission-restricted course of studies "Lehramt", you will be able to find out on this website and at the latest during your studies. Do not give so much on comments and opinions of people, with whom it did not suffice for a teaching profession study. In this short article you will deliberately not find answers to questions like: Are these prejudices true? Ultimately, it is your studies and only you can find out to what extent the listed clichés really correspond to reality.

You're right in the morning, free in the afternoon and plenty of vacation time. Perhaps this cliché seems tempting to some prospective students. If you're not that good at math and science, you could study German. Hardly any teachers have the afternoons off. Lesson preparation, conferences, in-service training, parent meetings, correcting papers, etc. fill the afternoons and even some weekends. In fact, teachers are one of the professions where many people suffer from burnout or depression. But of course there are many more teachers who enjoy teaching and preparing lessons, who love their job. In addition, the stressful phases are compensated for by the fact that you have more vacation days than in most other professions. During the internship semester, which must be completed in the third or fourth semester, most students certainly recognize whether the chosen course of study really suits them.