Abendhauptschule

A Abendhauptschule is a special secondary school form and belongs to the group of the Second pathways (schools for adults, SfE ).

Generally

Be Abendhauptschulen, depending on the state and local tradition usually offered by community colleges in different " time windows ":

• On individual nights of the week (eg three to four days ),
• Evening, approximately from 17:30 clock, every day from Monday to Thursday including,
• Afternoon classes, approximately from 14:30 clock
• Morning classes ( high school days ), approximately from 8:00 clock at three to four working days.

At one Abendhauptschule can reach the secondary school. This is without or with a major in English possible ( in Bavaria, the secondary school with English is also referred to as a quality, as he qualified experience, to a wider range of professional opportunities ).

Access

To be included on a Abendhauptschule, certain requirements must be met:

• The / applicants / in must have met the statutory compulsory education,
• Not yet have acquired appropriate equivalent level of education from secondary school in each State and
• In some cases additional requirements of the receiving educational institution fulfill (eg sufficient knowledge of German, English language proficiency in the subject English, etc.)
• Individual federal states also make it a condition that the compulsory vocational education must be met or that the / candidates / at the same time not attending a different school, at a secondary modern school at least an equivalent level of education can be acquired.

Information can be obtained in most cases the folk high schools in the larger towns and / or any appropriate school authority.

Costs

The day or evening secondary schools are offered depending on the province and support to different fees. Sometimes necessary books are lent for free or for a fee or deposit for lessons or even have to be purchased.

Teaching and testing

For people without a high school degree or with the completion of the delivery or special school education lasts until the secondary school about eight months to one and a half years.

Some sources preliminary courses are offered in which prior learning material refreshed, or is re-learned with interested parties with a low educational background, and so prepared for the subsequent learning in the Abendhauptschule.

Core courses are mostly German, mathematics and, if the preconditions are met, English. In most places for migrant / inside instead of English is an exam in their native language possible.

The subjects covered by the Abendhauptschule is slightly reduced compared to a normal high school.

In class sizes of 15-25 students often is learned. These small groups have the advantage for learners that teachers can better and more intense than in day schools adjust to the group.

Tests are usually completed in a state secondary school.

History

The statements related adult education exists in Germany since the mid- twenties and is in the tradition of the early workers' education associations, folk high schools (formerly Federation of National Education ) and liberal / civic education initiatives. Common to these origins that little people and / or socially disadvantaged groups of society should have access to more education and opportunities for professional growth.

Abendhauptschulen were mostly founded in the wake of the establishment of an evening school or Abendrealschule.