Job shadowing 

Bremen

 

2^nd Day / Tuesday

8:00 – 11:15 Visit to school I 

English teaching in Germany is very communicative. There’s no great focus in communication as there is in Spain. Students and teaching devote much of the time to speak and it is no so important if the student are making mistakes but if the message is getting across. The number of students in the class is about 20 and there is plenty of space in the class for students to move around. 

Students are not shy to participate orally, they speak loud enough and all of them take part in the discussion. 

In the German educative system, students don’t have homework. Students have some hours devoted to the so called “Wochenplan”. The students distribute themselves the semanal tasks.

11:30 – 12:55 Get together: Feedback and first impressions

Free time

We’ve been discussing about the different approaches when teaching foreign languages and about the the cost of academic books in Spain. German teaching think the policy regarding students’ book is more social in Germany because they have books where students do not have blanks to write or and so on. Moreover, blank filling is not popular in Germany. Books contain more open questions where students have to express themselves in the foreign language.