If you study elementary school teaching, you'll be right in the morning and free in the afternoon, right? In this “Hot Seat” episode, TU Dresden students reveal what's true about this cliché, whether they already own a laminating machine and how much it annoys them to be called an “elementary school chick”. And why are there actually mainly female teachers at elementary schools?

Elementary school teaching degree https://tudresden.de/studium/vordem...


Center for Teacher Education and Educational Research (ZLSB) https://tudresden.de/zlsb

Our shooting location:
We filmed the “Hot seat” in the Dresden University School’s elementary school. TUD Dresden University of Technology is supporting the University School pilot project from a scholarly standpoint. University School Dresden is designed as a publiclyoperated Gemeinschaftsschule – a school form allowing for the joint learning of all students – by the City of Dresden. The aim of the pilot project is to test and research innovative forms of teaching, learning and coexistence. More information https://universitaetsschule.org/

Content:
0:00 Intro
0:39 Introductions
1:12 Are you always fully equipped with crayons, scissors, glue, etc.?
1:37 A lesson is not complete without laminated worksheets, right?
1:57 Have you got your own laminator yet?
2:12 Do you like to do crafts in your spare time?
2:39 The teacher is always right and you’re always free in the afternoon, right?
3:28 Do you really need a degree to teach children elementary school subjects?
4:00 Was the high school material too difficult for you?
4:40 Are you always very patient with children?
5:00 You have everything neatly organized and well labeled, right?
5:22 Why are most elementary school teachers women?
6:04 Does it bother you when people call you “Grundschulmausi”?
6:34 Are there any new fantastic learning concepts today that didn’t exist when you were at school?
8:04 Outro

Hot Seat:
Each episode focuses on a different group of people who all have something in common – be it that they share the same workplace, same degree program, or same research area. We ask them questions from our community and do away with clichés and prejudices.

A degree in elementary school teaching?
At TU Dresden, studying to become an elementary school teacher includes a chosen subject including its didactics and three elementary school teaching methodologies, educational sciences including elementary school pedagogy, school practice studies (during the semester and in block form) and supplementary studies. Students can choose between German, English, ethics/philosophy, Protestant and Catholic religion, art, mathematics and music as core subjects. In educational sciences, students explore educational processes, primary school pedagogy, teaching and professional research as well as general didactics, educational psychology and the education system.

Editing: Karl J. Donath, AnneAiline Krause
Production: Philipp Schulze, Felix Schneider