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What training courses are available for nursery school teachers, teachers and other educational professionals in Offenbach and the surrounding area? What support services and materials are available for your educational work - and not just with children and young people? You can find advice and information here - and extensive databases for your own research.
The offer is constantly being expanded - so it's worth checking back here often!
General information, advice and offers
Counseling center for parents, children and young people of the city of Offenbach
Services for educational professionals in children's and youth facilities and in schools:
- Advice on pedagogical issues and institutional conflicts
- Concept development
- Further education and training
- Supervision and practical advice
- Case seminars
- Lectures
- Daycare center consulting of the EKO
Interdisciplinary early intervention and early counseling center
Training courses on issues relating to the participation of people on the autism spectrum in daycare, school, home and work as well as on autism-specific topics. The training courses on the various topics are designed for the different specialist groups.
Specialist advice for educational professionals from childcare facilities on (speech) developmental problems, promotion, therapy and support options, including in the childcare facility, as well as on integrative measures and curative education topics.
Addiction prevention centers for the city and district of Offenbach
The specialist center offers the following services:
- Training, further training and exercises on addiction-specific and addiction prevention topics for teachers, social workers, social pedagogues, educators, youth welfare workers, associations, companies, educational institutions
- Further training according to special programmes at schools and organizations, such as "Klasse Klasse"
- Networking with guidance teachers, school authorities, self-help, outpatient addiction support, local authorities, judicial authorities and police, healthcare staff
- Organization and implementation of specialist days on special topics
Specialist training for educational and social professions (vhs Offenbach)
Educational professionals face a variety of different challenges every day. The training program of the Offenbach Adult Education Centre is designed to help them deal with these challenges even better.
Online training for educational professionals (vfkv gGmbH))
Online training events from vfkv - Ausbildungsinstitut München gGmbH on various topics relating to pupils, but also to the needs and concerns of teachers and educators themselves.
These are intended to help educational professionals and teachers to recognize signs of mental illness in children and young people and to react to them in everyday school and educational life and also to show them how they can protect themselves.
The events are aimed at teachers, educational professionals, school psychologists, school social workers, trainee teachers, students and other interested parties.
Creative Change e.V.
Various training courses for daycare centers and schools on the following topics:
- Crash course in theater pedagogy: conflict resolution with children and young people
- Class council: social competence through democratic action
- Strong colleges: Collegial case consultation through theatrical experimentation
Other educational institutions in Offenbach offer training courses and workshops. Take a look in the following section:
For teachers and educators
- The BEP modules (opens in a new tab)
- Course finder (Education Media Group) (opens in a new tab)
- Educator training: Databases (opens in a new tab)
- Online training & web seminars (opens in a new tab)
- Information portals for early childhood education professionals (opens in a new tab)
- Further training initiative for early education professionals (WiFF) (opens in a new tab)
- Treasure hunt: Program for daycare centers (opens in a new tab)
- Treasure hunt - School in sight (opens in a new tab)
For teachers
- Hessian Teachers' Academy (opens in a new tab)
- Hesse-wide training database (opens in a new tab)
- Hesse school portal (opens in a new tab)
- Educational support, advice and further training (SSA Offenbach) (opens in a new tab)
- German Teachers' Association Hesse (opens in a new tab)
- Hessian continuing education database (opens in a new tab)
- IHK Vocational Orientation Project Office (opens in a new tab)
- Education click (opens in a new tab)
- Education box of the Hessischer Rundfunk (opens in a new tab)
- Come do MINT (opens in a new tab)
- PIKAS: German Center for Mathematics Teacher Education (opens in a new tab)
- German school portal (opens in a new tab)
Occupational health and safety for public schools
The Medical Airport Service (MAS) is the occupational health service provider of the state of Hesse. It offers specific health services for teachers and schools.
Specialist literature and material for educational work
- Library of the Offenbach study seminars GHRF and grammar schools
- Pedagogy portal (opens in a new tab)
- Open Educational Resources (OER) - educational materials (opens in a new tab)
- peDOCS: Open Access Publications (opens in a new tab)
- Educational science literature databases (opens in a new tab)
- Children's Research Foundation (opens in a new tab)
- Daycare center handbook (Bostelmann/Textor) (opens in a new tab)
You can also find further offers and materials here:
Current studies and publications from various subject areas
- Cultural education begins at home or in the youth center (opens in a new tab)
- Youth study on the use of artificial intelligence in schools (opens in a new tab)
- Recommendation for the analysis and evaluation of the work of vocational schools as a contribution to continuous quality development (opens in a new tab)
- Study on lateral and side entrants in STEM teaching (opens in a new tab)
Further training opportunities
IT consulting for organizations
The vhs Offenbach offers IT courses specially tailored to the needs and requirements of public authorities, companies and institutions. This may reduce training times and costs, as only those aspects that are important for the organization are trained rather than the entire program. The vhs Offenbach will be happy to prepare an individual offer for the target group to be trained.
Please get in touch with:
Birgit Gehl, Phone: 069 8065-3822
E-mail: birgit.gehloffenbachde
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OF Education Office
Volkshochschule Offenbach
Berliner Straße 77
63065 Offenbach
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