SERVICE-LEARNING PROGRAMME

TELLUS

There’s enormous pressure on pupils who have only just arrived in Germany: they have to learn a new language, get a school-leaving qualification, and decide what kind of career they want to do. So we’ve set up a learning space called TELLUS where university students can support the progress of those attending school while also enhancing their own professional skills.

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For whom?
Students in the Rhine-Main region

Degree courses
Teaching qualification,
business education (BA),
education, 
social work,
psychology

Aim
Supporting pupils

Duration
1 school year

Location
Vocational schools in the Rhine-Main region

Teaching together – learning from each other

We initiated TELLUS as a service-learning programme in 2016. The students complete their mandatory internship at vocational schools via TELLUS, collecting didactic and socio-educational experience along the way. 

Would you like to really achieve something with your mandatory paid work experience? Send us your application and become an intern with TELLUS.

The students spend around ten hours per week helping the pupils to learn German and get ready for the world of work and training. They actively support teachers and other school staff in day-to-day school life and plan lessons together. In addition to giving students hands-on experience of a school setting, TELLUS provides an instructive and wide-ranging accompanying programme. 

‘I learned an unbelievable amount from my pupils, and vice versa. We grew and evolved with each other, side by side.’

Isobel, TELLUS intern, studying to become a teacher

TELLUS in numbers

85

hours of accompanying programme

4

universities

7

vocational schools

11

months with allowance paid

1

school year

TELLUS on video

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‘I learned an unbelievable amount from my pupils, and vice versa. We grew and evolved with each other, side by side.’

Isobel, TELLUS intern, studying to become a teacher

Partners

‘TELLUS is a Crespo Foundation programme in cooperation with vocational schools, Goethe University in Frankfurt, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Technical University Darmstadt, and Hochschule Darmstadt accompanied and supported by the Heraeus Bildungsstiftung and Goethe University in Frankfurt.

CONTACTS

‘The internship runs long enough that students are able to develop a close relationship with pupils – many feel that’s a huge plus.’

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Yvonne Nünlist
Crespo Foundation

‘It’s really lovely being able to witness the students’ commitment and resourcefulness and see them making progress!’

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Nicole Lustig
Crespo Foundation