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A   REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS COURSE

 

1.    Information and Organisation

    Formal requirements for admission to the course (order of priority)

    Maximum number of participants = 20 !!! (further courses starting in spring)

Order of priority:

- Lizentiat / Master completed

- Lizentiatsarbeit / Masterarbeit completed

- Lizentiatsarbeit / Masterarbeit underway

- All general didactic lectures completed (or at least „Einführungsvorlesung“)

- Semester/Year abroad in English-speaking country completed.

  This should guarantee the high linguistic proficiency and competence that  are essential to participation in and maximum benefit  from the course.

        (Diplomprüfungsreglement § 11 Abs.5

        HF 9 months abroad = 2 semesters/  NF 6 months abroad = 1 semester)

 

- At least 7 semesters completed at university.

 

Participation requirements for successful completion with „Testat“ or "credit points":

- Regular attendance of course (both semesters!). Please keep enough time free to visit classes and discuss lessons afterwards. (See below.)

 

Desired attitude:

- readiness to take an active and open-minded part in the course

- readiness to invest time into the preparation of assignments,  into visiting other students' classes and my classes.

- willingness to exercise self-criticism

- sensitivity in the criticism of others, willingness to encourage others.

 

2    Time Management: The Didactics Course is extremely time-intensive:

 

- you have to teach 4 lessons under the supervision of a teacher in a grammar-school

- you have to watch 4 lessons given by your ÃœbungslehrerIn

- you have to watch 4 lessons given by fellow students

- you have to teach one lesson under the supervision of your didactics teacher and watch the previous lesson

- you have to watch at least 5 lessons given by your didactics teacher

 

- do not forget to calculate one hour after each lesson given or watched to discuss it

 

 

Taking these requirements into account, it is obvious that you cannot do more than one "Fachdidaktik“ course at one time.

 

This information is not at all designed to scare you off the course, but simply to provide a realistic picture of what you can expect. The intense work normally creates a great team spirit in the group.

 

 

B    Books to buy:

 

    Pearson Longman, Jeremy Harmer: How to teach English (new edition with DVD), 2007, ISBN 978-1-4058-4774-2

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    Macmillan, Jim Scrivener: Learning Teaching, edition of 2005, ISBN 1-4050-1399-0

    amazon online Bestellung here

 

    Oxford, Diane Larsen-Freeman: Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching, second edition, 2000, ISBN 0-19-435574-8

    amazon online Bestellung here

 

    For the second semester: Cambridge, Joanne Collie & Stephen Slater: Literature in the Language Classroom

    (A resource book of ideas and activities), 1987 / 2002, ISBN 0-521-31224-8

    amazon online Bestellung here

 

 

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