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Career Paths in Education
Higher Education Teaching, School Education, Youth and Adult Education, Intercultural Education, Human Resources Development, Political Education, Language Teaching
Studying language, literature, and culture is often stereotypically associated with something easy, relaxed, and lighthearted, like an endless summer semester with great people. However, not only language learning but also professional engagement with language products, especially a foreign language, requires a high degree of discipline, receptiveness, and frustration tolerance. Studying a foreign language is self-education at the highest level and often enables you to “turn the tables” and pass on your knowledge and information to others. In order to be able to do this successfully in a professional environment later on, it’s worthwhile integrating educational content into your studies. Of course, you could study to become a schoolteacher, but for a passionate connoisseur of Irish folk tales, import modules, tutor and mentor programs, and later professional development and training can also be effective. Even those who have studied languages in order to become schoolteachers are not necessarily limited to working in schools, but can successfully enter all of the educational fields listed above.
Possible Tasks
- You develop educational and teaching approaches tailored to specific target groups.
- You conduct courses, seminars, and individual events on language, culture, and regional studies, or teach foreign languages.
- You organize events to accompany lessons, such as excursions and an evening program for a weekend seminar.
- You select suitable teaching materials and trial new learning and teaching methods.
- You support course participants with their questions, assignments, and learning difficulties.
- As an institute or department manager, you identify educational needs and determine the course and event program.
- You are responsible for recruiting, supervising, and guiding teaching staff.
- You advise customers and those interested in education about the educational opportunities available.
- You create teaching materials and research various current and historical sources from the respective language and cultural area, e.g. novels, reports, films, or recordings of spoken language.
- For cultural institutions, you develop approaches to support the integration of local residents with foreign citizenship, for example.
- In speech therapy/clinical linguistics, you diagnose, train, and improve people’s speech and language skills. However, you must have the relevant master’s degree for this field.Industries and Occupations
- Adult continuing education centers
- Religious educational institutions
- Institutes offering e-learning
- Volunteer service providers
- Educational institutions of political parties, trade unions, and other organizations
- Language schools and adult continuing education centers, private and company courses
- Higher, vocational, and technical education institutions
- Kindergartens and preschools, e.g. multilingual language education
- Religious communities
- Public sector administration, e.g. Federal Language Office
- Publishing, e.g. textbooks or magazines for foreign language teaching
- Software and database companies, e.g. educational softwareJob Boards and Professional Associations
- Stellenangebote WiLa-Arbeitmarkt
- Deutscher Bildungsserver
- Jobbörse der Agentur für Arbeit
- Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten e.V.
- Freiwilligendienste Kultur und Bildung
- Stellenbörse der Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung (BKJ) e.V.
- Institut für Internationale Zusammenarbeit des Deutschen Volkshochschulverbandes (dvv international)
- Hueber - Sprachunterricht in der Erwachsenenbildung
- Bundesverband für akademische Sprachtherapie und Logopädie
- KULTweet
- Hueber Jobbörse
- Forum Deutsch als Fremdsprache
- Deutscher Volkshochschul Verband
