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A look back, or what I would do differently if I moved to work in Germany now.

Part 4 (Education in Germany) / Sudo Null IT News Now there will be a story about schools in Germany.
Again, everything that is written below refers to the region of my residence, but most of the information from this post can be extended to the whole of Germany.

Schools

School is required. No options. If your child is sick and you decide to “treat” him at home yourself – at best, you will receive a call from the class teacher with a request to explain why the child was not at school. At worst, you will receive a letter from the school and you will have to personally come and tell the reasons for your bad behavior

. Well, in the worst cases, the police may come to you. Once a colleague flew away on vacation to Ukraine not during school holidays – it’s good that he took a piece of paper from school, which said that the class teacher was informed and that for family reasons the child “needed” to skip school. Why it is good? Because at the customs in Frankfurt, the officer immediately had a question about “skipping school”, because. child of school age and has a residence permit in Germany. I don’t know what would have happened if he didn’t have that paper.
Therefore, if the child is still sick – go to the doctor, get a certificate and take it to the class teacher, or first call, notify, and after recovery, take the certificate. Without this, there will be problems.

Types of schools

Primary school (Grundschule) from “zero” and the so-called “preparatory class for foreigners” to the 4th.
Schools are divided according to the territorial principle and it is almost impossible to go to a school other than “your own”. If for some reason you really don’t like the school you were assigned to, then the only option is to change your place of residence so that the new address is “assigned” to another school.
The elementary school is always located in a separate building and does not overlap with other types of schools.

Compared to a Russian/Soviet elementary school, here it is more like a very large kindergarten preparatory group. A colleague’s daughter graduated from the 3rd grade of the lyceum in her homeland, but here she was assigned to the 2nd (due to not very good German). They were indignant for a very long time about when the training would begin, because. for the most part, children up to the 3rd grade play and write something there, count, but do not really strain.
As I already wrote in the third part, it is customary here to give children childhood, not loading them with knowledge until they are really needed.

According to a friend who lives in Vienna, the situation with the elementary school, which is more like a kindergarten preparatory group, is the same there.
Primary/main school (Hauptschule) – next 5 years, up to and including 9th grade. After the basic school, the student may decide to finish the “school agony” and go to study for a working specialty – his will. But then it is extremely difficult to change your mind, because. the entire educational system is very much tied to grades from the previous stage. I do not want to say that this is impossible, but then you will have to spend money on tutors, attend some courses in order to learn the necessary subject and get the coveted grade.
Parallel to the basic school there is a “real school” (Realschule – I don’t know how else to say it in Russian). You can get there from the 6th grade and study until the 10th. Why is she needed? If you (your child) decide that studying at the main school is too easy and that the child will not get a working profession, but will continue to study further, then this school is just for that. In the basic school, the child will receive only the basic knowledge that is needed, say, as a locksmith or a bus driver. Here, a step is already slightly higher and more “practical” skills are given.
Gymnasium. The coolest school in Germany. You can get there both after the end of the initial one, and after the end of the real one (I have not heard about the options for getting from the main one). “Get” there only by estimates. If a child is an excellent student (here the grading system is mirrored in Russia: one is very good, 5 is terribly bad), if he shows himself actively, participates in school life, the door to the gymnasium is open for him. Otherwise, you will have to hire tutors and pull up grades to units in all subjects. There is no other way out.
If a child decides to go to a gymnasium after a real school, then even with only a few, it is not yet a fact that he will get there. You need to “advertise” yourself – write a special article about yourself, show your strengths, prove that you are worthy to study at the gymnasium (the eldest son will be writing this just the other day).

In the last, 13th (in some states in the 12th) grade, students prepare for admission to a university (gymnasium, in fact, the only way for a child to a university) write an examination paper (Abitur). Its protection and receipt – in fact, is equated to a matriculation certificate, and this, one might say, is the main (often unattainable) goal of a student.

On the whole, the problems of this whole system also follow:

the child simply does not have the necessary knowledge; they are not given in a general school
The decision about which school to go to after completing primary has to be made so early that few people can consciously make it. Which of the readers of Habr can say that already in the 4th grade he definitely decided to enter the university?
in comparison with Russian education, only the gymnasium really falls short of it. On the one hand, it’s good when a person’s brain is not clogged with mathematical analysis if he decides to become a milling machine. But on the other hand, how can such a decision be made in 10 years?

For 90,025 children of displaced persons/immigrants/came for temporary work, this is even more problematic, because or the child may completely lose interest in learning, because. he is simply bored, or if the family returns after a few years, then such a child will be a leader in the ranks of those lagging behind in the Russian education system

Now, as usual – what would I do differently :

Another date for moving to Germany

If I had known all this about the German school system in advance, and especially one more feature – “confirmation of education received abroad”, I would have moved the family here six months later, or all moved together a year later.
The reason is that by the time he entered Germany, the elder had completed half of the 11th grade of a Russian school. Here, because main school ends at 9th, the real one in the 11-12th, and the gymnasium even longer – in the 13th, then its 10.5 classes (in their understanding) were recognized as 9 local. They did not make concessions, saying that he had almost 11. Also, they didn’t even begin to test it for the knowledge that they get here at the end of the real one – they tested it only for what they teach in the main thing. As a result, he was assigned to the 9th grade! We can say that on the one hand, a plus – he will learn German, but by some incredible miracle, after attending integration courses for foreign teenagers (during the year after his arrival), he not only received B1 without problems – he was told that his level language proficiency – at least C1, but because the school does not test for this level – he will receive a certificate only at B1.
Those. the teenager has already been “sitting” for a year, bored, in the 9th grade of the basic school, having received absolutely no knowledge. Now he is in the 10th real school, but so far what he is given has not yet reached the level of the knowledge that he received in the Russian school.

So the advice to families with teenage children is to wait until your children finish school, all 11 grades. Unless you are sure that your child is 100% unwilling to enter a German university in the future. Or leave when the baby finishes 9school classes, because if you wait until the end of the 11th, most likely, the child will be already over 18. In this case, he will simply not be allowed into Germany, because. he is already an adult and will not pass on family reunification (if you are traveling for work, and not as a late migrant).

On this, perhaps, I finish with this series of articles about Germany. If you have any questions or suggestions about writing a sequel – let me know – let’s see what we can do with you together.

Teachers talk about working in schools – Daily 9 Poster0001

The Russian education system is often criticized, but nevertheless, the younger generation still continues to master the profession of a teacher. Afisha Daily talked to young teachers about why they go to schools, what difficulties they face and what they want to change in the existing system.

Anna, 26 years old

Rostov-on-Don

I have been teaching at the lyceum for three years, but I have a total teaching experience of five years. As a child, like many others, I dreamed of becoming a teacher. Over time, this passed, but in the 11th grade, when it was self-government day, I was put on first graders. This was the starting point, and I literally fell in love with the profession in one day.

Jobs are easy to find now, everyone needs teachers because few people want to teach at school.

Coming to school after university, you find yourself in another world. At the university, we are not given exactly the knowledge that can really be useful in practice. Of course, over time, you gain experience and begin to understand how to properly communicate with children and how to behave with parents, which is also important. Therefore, it would be cool if young teachers had, for example, some kind of mentor.

When I first arrived, they gave me first class. These were difficult children: most of them did not go to kindergarten, there were also several children with developmental disabilities. Therefore, at first I was completely at a loss. Plus, parents do not accept young teachers at all. Many of them were older than me, so it turned out to be difficult to find a common language with them: they began to bend their line, impose their opinion, teach me how to do my job better.

Once the children had a fight, and there was an instigator in the fight. I called his parents to tell him that the child brings others into conflict. And in response I received a flurry of negativity – they say, it’s my fault, I have to solve these problems myself, why do I even call about this, and since this happened in my presence, then I’m an incompetent teacher. But over time, I learned to cope with such situations and parents.

There are a lot of things to change in our education system. It is clear that there are advanced schools, but in general there should be a single educational system throughout the country. So that children do not have problems when moving to another school or other textbooks. Even in Russia there is no continuity between the levels: kindergarten, junior school, high school. Each program has a different name for the same terms, different explanations for the same processes. It seems to me that this makes life very difficult for children. It is also time for us to start taking into account the peculiarities of the time and stop ignoring the fact that we live in the age of technology. Understand that it is not normal to scold children for phones. It’s time to make sure that phones occupy some part of the educational process.

When we enter the profession, everything appears in iridescent hues. Children listen, I give them knowledge, everyone is interested, they raise their hands and so on. In fact, I am inundated with documentation and notebooks. Plus, each child has his own character and each one needs to find an approach – far from everyone succeeds in this, so many young teachers are disappointed and leave.

I wouldn’t want to work at school all my life, a few more years at the most. It’s very hard.

I communicate with the older generation, and they all say to the young teachers: “Girls, what have you forgotten here?”

I cannot say that everything is bad and this profession has no future. It is there, but too much needs to be changed.

Katya, 22 years old

Ryazan

Since my childhood I worked with children in camps, I really liked it, but I never planned to become a teacher. Initially, I generally entered a technical specialty, but I realized that it was not for me, and I wanted to study English. We have a good language university in the city, there were two directions to choose from: a translator and pedagogical activity. I thought that the second direction might suit me, because I love English and I am comfortable working with children.

I started working at school in September 2020. It happened by accident: my friend worked in a rural school, from which all the English teachers quit abruptly. And they called me, they offered good conditions. I decided that this was such an interesting experience that I could remember in my old age as a bad dream, and agreed. The school is located in the village, but it is quite large. I thought that it would be some kind of small wooden building with five classrooms, but this is really a modern and large school, where children come from all nearby villages. I teach 6th, 7th and 8th grades.

At first it was very difficult, because I came on September 1, and they immediately told me: “That’s it, go to class.” It seemed to me that I was generally super-prepared, but I have been working with children for so long and I understand them so well. But in reality, everything turned out to be different. Firstly, the children had very poor knowledge, because their teachers were constantly changing. Secondly, grades 6-7 are the most difficult age, when they are no longer children, but not yet adults. They are impulsive, they want to challenge everything, to feel freedom.

Initially, I dreamed of being an advanced teacher, I had many illusions and ideas about how to build an ideal system in which both you and children would be comfortable living. But very quickly the understanding came that I was already in a system that I alone could not change, and the only thing left was to adapt to it. For example, when I arrived, I tried not to use any punishments at all: I never screamed, I didn’t give bad marks for behavior, and so on. But the children, who were used to it differently, perceived my position as a weakness.

At the same time, it became clear that the education we are given at the university is very much at odds with reality. We study many spatial disciplines, lofty pedagogical principles, methodology, planning ideal lessons according to all criteria. And in the end, you come and understand that your ideal lesson is worth nothing, because you simply cannot make the children listen to you , and this is very sad. At first, I cried a lot because of this, because it was insulting. Moreover, the phrase “the children do not listen to me” is perceived as something frivolous – they say, oh, the children are making noise, they cannot calm down. In fact, disobedience is when you ask to stand up, and they tell you: “No, I’m not going to do anything.”

All teachers have terrible days, it’s hard to predict. Every morning I go to work with absolute ignorance of how the day will go. Sometimes suddenly everything goes very easily, and sometimes it’s just a catastrophe, chaos that cannot be pacified and calmed down.

Our entire education system is very outdated, and this problem begins with teachers. At first, we are not particularly taught how to teach children correctly, and then the educational process, in which everything must be strictly according to the norms, finishes off. Most textbooks are designed to ensure that you eventually pass the exam, but passing the exam does not at all testify to your knowledge. And it turns out that reality is very different from what is on paper. Children cheat everything from the GDZ, get fives, then they go further with these fives, cheat again at the university, get a good diploma, and then go out into the world, and it turns out that there is no for GDZ life.

Of course, I do not regret that I went to a pedagogical specialty, but only because I have the opportunity to work as a tutor. School is a place for altruism, where you earn good karma for yourself.

Julia (name changed), 30 years old

Omsk

I have been working as a teacher of literature and Russian for seven years now. I didn’t want to be a teacher at all. My grandmother taught physics and I knew it was hard work. And she never experienced the pleasure of communicating with children, on the contrary, she was always a closed person. But when I studied at the philological faculty, we had a teaching practice. I went to school, where I was extremely lucky with the curator: she impressed me with her approach to teaching, she had unusual forms of work, she constantly remained in contact with the children. I liked talking with students, and I thought it was worth trying to work. I decided that if I didn’t enter, then I would leave after the first quarter. But somehow it dragged on.

At first it was difficult with children, I was given the 5th grade – it is always more difficult with them than with teenagers. Because I don’t tend to babysit students, I don’t like repeating everything 10 times, but it is necessary for fifth graders because they are small. Now I’m used to it, of course, but at the beginning there were cases when I was very upset or angry.

Once I gave a small independent paper to the children for 10 minutes at the beginning of the lesson. And all the children wrote, but one girl did not. I tell her: “Come on, turn it in, the whole class is waiting for you. ” Now, if I encounter such a situation, I ask the student to speed up and finish writing. And in the first year of my work, I didn’t understand a lot, so when the girl handed over the work to me, I threw it away in front of her. The girl was very upset, which is quite natural, she complained to her parents. Then I apologized to her and learned a lesson for myself.

I have a difficult relationship with my colleagues. I don’t tend to be in constant contact with everyone. I try to maintain corporate relations, this is my principled position. Some people accept it, some don’t, but I don’t care.

I think that the approach to education in Russia has a dual nature. On the one hand, we kind of want to develop individuals who have knowledge of the world and the necessary life experience. And teachers really try to do it. But on the other hand, the system puts a lot of emphasis on preparing for exams, which do not cover the entire body of knowledge. As a result, the teacher is faced with a choice: either I intensively prepare children for tests, or develop them as individuals . That is, we teach people to use the tools of their mind so that they can reason, argue their position, express thoughts, but at the same time, an essay in the Russian language of the Unified State Examination is work according to a clear plan and template. And if the child moves away from him and starts to reason the way he wants, then he simply will not pass the exam. I would like to teach children to perceive literary texts in the context of reality, analyze, discuss them, but then they will not remember what they gave Natasha Rostova for a birthday.

I have never had optimistic expectations about the profession. I understood that I was going into a rather toxic environment, where there are many irrelevant rules that continue to exist. I’m talking about disciplinary things.

For example, I don’t like it when a correction is reduced as a mistake, when a person is not given the opportunity to correct a mark, I am also embarrassed when children are shamed for loose hair and appearance.

I was prepared for things to be difficult. But at school, some positive aspects of the profession were revealed to me. I realized that most children are adequate, capable of self-development, empathy, they want to establish contact with you. It seemed to me that the teacher in the children’s heads is rather an evil being who makes them work. But at school, I realized that children do not always perceive a teacher as a villain.

Sometimes I give lessons that are not related to the program, but on topics that children are interested in discussing: we argue about the need for gender roles, sex education in schools, and so on. Such lessons are just needed in order to develop the ability to speak, formulate positions and prove one’s point of view.

Often with tenth graders, I practice such a thing that children do an analysis of the work using informal types of work. One group of guys even made a channel where they talk about works using minecraft.

To be honest, I don’t know how much longer I can work at the school.