Dear colleagues,

After the summer holidays, you will be supervising students at the University of Oldenburg in the General School Internship (ASP). We from the ASP core team would like to thank you first and foremost for agreeing to take on the role of mentor or supervisor!

Students make work, but they also bring variety, new ideas and a breath of fresh air into the classroom. Above all, we hope that these first steps in teaching and beyond will be an important, satisfying and instructive experience for the students. And we hope that the collaboration with the students - their ideas and their commitment - will enrich your everyday work. If this is not the case, please re-registering students quickly during the internship so that we can look for solutions together(ASP core team).

The information on this website is intended to support you in supervising our students. We would like to provide you with guidance and make the requirements for students transparent. Your work as a mentor/internship supervisor/supervising teacher is very important to us! We would like to support you in matters of content and organisation.

Please also draw the attention of teachers who do not act as mentors but are still involved in the training of interns to this website.

We look forward to a constructive collaboration!

Your ASP core team

Firstly: The core period of the work placement is 5 weeks. In addition, there are preparatory and follow-up visits to the school; this results in a total internship period of 6 weeks. During the 5-week internship, interns must be present at school every day (25 hours at school = 5 days of 5 hours each)!

The tasks that ASP interns must fulfil as part of their internship are given to the interns in the form of a cumulative course result sheet. This lists the following extracurricular and classroom activities:

I. Extracurricular activities

i. Compulsory elective area (2 of the listed activities must be carried out!)
- General conference, subject conference, staff meeting
- (school-internal) teacher training event
- Parents' evening, parents' meeting, information event for parents
- Excursion
- Class trip
- Project days
- Correction of class tests/written exams/tests
- Examination teaching practice
- Discussions with individual students
- Meeting of the student representatives

ii. Compulsory activities
- Discussion with a teacher about their tasks outside the classroom
- Discussion with a pedagogical specialist (not a teacher) about their pedagogical tasks
- Discussion with one of the following persons: School management, Office, caretaker:in
- Accompany a break or bus supervisor

II Teaching activities

i. Compulsory elective area (3 of the tasks listed must be completed!)
Observe core pedagogical practice in lessons, e.g.
- creating a motivating introduction to the lesson
- giving a work assignment
- guiding group work
- explaining an issue
- using a blackboard picture or other media to back up the previously developed results
- moderating a discussion among students in a learning group
- guiding work with digital media in class
- helping individual students with individual work

ii. Compulsory activities
- plan, conduct and reflect on 3 lessons
- accompany a class/learning group throughout an entire school day
- accompany another teacher (in addition to the supervising teacher) in class
- observe a student in any lesson in a core pedagogical practice

Of course, students can (and should!) also be entrusted with tasks that are not explicitly requested on the cumulative course result sheet; as a rule, it can be assumed that students will take every opportunity to lend a hand and try out their role as a teacher. In view of the relatively short internship period, however, teachers should keep in mind the tasks that interns must fulfil on the part of the university. An initial discussion about the tasks to be completed and the students' internship intentions as well as the expectations on the part of the school can be helpful in order to avoid misunderstandings and to enable the students to have the most productive internship time possible.

All students who complete the ASP practical phase have previously attended an ASP preparation seminar and the ASP lecture.

The teachers of the ASP preparatory seminars have a wide variety of backgrounds - some of them have been working in internship preparation for some time, others (so-called "lecturers") still work regularly as teachers at schools. Accordingly, the seminar design may also vary, as teachers may set different priorities or the composition of the students may require a different content orientation. However, there are some mandatory seminar contents that must be addressed in all ASP preparation seminars in order to ensure a relatively uniform preparation of all ASP interns; information on the contents and organisation of the preparation phase can be found here.

Of course, our students have already attended other seminars as part of their teacher training programme at the time of the ASP, e.g. on basic pedagogical concepts, classroom management, lesson planning, material design, etc., so that they sometimes differ greatly from each other in terms of their previous knowledge, experience and knowledge. The only prerequisite for the ASP is the content of the ASP preparation seminars, but students are advised to attend the "Teaching and Learning" module beforehand.

Whether you call yourself an internship supervisor, mentor or supervising teacher - your expertise, your perspective on school and the teaching profession and your support during the first "steps" are worth a lot to our students. As mentioned at the beginning of the greeting, interns can bring work, but also a "breath of fresh air". Past ASP programmes have shown that it is helpful for both sides if, among other things

• the students know who their contact persons are and how best to reach them,
• the teaching staff find out in a discussion which tasks the students have to fulfil for the ASP - and which additional tasks they can or want to fulfil,
• plans for the first lessons (phases and/or whole lessons, in a team with the teacher or alone) are made and concretised together with the students at an early stage,
• students are given clear instructions with regard to lesson planning and preparation (e.g. whether a lesson plan should be submitted and when exactly it should be available),
• the teaching staff is informed about the presence of the interns.

If you have any other "ingredients" for a successful collaboration, please send them to us at !

Please note! The ASP is an interdisciplinary internship, so students should gain an insight into both subjects if possible!

At the end of the internship, the cumulative course result sheet and the proof of completed internship must be signed and stamped by representatives of the school. Both documents will be presented to you by the intern in paper form.

The following applies:

• The cumulative course result sheet should only be signed if the tasks have actually been completed by the student.
• The proof of completed internship may only be signed and stamped after the signed cumulative course result sheet has been submitted.

Please refrain from signing the documents prematurely, as the signature cannot be "cancelled" afterwards!

Please also note: With your signature, you are only certifying that the student has completed the tasks conscientiously - not whether the student is suitable for the teaching profession. Don't forget that this is the first school internship and that students will go through even more practical phases later on in their training programme. If you have justified doubts about the suitability of a student, these should first be discussed in a personal interview and, if necessary, noted on the feedback form. Of course, you can also contact the respective ASP lecturer(s) to discuss the matter.

Due to the large number of students who are supervised by ASP teachers at the university, it is unfortunately only rarely possible to visit ASP students at their internship schools or in the classroom. If this does happen, you as the supervising teacher will usually be informed by your interns or the ASP teachers themselves so that they can attend any discussions and contribute to the exchange between the university and the internship schools.

If you explicitly wish to visit a school or classroom, please make contact with your intern's ASP teacher at an early stage.

Recommended handling of absences due to illness:

Students should first of all, of course, report sick to the school's Office and - if contact details are available - inform the teachers who would have supported you on the day in question. How cases of illness are dealt with is ultimately at your discretion as the internship school, which ultimately certifies the required attendance of the intern at the school with your signature on the cumulative course result sheet and the proof of completed internship. If you are of the opinion that the attendance requirement has not been met, you can also have the missed internship days made up - which is highly recommended after a certain period of illness and is often offered by students in their own interest. You can also ask for a medical certificate after a certain period of illness; however, you should inform the students of this in good time.

Recommended handling of absences due to non-university obligations (e.g. examinations):

As far as university obligations (such as examinations or compulsory excursions) are concerned, our students are encouraged to only attend these if there is absolutely no other option. However, excursions lasting several days should be avoided if possible and the missed days must be added to the practical phase in any case. However, the latter can be extremely difficult due to the limited core internship period (between the summer and autumn holidays) - moreover, interrupting the internship is not recommended! However, working on written seminar papers or preparing for an exam are not reasons to stay away from the internship school.

We at the ASP core team have a functional email address called . We ask that you always send all general enquiries about the ASP to this address first; from there, they will either be answered directly or forwarded to the relevant person in our team.

If you need to talk specifically to one of your interns, you should ask them for the name and contact details of the ASP teacher responsible. You can then request the contact details via the university website or the core team.

Even if the reason for the school contacting the ASP teacher personally is unfortunately in most cases more in the direction of "complaints"/"doubts", we would like to emphasise that you can also use this channel to express praise! :-)