Head of Department
Subject managers train prospective teachers in the subjects within the framework of their legal clerkship or teacher training. As a rule, they are teachers themselves in schools that receive a reduction in hours.
tasks
Subject managers receive their function at study seminars (preparatory seminars ) and organize subject-related teacher training. Their work is characterized by regular specialist meetings with the trainee teachers (prospective teachers) who are trained in the relevant subject, and through individual advice on the occasion of class visits with the following debriefing, in which they express themselves on individual and didactic advantages and weaknesses as well as the perspectives to be developed from them. In the study seminar, your superior is the seminar leader .
In addition to their advisory function, the department heads also have an assessing function: As a rule, a large part of the term papers that are part of the second state examination is carried out in one subject with the participation of department managers (formulation of the topic, assessment and evaluation by two experts).
Exam hours are to be shown as part of the state examinations. Here, too, the department heads play an important role as their assessment plays a key role in the assessment and assessment of the examination board. For more information, see the currently valid examination regulations.
Many specialist managers work z. B. in the development of standards for their subject, in the specifications for central Abitur exams or in general in the area of further training (in the third phase of teacher training).
In their respective department, they are available to advise the other trainers of the study seminars on subject-related matters. In this function, for example, they provide information on specialist innovations and advanced training.
The prerequisites for working as a head of department lie in technical, didactic, general pedagogical competence and leadership. These characteristics are usually demonstrated in the context of an application in the form of an internship . It extends z. B. on the following areas that are detected in one day:
- own lessons in the subject
- Observation, advice to an unknown trainee in the subject
- Carrying out a technical meeting in a foreign technical seminar
- Oral examination by the superior authority (with study seminar supervision and school supervision, possibly also technical supervision)