A.
The Dietrich-Heise-Schule is an independent Protestant primary school. Children being between
6 - 10 are educated in an environment created by Christian colleagues. The pupils are individually taught in small groups. This is done in close cooperation with our Polish partner school in Zgorzelec.
We teach in well balanced method to form tolerant, open minded personalities. Catholic, protestant as well as free church oriented colleagues build the staff at our school.
All together 7 teachers come from both sides of the German/Polish boarder in the most easterly town Germany. Live here is still influenced by the problems of a region which was over fifty years divided into three different states: Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany.
In cooperation with esta, the protestant children and youth association of Görlitz many projects could be achieved to interest and fascinated our pupils.
In former years we gained several experience by engaging volunteers as well as language assistance. They all brought additional activities to normal school live.

B.
Proposed activities for EVS volunteers:
Volunteers will mostly work in binational projects. They will also look after individual children who need special care. That means in short:
? Support of children in special areas
? Office of additional activities for children and parents
? Creation of informal educational office
? Office of various leisure activities
? assistance during teaching
? self plant activities during school breaks and afternoon school periods

What does the volunteer gain?
? Experience in teamwork
? Ability to plan and offer special activities in sports, creative and intellectual areas
? Gaining more competence in general as well as in special areas
? Professional competence and orientation to gain a good perspective for the future
? The ability to gain individual time management
? Getting to know be national educational work
? Insides into new developments in education
? Integration into a foreign culture
? Acquaintance of the German educational systems

C.
Volunteer profiles and recruitment process:
The volunteer want to work with children and the young and have empathy for them.
We estimate:
- basic knowledge Germanor English
- tolerance towards different social standards
- if possible some basics knowledge of all feels of education
- of great importance are:
- team spirit
- kindness
- self-reliance
- prepared to take over responsibility
- physical and emotional strength/ determination
- open for Christian values

D. -
E.
Risk prevention, safety and protection
In preparation to the stay of the volunteer in Görlitz we invited the person to a short visit at our school.
In our school is fairly small the headmaster and the second teacher will be a close partner of a volunteer.
In private areas a family of our school will look after the volunteer and offer him/her lodging. Here we will get personal advise when difficulties at school have to be discussed.

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