Criteria

Age: 18-25 years, German language skills, We focus especially disadvantaged people.

Procedure

Please fill in the 2 documents in GERMAN and send them back to us. Furthermore we need a CV and motivation letter from you.

Work and Learning Possibilities
According to their interest and potential the young volunteer will be integrated in all daily activities.
The open mindedness of our children and staff members will make it easy for the volunteer to feel comfortable in the team.
He or she will get to know our by age subdivided groups of children and our way of care and education according to Friedrich Fröbel.

Furthermore he/she can deepen her/his social and organizational skills by working in a team, planning and organizing projects.
Our proven methods for intercultural learning and the various cultural backgrounds of the young volunteers are the foundation to create new intercultural projects to encourage the children to tolerance and curiosity for different cultures and ways of life.
Besides that we have a cooperation with the secondary school and sports club, which are situated close to us.
On a regular basis teachers and students of the secondary school dramatic arts class invite our children to stage plays, which incorporate the children as an active part.
Due to the cooperation with the sports club we can use the gym hall once per week.
In the framework of both cooperations the volunteer is required to create his/her own play- and sportsprograms, projects, which he/she can offer during his/her voluntary service.
In our own kitchen we daily cook a diverse meal according to a healthy diet.
With this intention the volunteer may cook some typical meals from of his/her country.
Our staff members are open for any new ideas and suggestions.
As far as possible the volunteer will be included in the decision-making-processes.

The volunteers role
The special spatial and pedagogical frameworks of the "Domschlösschen" offer the volunteer extensive initiatives for all kinds of tasks and activities.
The development and implementation of activities based on the volunteers interests will be discussed by the volunteer and staff members together.
During the service the volunteer will work with one group of children most of the time, where he/she has the possibility to create short-termed projects with a restricted number of children.
There is enough margin to realize her/his own ideas, interests within this group. Furthermore her/his task is to help the nursery school teacher in the daily care of the children and to give the work new impulses along the way.
They can take a part in all daily activities, regarding to their interests.
Certainly it is also possible to offer workshops and activities for all children in the kindergarten.

Activities of the volunteer
- Development, preparation, planning of time-contrained projects or activities (music, arts, aesthetics, sports) according to their yearlong program
- Developing sportsgames and activities, which can be realized at the grounds outdoor even when the wether conditions are not good
- Support of sports-activities in the gym hall
- Accompanying field trips in the surrounding area
- Development and realization of intercultural education projects
- German- English workshops / German - Mother tongue workshops
Development and realization of playful language offers, language study travel in the kindergarten, stories, etc. in english and also in the mother-tongue
- Preperation and support of the intercultural stage plays between the kindergarten and the secondary school
- Help in the preparation of a healthy diet

We expect from our staff members and also from our vollunteers, that they will support the children in every acceptable tasks.