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LastName	FirstName	Address	City	State	Zip	PhoneNumber
ABRAHAM	ANASTASIA	9854 OAKDALE WOODS CT	VIENNA	VA	22181	(703) 314-2857
AL KHAIRI	ESRAA	8202 BUCKNELL DR	VIENNA	VA	22180	(703) 876-6292
APPLETREE II		712 TAPAWINGO RD. SW	VIENNA	VA	22180	(703) 281-2626
AZADI	MASOMEH	10249 LEESBURG PIKE	VIENNA	VA	22182	(703) 430-0222
BURKE	LISA MARIE	1407 ROSS DR. SW.	VIENNA	VA	22180	(703) 560-2458
CHEEMA	RUBINA YOUSAF	1417 STANBRIDGE PL.	VIENNA	VA	22182	(703) 356-1427
CUNJE	MALINI	2828 CEDAR LN.	VIENNA	VA	22180	(703) 573-8232
DARAB	RAZIA A	1018 COTTAGE ST.	VIENNA	VA	22180	(703) 255-1111
FUENTES	GLORIA	8315 COTTAGE ST	VIENNA	VA	22180	(703) 698-1728
HUNTER MILL COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, INC.		2021 HUNTER MILL RD.	VIENNA	VA	22181	(703) 281-4422
JANECZEK	CHRISTINE	10513 HUNTING CREST LN	VIENNA	VA	22182	(703) 268-5721
KINDERCARE LEARNING CENTER #765		437 KNOLL ST. NW	VIENNA	VA	22180	(703) 938-7040
MCKEW	SHARON	9913 BRIGHTLEA DR.	VIENNA	VA	22181	(703) 255-2011
MIKAILOGLU	SULTAN SUZI	2516 GLENGYLE DR	VIENNA	VA	22181	(703) 281-5620
MUFTI	ABIDA	2201 HUNTER MILL RD.	VIENNA	VA	22181	(703) 281-7860
NOSHAD	ZARI	1414 CLAVES CT	VIENNA	VA	22182	(703) 255-7277
POOVATANA	TANIDA LEENA	1800 CLOVER MEADOW DR.	VIENNA	VA	22182	(703) 255-5145
QUIROZ PENA	YESSICA	2528 CHAIN BRIDGE RD #T2	VIENNA	VA	22181	(571) 215-0305
RANA	BARUNA	1909 HULL RD	VIENNA	VA	22182	(703) 847-1986
SAINI	KULWANT	2801 GROVEMORE LN.	VIENNA	VA	22180	(703) 573-2549
SHAHBAZI	AFSANEH	608 THELMA CIR SW	VIENNA	VA	22180	(202) 297-2513
ZAPATA	MARIA	305 PLUM ST SW	VIENNA	VA	22180	(703) 319-7692

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Personal experience: my child is studying in Austria

Education systems in different countries can be very different from each other. But there is no country in the world where children do not go to kindergarten or school. “O!” I decided to find out how educational institutions for preschoolers and younger students around the world are arranged, and the first stop on our trip around the world was Austria. More precisely, the capital of Austria is Vienna, where the mother of two children, Daria Deribas, lives.

Daria Deribas

How kindergarten works

My youngest daughter is 5 years old. Over the past three years, we have changed several different kindergartens, but now she goes to a private Catholic kindergarten in Vienna. Here we have a mixed-age group in which children aged 3 to 6 study. In total, there are 6 such groups in the kindergarten, each of which has about 25 people. Children over 6 years old are already going to school. At first, the decision to make groups of different ages seemed very strange to me, I thought it would be better if all the guys in the group were of the same year of birth. And now I see that it has a positive effect on my daughter. Thanks to this system, younger children follow the older ones in development, and the older ones can take patronage over the younger ones, which develops in them positive human qualities, patience and kindness, as a result, children develop in many ways, learn from each other, focusing not strictly on age, but on personal qualities of each child.

Our kindergarten opens at 7:00, but you can bring your child up to 9:00. Children are all picked up at different times, some after lunch at 13:00, and I at 17:00. In the garden, the children study, walk, relax and eat. For lunch, by the way, soup is far from always, and meat dishes on the menu can be found only 2-3 times a week, and not at all every day, as we are used to. The menu is very varied, a lot of fruits, vegetables, cheeses, and on the day when there is no soup, they give dessert.

Teachers in Austria are very different in age, even young people from the senior school, to which the kindergarten is attached, come to us for internships. Teachers can walk in both skirts and jeans, someone has the most fashionable hairstyles, someone has tattoos. Our kindergarten is Catholic, but proclaims freedom of choice in clothing and appearance.

Why children do not have daytime sleep

At first I struggled with the fact that there was no daytime sleep in the kindergarten, I went to the director, asked, explained that we needed to sleep. He nodded reassuringly and told me: “We know, we already had people as special as you, from China.” True, there is a kind of quiet hour, when in a large room similar to an assembly hall, children are offered, if desired, to rest a little on mattresses that lie directly on the floor.

The parents here are very relaxed, minding their own business. At 19:00-19:30 the children are already in their beds, and moms and dads have a whole evening to be together. Early in the morning, the children are raised and taken to the garden, and since there has been no daytime sleep since the age of 3, they get so tired during the day that by 19:00 they themselves no longer mind going to bed.

Why snot is not scary

What is quite strange for Russian mothers is that snot, cough and other cold manifestations are not considered contraindications to visiting the kindergarten. Even with a temperature of 37.5, a child will be accepted if you do not tell about it yourself. This is very easy to deal with here. at the end of the day they will simply say that, probably, the child is unwell and he was capricious. Of course, if the baby has a fever, the parents will be called and offered to pick him up. For emergencies, there is a first-aid kit in the garden, but there is no full-time nurse or doctor. The fact is that in Vienna everything is very close to each other and the passage of emergency services around the city is not difficult. I think that if something happens, the ambulance will arrive at the kindergarten so quickly that the teacher will not even have time to open this first-aid kit.

How the learning process goes

The essential difference between Austrian gardens and Russian gardens is that there is no exact schedule of classes. One type of activity, whether it’s drawing or music, flows smoothly into another, classes can also be interchanged and adjusted to a specific day if someone has a birthday or a group goes on an excursion to a museum. Everything is rather vague in terms of time, and at the forefront is a personal approach to the child. Our kindergarten is based on the Montessori system. A shy toddler, for example, may be asked to beat the drums during a music class to learn how to express their emotions in this way. In general, we, parents, practically do not know what and how is happening inside. We know that there is a speech therapist and a psychologist in the kindergarten, but they help only those who need it and strictly on an individual basis, not in groups.

Our teacher, in addition to the main classes, leads gymnastics in the group. There is a special group in the garden for those who want to learn English additionally, they take it from the age of 4. And another separate group for those who are not native German speakers, and we have several such children from different countries.

What the children do in the classroom

In the kindergarten, the children do a lot of creative work: they draw, sculpt, make handicrafts from leaves and chestnuts, work with fabrics and wood. But such work is never given to us at home. I think if this ever happens, freedom-loving Austrian parents will raise a real revolution.

We also have a huge number of excursions. True, moms and dads are not taken to them. On the streets of Vienna, you can often see flocks of very young children who importantly pace behind their teacher. Each of them has their own backpack. Before, it seemed to me that these were the machinations of marketing specialists, well, why does a two-three-year-old girl need her own backpack? Especially since it’s so tiny. But it turned out that this teaches kids to be independent, because on a trip or on an excursion they collect these backpacks themselves, control the whole process!

Well, the biggest disappointment for mothers from Russia is the reporting concerts. In Austria, children have freedom of action, if you don’t want to sing – don’t sing, if you don’t want to recite poetry – well, stand calmly on the sidelines, the main thing is that there is no stress. So all the amateur gardening is at a very low level. There are no concerts like in Russia here. But children are the same as their parents: independent and completely relaxed. And that’s what I really like about them.

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Kindergarten teachers adapt to your child: he is in a diaper – they will change it, with a dummy – they will not lose it

In Austria, mothers are most often born after 30 years of age. First, women study, build careers and travel the world. And then they give birth, mostly – the weather. If earlier families with one child were popular, now they are with three or more. Irina Kostenko from Vienna, mother of Misha, Kristina and Ivan, told Promam about childbirth, motherhood, vaccination, kindergartens and schools.

About childbirth in Austria

Home births are very rare. Perhaps this is due to the fact that in maternity hospitals you will be offered any options for having children: in water (bath, shower), on a bed, standing or sitting. They are ready for any wishes of the woman in labor. If a doctor is present in addition to the midwife, then something is wrong with the process.

Pair births are already the norm. Maternity wards are no different from ordinary ones: no sterility. My husband was present at the birth – in what he arrived, he was: no bathrobes, masks and shoe covers.

Getting ready for the maternity hospital takes two minutes: documents and phone charger. Oh yes, slippers and a toothbrush. All! What is necessary for mother and newborn is provided by the maternity hospital. The baby needs clothes only for discharge.

About the decree

Maternity leave lasts three years. But mothers mostly return to work within a year. Not full-time, but 20-22 hours a week, this is the so-called part-time job. I also met dads who are on parental leave.

Austrian law offers different schemes for joint decrees. For example, 12 + 2: 12 months mom with a child and two months – dad.

Many women combine motherhood and work. If the position does not allow part-time employment, then they turn to student nannies. Nobody is looking for a teacher or a woman with a medical education.

About medicine

Medicine in Austria is different from Ukrainian. Firstly, medical insurance exists and works here. Secondly, doctors do not prescribe lists of drugs, do not prescribe antibiotics without test results, and viruses are not treated at all. It is impossible to call a doctor at home – there is simply no such service. A false call for an ambulance will cost you 500 euros (fine). You will also have to get used to the queues at the front desk. After discharge from the maternity hospital, the pediatrician will not come for an examination, you and your newborn go to an appointment on the fifth or seventh day of the baby’s life.

About vaccinations, co-sleeping and social benefits

Vaccinations are not done at the maternity hospital, only vitamin K is given. Vaccination starts from the second month of a child’s life. There are mandatory and recommended vaccinations. In Austria, there are parents who do not vaccinate their children at all, and this does not create problems when accepting a child to kindergarten or school. Pediatricians and society “do not climb” into education if this does not pose a threat to the baby.

Parents themselves choose whether to practice co-sleeping or separate, artificial or natural feeding. Experts recommend introducing the first complementary foods at six months. But, again, they only recommend it, it all depends on the child – whether he is interested in adult food or not.

What is mandatory is the pediatrician’s examination schedule. The pass is fraught with a partial refund of the allowance paid at the birth of the child. And this is a considerable amount – 12,000 euros. The family also receives financial assistance for childcare, about 170 euros per month. The maximum payment period is up to 24 years, provided that the child is studying.

About Kindergarten

In Austria, attendance at the kindergarten is obligatory only in the last year before school, and during this period there will definitely be a place in the kindergarten. Preschool education (if you can call it a place where children just play, learn to make friends, take care of themselves, help the younger ones) is represented by gardens and “day moms”. The latter are mothers who have their own children, but they officially take a few more children of the same age as her, thus forming a mini-group. They play with them and go for walks, feed them and put them to bed. It is something between a garden and a house.

There are both private and public gardens in Vienna. There are no free gardens. But there is a very strong social support. Part of the cost of the garden is paid by the state, depending on the income and the number of people working in the family.

Viennese gardens are radically different from gardens in Kyiv. Let’s start with the fact that there are no separate buildings for the garden. They are located on the first floors of office or residential buildings. And there are only two age groups: from one to three years and from three to six years. Daytime sleep is required only in the younger group. There are no beds in the gardens: children sleep on mats in the gym or in a dedicated group.

Parents bring bed linen and blankets from home and take them home to wash. Hot food only for lunch, for breakfast and afternoon snack vegetables and fruits, spreaded bread (mostly cottage cheese with herbs), juice and water. No one takes children outside every day, as not all gardens have their own yard.

On the other hand, three educators per group work with the kids, your child can sleep in the arms of one. Educators adapt to the child: he is in a diaper – they will change it, with a dummy – they will not lose it. When parents decide it’s time to wean one or the other, there will be the same rules in the garden as at home. No one forces a child to eat “nasty” food, and no one will punish him because he does not want to sleep.

Extra classes are also different. In our garden, for example, there are tom-toms and motor-pedagogy. No math, reading or English. Children are taken almost every week on excursions to the fire department or the police station, to the theater or radio station, to visit the local television, to the zoo or castle.

About the school

The school is accepted from the age of six (full) years. Based on the results of the interview, the child is either taken to the first grade or offered a preparatory one. At the interview, the main criterion is physical development, and knowledge and skills are secondary. In classes of 24-26 students. Parents do not choose teachers. Of course, you can communicate your wishes to the director – no one forbids this.

There are private and public schools. In private schools, registration is at least two years in advance, in public schools – in a year. Education in a private school costs from 160 to 180 euros per month. In public and private schools paid food and after-school, but in public the price depends on the family income. It is difficult to get into a good public school if the child does not live in the same area where the school is located, while private schools are accepted regardless of registration.

The training program is the same, designed for 10 months a year – from September to June. The first day of training is not the first day, but the first Monday of September. And there is no “last call”, but there is a Summer Festival in mid-June.

The main four lessons a day and twice a week the fifth lesson is religion. In Austria, the child is required to attend religion classes. Additional lessons (playing a musical instrument, sports, chess, work) – at the request of the student and parents.

The first foreign language taught at school is English: one lesson per week during all four years of elementary school. After the lessons – lunch and an after-school, where the children do their homework for an hour. So they don’t bring books and notebooks home. And one more remarkable fact: parents are forbidden to correct mistakes. If the child does them, then the material is not learned, and the teacher pays more attention to this topic.

Once a week the students do their homework with the teacher at school, and on Wednesdays they are not given anything at all. On this day, those who go on an after-school, go on excursions to museums or fly kites in parks, and in June visit swimming pools. Austrian children in elementary school learn to acquire knowledge on their own and love this process.

Kindergarten teacher in Vienna? Easily? —nwm.at

Author: Editorial staff

Publication date: 06/01/2014

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“College education in the specialty “kindergarten teacher”. Work contract for five years with the possibility of working in a kindergarten in Vienna.
Here’s an ad I saw two days before applying to college. I was very surprised by his text. Later I learned that in all local and central newspapers there was a powerful advertisement of a social nature about recruitment to this educational institution. What is so amazing, you ask? Those students who successfully passed the entrance exam receive a work permit in Austria and an agreement with the city for five years, a decent salary and paid vacation. Fiction!

I decided to check and called the hotline. I was explained in detail that the exam is very difficult. However, they assured me that teachers for kindergartens, afterschools and children’s educational centers are in great demand in Austria.
I come to the Open Day. Social workers, lawyers, labor and financial consultants of city services are ready to answer questions from curious visitors. Those who were confident in themselves could immediately go directly to the college administration and submit an application and documents.
Submitted documents. They didn’t take it. They said, “What if you change your mind? Here is a leaflet, it says when to come. Do not forget to take all documents, resume, motivation letter, black pen. A passport was not required. Already interesting.
Morning. Thursday. 7:30. I’m in place, in the third stream. Competition – 6 people per place. Exactly at 7:31 a roll call was held and divided into groups. There were 20 people in my group. Strange: age from 18 to 57 years. Lots of migrants.
7:45. Two supervisors were assigned to each group – second-year students, who motivate us, tell us what awaits us and ask us not to worry, note that future students should not be competitors, but friends, explain that the exam will consist of five mini-exams on 50 minutes.
8:00 am. Music. Take two teachers. One sits and writes something, the other accompanies at the choice of the examiner. “Do you want me to play the guitar, flute or piano?” she asks. At the beginning of the exam – gymnastics and “chanting” for 15 minutes. “Ready? Well, well done! Who brought the sheet music for children’s songs? Let’s see what you have there. So let’s get started!” And they bleated, and meowed, and lowed, and even grunted. In general, everyone sang as best they could. The examiners tested the rhythm, musical literacy, hearing. Most of all I liked the test of the sense of rhythm: we walk in a circle, tapping the rhythm with our hands at a fast and slow pace. Two rhythms at the same time. It is not simple! The main thing is not to get lost.
9:00 am. Sport. Many fail here. Thanks to the Soviet school, dear parents, the court and the active image of student life for the fact that I passed this task with honor! So, run 15 minutes in the gym non-stop. It is necessary to do 21 circles (an ordinary school gym), as many as possible. I don’t understand anything: after the seventh round, the people blush, run out of breath. And then I remember that there are so many green parks in Vienna, where slender Austrians in super-practical sportswear run, that all kinds of sports marathons are constantly held here for the rights of “such and such” and “in honor of such and such.” Then it was necessary to throw the ball against the wall five times and catch it, show five different types of jumping rope, go through an obstacle course for a while, climb over the Swedish wall twice, supposedly saving the child and jumping from the first floor. This exercise helps to bring out the fear of heights.
10:00 am. German. We are writing an essay “Why do so few men choose the profession of a child educator? “Pros and cons”. Every year, more and more fathers take parental leave, get the profession of an obstetrician-gynecologist, become “adoptive dads”, teachers, social workers. The salary is good for the social sector, additional holidays, allowances, pension. The idea is clear – public opinion about the lack of prestige of the choice of “women’s professions” must be changed. Everything is simple. You just need to meet the time and do not talk to anyone.
11:00 am. Interview. Everything is the same as when applying for a job. There is only one “but”. They give you photos and ask you to choose one of them, and then justify your opinion. I got a picture of the products. I immediately remembered the powerful advertising of all the media and social services about healthy eating. It worked! I remembered that on the bulletin board at school, each parent voluntarily enters the name of his child into the “Healthy Eating” (“Gesunde Jause”) list, and once a week, the student, in accordance with the list, brings vegetables, fruits, berries to the whole class. She talked about how my own children kept a notebook issued at school, where sports activities, a walk in the fresh air, a healthy diet, refusal of sweets and soda, one liter of water drunk daily, ten hours of sleep, etc. were ticked off daily.
12:00. Communicative (psychological) exam. Most considered it the easiest, as they laughed a lot and completely relaxed. It intuitively seemed to me that this would be the most difficult part of the whole day. I had to pay close attention to the language of gestures and body movements, constantly speak last, and not first, and not ask countless questions “Why?”. Intuition did not disappoint.
This exam had the most examiners. Not two, as everywhere else, but six people. And everyone had in their hands not just a blank sheet of paper with a pen, but a whole scale of 4 graphs. There may have been a hidden video camera or sound recording. First, they asked to move two tables and began to watch who would move and who would watch what was happening. Then it was necessary to take a chair and sit in a circle. Everything was important: who, where, how they did it, where their hands were at that time, who took off their shoes and sat barefoot, and who did not. Then they were asked to choose pictures published by a charitable organization and telling about the problems of our society. Under each picture was an aphorism.
Attention! Listen to yourself, what are you saying? Why are you saying this if they will immediately forget about you as soon as you leave the exam! They won’t even remember your name! What for? Your task is to pass the exam with a positive mark. Read how, in my opinion, you should not answer this exam. Some managed to tell in one minute, pulling out the picture “Love”, about unhappy love, about their tattoos and why they stretch all over the arm and back.
I was one of the last to answer, and when I looked at the floor, I was surprised how many joyful and bright pictures of nature and children were left lying on the floor. We are going to be educators! And all these pictures are not in demand yet? To what extent do the people sitting next to me sincerely want to work in this specialty? After all, it just seems that becoming a kindergarten teacher is so easy! I decided to pull out a picture with a black, poorly dressed boy of six years old, where it was written that it was necessary to educate with love. As I spoke, the cheerful faces of the examiners turned serious. In my story, I focused on what I consider to be exemplary those countries where all children of foreigners from the age of five, regardless of the status of their parents, receive a place in a kindergarten and the right to free language courses, as well as attention and respect from teachers on an equal footing with everyone. Everyone nodded quietly and felt a little uncomfortable. Once again I was convinced that it’s not worth returning everyone present to reality, but you need to become funny and stupid, well, at least for a while. Then we were all given a rope and asked to tie a knot without letting go of our hands. Team spirit, so to speak, test and ingenuity! Everyone was so good and cheerful that it seemed to me as if I myself were in a kindergarten. Finally, we were all offered a role-playing game “parent and child”, “teacher and child”.
13:00. The last test is drawing (creativity). Each is given a white sheet of A4 format and a pencil. Everyone has something on the table. You have to draw it correctly and come up with a drawing. It can be a nail, a paper clip, a screw, a nut.
14:00. The exam is over. The results are promised to be sent by mail in three weeks. They recommend taking another important exam in a month in one of the pools in Vienna. This exam is very “simple”: tell 15 rules of behavior on the water, jump from a meter-high platform into the water and swim for 15 minutes in any style.
I leave the exam, as I came – happy and inspired. Thanks to my Moscow schools, strict teachers, harsh classes in all weather conditions. Let Russian teachers be proud of our preparation and borrow something good and innovative for their European students! These entrance exams can be passed by any Russian ninth-grader, if he believes in himself, in his strength. There are many opinions about the quality of Russian or Western education. Let me just say one thing (from my personal experience of organizing children’s events in Vienna): Austrian colleagues with enthusiasm and amazement are trying to adopt the “Soviet school”, the Russian methodology for working with children of preschool and school age.