Teacher

The term "teacher" refers to persons who are in some form of teaching or educational activities. In common usage this term is usually used only for teachers who teach at a school. These are usually described by the addition of the subject they teach, that is, for example, sports math or German. The pure job title "teacher", as opposed to specific duties of such teacher or director of studies are not protected. Therefore, even persons who extracurricular courses in whatever form, be it voice, sports, art or music courses and hold together under the term instructor at driving schools teachers. The term "teacher" is the German translation of the Latin word "Magister". Especially in sports terms such as "Coach," "Coach" (engl.), or "tutor" in use. Craftsmen of high end training and authorization are called masters; in education of the universities referred to as lecturers or professors. Very colloquial and often used by students, the term "Pauker".

While in some areas, such as in sports clubs, which often have to teach through experience, education or get a short training or attendance at courses is necessary for teachers at a school for higher education. This is structured differently depending on the chosen school. Will conclude the study with the "first state", to which follows a roughly two years of teaching practice (internship) in which a teacher collects as a "trainee" with lower salaries of practical experience, often at different schools. As a trainee teacher must be a candidate to participate in further meetings and training, a week to keep a set number of accompanied and take some responsibility for teaching and demonstration lessons. Often, at least temporarily taking over a class supervision vorrausgesetzt. Completed, the trainee with the second exam, which includes oral examinations, and an essay. In many areas, especially in science, there is though a shortage of teachers. For this reason, there is in Germany in some states the option of professionals with university degrees who have no teacher training recruit to teaching school.

The work at a school is for teachers not only from the pure holding classes. Some subjects require a complex preparation and evaluation, for example by the correction of class work. Is a teacher member of the school principal, class teacher or head of a given department, he also managed a high degree of coordinative and organizational work. Many teachers support in addition to teaching subject-specific task forces, study groups, student exchange programs or trust teachers who take care of specific problems of individual students. To handle all these tasks a teacher must be especially psychologically resilient and possess a high degree of psychological sensitivity.