Digital international students’ forum: Exchange experience: how VET teachers are trained in Germany

On April 22, 2021, the project team of the University of Konstanz conducted an online international students’ forum on the topic “Exchange experience: how VET teachers are trained in Germany” with over 90 participants

On April 22, 2021, the project team of the University of Konstanz organized an online international students’ forum on the topic “Exchange experience: how VET teachers are trained in Germany”. Because of the pandemic and travel restrictions, the planned study visits of Ukrainian students, who are future vocational teachers, cannot be implemented, therefore the project consortium agreed that an online forum can help to some extent compensate the study visits.

The main objective of the online forum is to provide Ukrainian prospective vocational teachers with insights into studying at the German VET teacher study program (business and economics education) and the procedure of the school internship and the subsequent traineeship. More than 90 participants from the Ukrainian Pedagogics Engineering Academy (Kharkiv), National Transport University (Kyiv), Kyiv National Economic University (Kyiv), Melitopol Pedagogical University (Melitopol) and other HEIs from Ukraine took part in the event.

The Master students of the University of Konstanz, Antje Bäcker and Anne-Kathrin Obergfell, gave interesting presentations on:

  • their motivations to become vocational teachers,
  • experience of studying at the Master programme Economics and Business Education,
  • procedure and experience reports from the school internship,
  • transfer from the study to the traineeship,
  • Business Education Students’ Working Group at the University of Konstanz (AK WIPAED).

Participants actively put numerous questions to the speakers and during the discussion sessions compared the structure of the Ukrainian vocational teacher training system with the German VET teacher education.

The presentation slides in Ukrainian and German are available below.

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