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Apply Now: New qualification course for teachers with a history of flight and migration

The next round of the Refugee Teachers Program at the University of Potsdam will start next April. Experienced teachers with a history of flight and migration who have a teaching qualification from abroad can apply until February 26, 2023. In four semesters, participants will be prepared linguistically, professionally, pedagogically and interculturally for work in Brandenburg schools. Teachers from Ukraine who are already working at a school in the state of Brandenburg, or who want to teach there in the future, can take part in a two-semester advanced training course with an intensive C1 German course. Individual modules of the Refugee Teachers Program are open to them and have been expanded to include additional seminars tailored to their needs.

The regular Refugee Teachers Program, which runs over four semesters, includes job-related intensive German courses and seminars on educational science. In addition to teaching media skills, the program also professionalizes the handling of migration-related diversity. In addition, the teachers are given the opportunity to study a second subject, which they previously lacked for full recognition of their qualification in Germany. The courses offered are sports, business-work-technology, mathematics, physics, French and art. The credits earned can be recognized in accordance with the Ordinance on the Recognition of Foreign Teacher Qualifications (LQAV).

The supplementary qualification at the University of Potsdam represents the first of a total of three coordinated stages that lead to full recognition as a teacher. This is followed by a one-year practical school qualification by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, which will also conduct an aptitude test or adaptation course in the third stage. Full recognition of the teaching qualification opens up long-term career prospects for graduates and the opportunity to work as regular teachers at schools in Brandenburg.

Before applying for the qualification, an individual counseling interview at the Center for Teacher Education and Educational Research (ZeLB) at the University of Potsdam is recommended. All further information on the application and admission requirements is available at https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/zelb/refugee-teachers-program/bewerbung-1.

Contact: Dr. Anna Aleksandra Wojciechowicz, Project Director of the Refugee Teachers Program at the Center for Teacher Education and Educational Research
Telephone: 0331 977-256018
Email: refteachweluni-potsdamde

Media Information 19-01-2023 / No. 006