ALSO - information for students

In September 2025, the semester-accompanying internship will start, in which you as a student of Teacher Training - Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools or Gymnasium will not complete the block internship A as a block, but as a semester-accompanying internship over 2 semesters (one school year) in one of the internship schools. Together with others - in a group of 4 students - you will always accompany the same 5th grade class one day a week (excluding vacations and examination periods). Half of the 5/6 teaching units will be credited as work placement and the other half will be paid.

As part of a small team of 3-4 students, you "adopt" a class for one day throughout the entire school year. As a learning facilitator, you will be responsible for around 7 students. This will enable you to spend a school year practically dealing with pedagogical relationship work and classroom management in a small team. You will prepare the content for this day specifically for the respective group of students, and you will receive the basic structures from TU Dresden.
As part of the "class team", you will accompany the students in (1) promoting reading, (2) building skills for self-regulated learning in the context of e.g. learning offices and (3) in cooperative learning processes in formats such as project work. You will reflect on your work on site at the school in the "class team" and also with mentors (e.g. former teachers from the school who provide support on site).
At the university, you will continuously attend the collegial case consultation parallel to the internship. The seminar on the block internship can also accompany you during the semester-accompanying internship. Through this support, you can use your experiences for your own skills acquisition. Before starting at the school, all participants receive a compact introduction to the teaching-learning formats.

Die Studierenden werden Schüler:innen begleiten im Lernen und Kompetenzen zum selbstregulierten Lernen mit ihnen aufbauen. Diese Schüler:innen hätten ohne diese Begleitung aufgrund des großen Lehrermangels Stundenausfall. Je nach Anzahl der Klassen an den Schulen, werden kleine Studierendenteams (ca. 16-30 Studierende pro Schule), die Schule einmal in der Woche unterstützt. Dabei werden sie keinen klassischen Fachunterricht leisten müssen, sondern sich in anderen Lehr-Lernformaten üben wie Projektarbeit oder Lernbüroarbeit.

After enrollment in summer term, the internship starts with the winter semester 2025. The assignment in the schools begins in the week from 20.-24.10.2025 and runs until 26.06.2026.
Whenever there is school, i.e. no vacation, the students for this model are at one of TU Dresden's internship schools from mid-October. This means that they only spend four days a week at TU Dresden and one day at school during the lecture period. Except during exam weeks, they are also at school during the lecture-free period and accompany the students.

The following internship days are possible in the 2025/26 school year: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. The selection of these days is coordinated with the courses in the various subjects for the teacher training program.

Half of the work at the school is counted as Block A, i.e. after one school year, 100 hours of work placement have been completed and thus Block A has been completed (after submitting an internship report). The further school days are paid to the students, 120 Euros each day.

This continuous practice combined with supervised teaching-learning formats at TU Dresden will enable you to build competencies on acquired knowledge and necessary skills in school practice. In this format, you can reflect on your own attitude and develop action routines that you need to feel confident in acting with the students. As part of the "class team" of 4 future teachers you will initially focus on just 7 students; ideally, this number will be increased to 10 or 15 students in Block B in a similar way. In this way, you can grow into the activities of a teacher and after Block A and B, you will be able to accompany 28 students with the experience you have gained.

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Four schools in the district of Görlitz took part in the pilot phase in the 2024/25 school year. In the 2025/26 school year, there will be 15 schools in the districts of Görlitz and Bautzen, as well as in Saxon Switzerland / Eastern Ore Mountains and the Ore Mountains district.

• Heinrich Pestalozzi Secondary School Löbau
• Görlitz inner city secondary school
• Pestalozzi Secondary School Neusalza-Spremberg
• Richard von Schlieben Secondary School Zittau

• Adolf Traugott von Gersdorf Secondary School, Kodersdorf
• Andert Secondary School, Ebersbach-Neugersdorf
• Bruno-Bürgel-Oberschule Weißwasser
• Goethe School, Breitenbrunn
• Oberschule am Pfortenberg Dippoldiswalde
• Secondary school "Geschwister Scholl" Krauschwitz
• Secondary School "G. E. Lessing" Freital Potschappel
• Secondary school Hoyerswerda
• Malschwitz secondary school
• Seifhennersdorf secondary school
• Oberland-Gymnasium Seifhennersdorf

The local authorities will be happy to provide you with overnight accommodation free of charge.

If you would like to participate in the alternative block internship A (semester-accompanying), please register as soon as possible, but no later than the end of the school year on June 27, 2025 in the OPAL course "Semester-accompanying block internship A".
The number of participating schools depends directly on the number of bindingly enrolled students. Please note that (not only) the new schools in the project require a certain preparation time. Ideally, they can start planning before the summer break.
In order to enable timely enrollment and because the school year and the academic year do not have the same rhythm, the accompanying seminar is planned across semesters.

It is possible to switch from a block internship to a semester-long internship at any time.

Please register for the OPAL course "Semester-accompanying block internship A". You will be automatically invited to the information event.

There is an information event at the start of the summer semester. For the school year 2025/26 it took place on Monday, April 28, 2025, hybrid. All details can be found in the calendar entry of the Chair of Inclusive Education.

You can find information at the ZLSB internship office and reach the advisors via the contact form, under Internship Coordination.

You can ask personal questions about individual organization and examination performance after enrolling in the OPAL course. You can also use the e-mail . Please include the following information: name, semester of study, teaching degree GS/OS or GYM (see also the form template by clicking on the e-mail address).