As a language coach, you will support international students in the semester courses which you attend together in your degree programme and help them with language difficulties in small learning groups. As a culture coach (only students of Faculty 6), you offer workshops in which you combine learning German with social activities.
Go to Stud.IP to the course "S.o.S Studieren ohne Sprachbarrieren".
There, select the corresponding sub-event in which you would like to become active as a coach:
Seminar: SOS - Studium | Sprachcoaches [WS 2022/23]
Seminar: SOS - Workshops | Kulturcoaches [WS 2022/23] (only students of faculty 6)
In Stud.IP enter the course (lecture / seminar / practical training etc.) in which you would like to become active as a coach. You can enter up to three courses.
Ideally, as a language coach, you will offer support in the courses you are attending in the current semester in order to reinforce the shared learning experience. However, you can also indicate courses that you have already taken in previous semesters.
Culture coaches come from Faculty 6 and are supervised by the German as a Foreign Language department. For further information, please contact the colleagues in the German as a Foreign Language Department:
Choose a suitable date in Stud.IP for the two-part preparation course. Participation is compulsory for all language coaches.
In the preparation courses your intercultural skills are trained. In addition, you will be sensitised to linguistic / technical language challenges and receive organisational tips on how to lead your learning groups and how to run the S.o.S. programme.
After the preparatory courses the learning groups are activated in the Stud.IP event. The learning groups carry the title of the event which the language coaches have chosen as a coaching event.
The international students can select a suitable learning group based on the titles. The language coach supervises about 2 to 5 participants* in one learning group.
As soon as the learning groups are final, the language coach must organise study meetings. These meetings can take place online or in personal exchange in accordance with the current Corona Protection Ordinance.
At the end of each learning group meeting, the language coaches prepare a short protocol.
Approximately six to eight weeks after the start of the learning group meetings, all language coaches meet in a feedback workshop to exchange experiences with each other and with the staff of the S.o.S. project in order to reflect on the experiences made and to further improve their own coaching skills.
Participation in the feedback workshop is compulsory for all language coaches.
If the learning groups are successfully completed, the language coaches receive four credits in the interdisciplinary professionalisation area. Eight detailed protocols of the study meetings serve as proof. In addition, the employees of the S.o.S. programme observe the learning units at irregular intervals.
If the learning groups are successfully completed, the language coaches receive four credits in the interdisciplinary professionalisation area.
Senior coaches (language coaches who have already taken part in the programme once) receive two credits in the interdisciplinary professionalisation area if they take part again.
Please register for the dates via Stud.IP.
When registering, enter one to three subjects or lectures without abbreviations that you would like to offer as learning topics for your learning group under "Additional information". At a first joint meeting with international students after the preparatory event, the suitable learning groups will be put together. The learning meetings can then be organised individually.
As the S.o.S programme has become very popular in recent semesters and only a limited number of participants are allowed in one seminar room due to the corona situation, we offer three parallel preparatory courses (Course 1 , 2 and 3) with identical contents and different times.
The preparatory seminar consists of three parts. For each part there are three dates (A, B, C) to choose from.
There are four surveys in Stoodle (see menu bar). Please select a date that suits you in each survey so that we can distribute the number of participants evenly. Each participant must have taken part in Parts A, B and C exactly once in order to successfully complete the preparatory event.
Preparatory course 1 | Date | Time | Room |
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Part 1A | Fri 04.11.2022 | 8:00-11:45 | BW 74.131 (Bültenweg 74, Raum 131, im Sprachenzentrum) |
Part 1B | Fri 04.11.2022 | 12:00-15:45 | BW 74.131 (Bültenweg 74, Raum 131, im Sprachenzentrum) |
Part 1C | Fri 04.11.2022 | 16:00-19:45 | BW 74.131 (Bültenweg 74, Raum 131, im Sprachenzentrum) |
The following dates are compulsory for language coaches:
Whole group matching meeting for course A, B and C:
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