Tuesday 30th August

Job shadowing  

Bremen

 Tuesday, 30th of August

8:00 – 12:00 Visit to school  

In the visits to the different classes (English, Spanish and Physical Education), it strikes to me that students have two tutors, what it is called, Tandem. The school tries the Tandem to be a man and a woman and these tutors accompany them from the 5th grade (5th primary school) to 10th grade (4th ESO).

What I really like of teaching languages in Germany is that much time is devoted to brainstorming and to enlarge their vocabulary, they even may have a vocabulary notebook and homework may be just learning the new words. Every two weeks they have a vocabulary test, but real exams are only 2 every semester, which makes me think maybe in Spain we are overcasting them. In these two exams, you cannot ask grammar or vocabulary, the exercises are centered on the 4 skills.

Another thing I like about German teenagers is that they don’t worry if there are words in the texts they don’t understand and that respect to the teacher, the other students and the class material is excellent, especially when in the higher courses. (3rd, 4th ESO).