ALSO - information for students

In September 2025, the semester-accompanying internship will start, in which you as a student of Teacher Training - Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools or Gymnasium will not complete the block internship A as a block, but as a semester-accompanying internship over 2 semesters (one school year) in one of the internship schools. Together with others - in a group of 4 students - you will always accompany the same 5th grade class one day a week (excluding vacations and examination periods). Half of the 5/6 teaching units will be credited as work placement and the other half will be paid.

As part of a small team of 3-4 students, you "adopt" a class for one day throughout the entire school year. As a learning facilitator, you will be responsible for around 7 students. This will enable you to spend a school year practically dealing with pedagogical relationship work and classroom management in a small team. You will prepare the content for this day specifically for the respective group of students, and you will receive the basic structures from TU Dresden.
As part of the "class team", you will accompany the students in (1) promoting reading, (2) building skills for self-regulated learning in the context of e.g. learning offices and (3) in cooperative learning processes in formats such as project work. You will reflect on your work on site at the school in the "class team" and also with mentors (e.g. former teachers from the school who provide support on site).
At the university, you will continuously attend the collegial case consultation parallel to the internship. The seminar on the block internship can also accompany you during the semester-accompanying internship. Through this support, you can use your experiences for your own skills acquisition. Before starting at the school, all participants receive a compact introduction to the teaching-learning formats.
On the project website, you will find an overview of the courses offered alongside the internship to support professional development.

Die Studierenden werden Schüler:innen begleiten im Lernen und Kompetenzen zum selbstregulierten Lernen mit ihnen aufbauen. Diese Schüler:innen hätten ohne diese Begleitung aufgrund des großen Lehrermangels Stundenausfall. Je nach Anzahl der Klassen an den Schulen, werden kleine Studierendenteams (ca. 16-30 Studierende pro Schule), die Schule einmal in der Woche unterstützt. Dabei werden sie keinen klassischen Fachunterricht leisten müssen, sondern sich in anderen Lehr-Lernformaten üben wie Projektarbeit oder Lernbüroarbeit.

After enrollment in summer term, the internship starts with the winter semester 2026/27. The assignment in the schools begins in the week from 26.-30.10.2026 and runs until the end of the school year 09.07.2027.
Whenever there is school, i.e. no vacation, the students for this model are at one of TU Dresden's internship schools from mid-October. This means that they only spend four days a week at TU Dresden and one day at school during the lecture period. Except during exam weeks, they are also at school during the lecture-free period and accompany the students.

The following internship days are expected in the 2025/26 school year: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. The selection of these days is coordinated with the courses in the various subjects for the teacher training program.

Half of the work done at the school counts toward Block A/Block B, and the other half is paid.

This continuous practice combined with supervised teaching-learning formats at TU Dresden will enable you to build competencies on acquired knowledge and necessary skills in school practice. In this format, you can reflect on your own attitude and develop action routines that you need to feel confident in acting with the students. As part of the "class team" of 4 future teachers you will initially focus on just 7 students; ideally, this number will be increased to 10 or 15 students in Block B in a similar way. In this way, you can grow into the activities of a teacher and after Block A and B, you will be able to accompany 28 students with the experience you have gained.

In the following interview, two students who completed both internships A and B with ALSO during the semester talk about their experiences.

"That's exactly what I want - to be a teacher"

NEUE LAUSITZ, 03.06.2026
The alternative teaching internship at TU Dresden is entering its third round. Two students report on what they learned in the classroom. From teachers - and from pupils. A conversation about the vanished fear of the classroom with Estelle Klinnert and Tom Kluge.

© TU Dresden

Four schools in the district of Görlitz took part in the pilot phase in the 2024/25 school year. In the 2025/26 school year, there will be 15 schools in the districts of Görlitz and Bautzen, as well as in Saxon Switzerland / Eastern Ore Mountains and the Ore Mountains district. In the 2026/27 school year the project will continue at schools in the region.

• Heinrich Pestalozzi Secondary School Löbau
• Görlitz inner city secondary school
• Pestalozzi Secondary School Neusalza-Spremberg
• Richard von Schlieben Secondary School Zittau

• Adolf Traugott von Gersdorf Secondary School, Kodersdorf
• Andert Secondary School, Ebersbach-Neugersdorf
• Bruno-Bürgel-Oberschule Weißwasser
• Goethe School, Breitenbrunn
• Oberschule am Pfortenberg Dippoldiswalde
• Secondary school "Geschwister Scholl" Krauschwitz
• Secondary School "G. E. Lessing" Freital Potschappel
• Secondary school Hoyerswerda
• Malschwitz secondary school
• Seifhennersdorf secondary school
• Oberland-Gymnasium Seifhennersdorf

The local authorities will be happy to provide you with overnight accommodation free of charge.

If you would like to participate in the alternative block internship A (semester-accompanying), please register as soon as possible in the OPAL course  ALSO - Alternatives Lehramtspraktikum Ostsachsen. Registration has been extended. Course registration stays open after June 15, 2026.
The number of participating schools depends directly on the number of bindingly enrolled students. Please note that (not only) the new schools in the project require a certain preparation time. Ideally, they can start planning before the summer break.
In order to enable timely enrollment and because the school year and the academic year do not have the same rhythm, the accompanying seminar is planned across semesters.

It is possible to switch from a block internship to a semester-long internship at any time.
If you choose the semester-long internship, you do not need to register on the Saxony Internship Portal; alternatively, you should cancel any internship position you may have already secured there.

Please register for the OPAL course ALSO - Alternatives Lehramtspraktikum Ostsachsen (Alternative teaching internship in Eastern Saxony).

An  information session is scheduled for June 1, 2026, for interested students, covering all the details regarding the schedule and procedures for the 2026–27 academic year. The project team and participating students will answer any questions about the semester aaccompanying A and B internships.

You can ask personal questions about individual organization and examination performance after enrolling in the OPAL course. You can also use the e-mail . Please include the following information: name, semester of study, teaching degree GS/OS or GYM (see also the form template by clicking on the e-mail address).