2021-2022 Sandwich Placement Year
Viktor Jackson17010958
Programme of Study: BaHons History
Placement Position: English Language Assistant
Hours a week: 12
Wage: Salary 850 Euros
Location: Germany
Placement Details
Option to work for 9 months in one of many available countries as an English Language Assistant. Being an ambassador for the UK, providing assistance in English classes in schools. While you help the students you also help to support the teacher’s English skills. You will be working primarily in secondary schools or higher education, with very little positions open in primary schools.
Job Role:
• Aid teachers in English lessons
• Help and provide feedback and corrections for students.
• Support students in projects and work.
• Help teach lessons or teach your own lessons (under supervision of teacher).
• Opportunities to help in bi-lingual lessons.
• Act as a cultural ambassador, sharing English language, culture and traditions to students.
• Work in up to 3 different schools
Challenges
• Working in multiple schools can cause time table clashes and means time management becomes more of a priority. Especially if you’re in more than one school in a day.
• Motivating students to engage in lessons.
• Quick changing environment, especially during exam times, lessons can change in an instant or even half way through the class.
• All of this can easily be managed with effective communication with your work placement mentor and whoever else you work with
Overall Placement Experience
The placement has broadened my skills professionally, academically and personally. The placement has allowed me to learn about the education system and helped support and solidify my goal of eventually becoming a teacher after University. It has also widened my cultural awareness and improved my foreign language and communication skills. Though English is not my field of study, it has helped support my current academic studies of German history by allowing me to learn the history from the country itself, something which is not as effective as the books in the University Library. Professionally it has improved my confidence levels, communication, time management, organisation and team working skills. As all of these are needed to be effective at the placement.
Skills
Team Working
Communication
Time Management
Organisation Skills
Social Skills