Study teaching profession at the University of Erfurt

Our interest questionnaire for prospective students will help you answer this question. It lists various tasks of a teacher, which will help you to round off your picture of the appointment of a teacher and clarify whether these activities interest you.

Our subject selection questiomaire will help you answer this question. In it, you have the opportunity to directly compare two subjects that come into consideration for you with regard to their advantages and disadvantages.

Our personality questionnaire for prospective students will help you answer this question. Because: Certain personality traits form a solid basis for academic and professional success among teachers. With the help of the questionnaire and the evaluation, you can see to what extent your personality matches these personality traits that are favourable for the teaching profession.

Our "SeLF" will help you answer this question. The self-exploration procedure is not a personality test, but would like to encourage you to reflect on the teaching profession. Reflection is stimulated by 16 short films in which central tasks within the profession are addressed.

FIT-L (R) - FIT for the Teaching Profession will help you answer the question. This questionnaire allows interested persons to get a concrete picture of the requirements of the teaching profession. By comparing it with one's own expectations and prerequisites, a differentiated judgement of personal aptitude and potential development needs is possible.

General information on the individual test options within the framework of our project "Teaching Talent Center" can be found at:

https://eignung.weebly.com

Our online tool "Studimat" supports you in finding the right combination of major and minor subject in the Bachelor's programme for your desired school type.

Simply combine them now!

The teaching subjects that can be chosen differ depending on the type of school. You can find an overview of this in the table on the website Studying teaching profession at the University of Erfurt.

At the University of Erfurt, for example, you can train for the following teaching subjects:

• German
• English
• Ethics
• Protestant Religion Education
• French
• History
• Catholic Religion Education
• Arts
• Mathematics
• Music
• Russian
• Social Studies and Science
• Educational garden
• Sport
• Social studies
• Handicrafts/Technology (for Secondary Schools)

To increase your chances on the job market, it can be advantageous to choose at least one so-called deficiency subject. This includes especially the STEM subjects, such as Mathematics and Technology (for Secondary Schools).

At the University of Erfurt you can train for the teaching profession of vocational schools, Special Needs Pedagogy, primary schools and secondary schools (incl. Gemeinschaftsschule [secondary level 1]) .

The school levels in Thuringia are:

1. the primary level, which comprises grades 1 to 4,
2. the lower secondary level, which comprises grades 5 to 9 or 10 of the general education schools,
3. the upper secondary level, which comprises the one-year introductory phase and the two-year qualification phase (gymnasiale Oberstufe), the vocational schools and the college.

A teacher's task is to professionally plan, design and evaluate lessons in the respective subject. In doing so, they work closely with colleagues of the same grade level or with teachers who teach the same subject.

Another important part of the teaching profession is class management, which is closely linked to parental work. This not only entails tasks such as organising parents' evenings or conducting parents' meetings, but also responsibility for class trips, hiking days and special projects.

In order to be able to ensure the good quality of their teaching in the long term, teachers naturally also take part in in-service training on an ongoing basis.

After a special further training for managers, a teacher can, for example, apply for a so-called function position as head teacher . They can also become a subject advisor for a subject. This person organises in-service training within the school, regionally or centrally.

The chances of teachers being hired in Thuringia are currently very good.

In order to increase mobility in training, the resolution of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder (KMK) of 7 March 2013 created joint implementation guidelines for the adaptation of regulations and procedures for recruitment to preparatory and teaching posts as well as for the recognition of study and examination achievements in teacher training courses (see KMK).

However, since the individual Länder have Länder-specific regulations for teacher training, it is not possible to make a general statement on recognition here.

Teachers' salaries and career opportunities are determined by where and whom they teach. There are differences between the individual school types and federal states.

Salary of teachers from primary to secondary schools

A valid higher education entrance qualification, usually the Allgemeine Hochschulreife (general higher education entrance qualification), is required for the undergraduate Bachelor's degree programme. Bundled information on the general admission requirements can be found on our website on admission requirements.

The Bachelor's degree subjects Special Education and Inclusive Pedagogy (teaching profession Special Needs Pedagogy) and Primary Education (teaching profession Primary schools) are subject to limited admission (NC).

For the subjects Arts, Music and Sport , proof of a successful aptitude test is required .

To the admission requirements

The term "NC" is composed of the Latin terms numerus for "number, number" and clausus for "closed" and means: "limited number". The term "Numerus clausus" is then used for the capacity-related limitation of admission in certain subjects for access to higher education studies.

In principle, it is possible to complete both the Bachelor's and the Master's programme on a part-time basis. In this case, as a rule only half of the regular credit points/ECTS are acquired in a part-time semester. The study programme is extended accordingly.

Please note: The courses to be attended (lectures, seminars, etc.) in a part-time programme are not specially arranged for the evening or the weekend, but result from the regular, current course offerings of the respective degree programme.

You can decide on a semester-by-semester basis whether you wish to continue studying part-time or full-time (application for part-time study).

Please note that students studying part-time do not receive BAföG.

For the Bachelor's degree subjects Special Education and Inclusive Pedagogy (teaching profession for special education) and Primary Education (teaching profession for primary schools) with restricted admission, you can apply online at the University of Erfurt from 1 May to 15 July each year. Once you have been admitted, you can enrol.

You can enrol directly for a combination of two admission-free Bachelor's programmes from 1 May to 15 September each year.

Information on application & enrolment