Leistungen A-Z

I. The following forms must be used and submitted for your application for recognition of a foreign professional teaching qualification as a teaching qualification:

1. Application for recognition of a foreign teacher qualification

2. Declaration on the application – information on an application in other federal states, compensatory measures taken

You can also submit the application for recognition via the Point of Single Contact in the State of Brandenburg.

II. The following forms must be used and submitted for your informal written application to participate in a compensatory measure:

1. Appendix "Declaration of state of health"

2. Appendix "Information on data processing"

These forms can be found on the homepage under the link: https://mbjs.brandenburg.de/bildung/lehrerin-lehrer-in-brandenburg/anerkennung-von-abschluessen/auslaendische-lehrerqualifikationen.html

The activity as a teacher is regulated. This means that you must prove that you have a specific qualification if you want to work as a teacher in Germany without restrictions. To prove a foreign qualification, you can apply for recognition of your professional qualification.

In the recognition procedure, the competent authority compares your professional qualification from abroad with the professional qualification in the selected federal state. For recognition, your professional qualification must be equivalent.

You can also apply for the procedure from abroad.

In order to work as a teacher, you must meet other requirements in addition to the equivalence of your professional qualification. In most cases, you do not have to prove these requirements until you are hired as a teacher. That's a different procedure.

• You have a professional qualification as a teacher from abroad.
• You want to work as a teacher in the chosen federal state.
    

In order to be recruited to the teaching profession, you must meet additional requirements:

• You have German language skills at the required language level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). The competent authority will inform you about the required language level.
• Personal aptitude: You are reliable for working as a teacher and have no criminal record.
• Health suitability: You are healthy.

• Application form of the competent authority
• If there is no application form: An informal and signed application
• Proof of identity (passport or identity card)
• Marriage certificate (if your name has changed due to marriage)
• Curriculum vitae
• Proof of your professional qualification (e.g. references, certificates, professional certificates)
• Proof of content and duration of your education (e.g. Diploma Supplement, Transcript of Records, Study and Examination Regulations)
• Proof of your other qualifications (e.g. professional training, seminars)
• Proof of your professional experience as a teacher
• Information about an application for recognition that has already been submitted. Then indicate to which office you submitted the application. If you have already received a notification of your application for recognition from the other body, please also submit this document.
• Perhaps: Declaration or proof that you want to work in the profession in the chosen federal state. Evidence is, for example, applications for a job.

The competent authority will tell you which documents you must show in the original or submit as a copy. Some copies must be officially certified. We recommend that you do not send originals by post.

You must present your documents in German. The translations must be made by publicly appointed or authorized translators.

Other documents are usually important for employment in the teaching profession. You do not have to hand in these documents until you take a compensatory measure or when you are hired as a teacher.
  

• Proof of your German language skills: Language certificate
• Proof of your personal suitability:
  Extended certificate of good conduct from Germany or your country of origin (e.g. extract from the criminal record, Certificate of Good Standing) not older than three months at the time of application
• Proof of your health suitability (only for the compensatory measure): written personal declaration
• Proof of vaccination or immunization against measles or vaccination intolerance by medical certificate if you were born after 31.12.1970.

You do not have to pay any fees for the procedure in the state of Brandenburg.

However, additional costs may arise (e.g. for translations or certifications of your documents). These costs vary from person to person and are to be borne by you.

You submit an application to the competent authority. You can send the application by mail, send it electronically, or drop it off in person. The competent authority will inform you.

The competent authority receives the application. It will confirm to you after a maximum of one month that the application has arrived. When the competent authority has received all the documents from you, it will process your application. The competent authority then checks: Is your professional qualification equivalent to the professional qualification in your federal state? In doing so, the competent authority compares the qualifications with the help of certain criteria. Important criteria are, for example, the duration of the training, the content of the training and the number of subjects taught. The competent authority shall also take into account your professional experience, other qualifications and qualifications in the equivalence test.

If your professional qualification and the professional qualification in the chosen federal state are equivalent, you will receive recognition.

Sometimes there are significant differences between professional qualifications. Most of the time, if there are significant differences, you can make a compensatory measure.
  

There are various compensatory measures:

• Adaptation period: You work as a teacher and perhaps do additional training. This means, for example, that you take part in courses at a university.
• Aptitude test: You will take lesson samples and oral exams. A teaching rehearsal means: You conduct lessons with students. Examiners observe and assess your lessons. The competent authority will inform you about necessary teaching samples and examinations.

In most cases, you can choose between an adaptation period or an aptitude test. Sometimes the competent authority decides which compensatory measure you should complete. The competent authority will inform you.

If you successfully complete the compensatory measure, you will receive recognition of your foreign teacher professional qualification as a teaching qualification.

With the recognition, you can apply for the school service in your state. This is a separate procedure. If you meet all the requirements, you will receive the teaching qualification. The teaching qualification is always valid for the requested teaching profession. This means that you can teach your subjects at a specific school. You have the same professional rights as a person with a German professional qualification.

In some cases, recognition of a professional teaching qualification as a teaching qualification is not possible. This is the case if:

- the application documents are not submitted in full by you within a certain period of time despite being requested to do so by the competent authority,

- you do not have a completed teaching qualification in your country of training, which was acquired at a university or comparable educational institution and entitles you to practise the profession of teacher in the state of training in at least one of the subjects approved for the desired teaching profession, or

- the substantial differences found cannot be compensated.

Depending on the federal state, there are various ways to work as a teacher without recognition, e.g. at a private school. The competent authority will inform you of the details.

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Sometimes documents are still missing in the procedure. The competent authority will then inform you by when you have to submit the documents.

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the State of Brandenburg

Unit 45: Teacher training, assessment and recognition of professional qualifications for teachers

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• There are many counselling services. These can be found on the Recognition in Germany portal.
• Let yourself be pampered by an IQ counselling centre
  personally advise you on this procedure and your qualifications. The advisors will also help you with your documents before submitting your application. The consultation is free of charge.
• You can also call the hotline of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. The hotline will answer your questions on the subject of "Working and living in Germany".
  Phone Number: +49 30 1815-1111
  Hours:
  Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. (CET)

• Counselling services on the Recognition in Germany portal
• Counselling at an IQ counselling centre

• Section 13 (3) of the Brandenburg Teacher Training Act – BbgLeBiG
• Teacher Qualification Recognition Ordinance – LQAV
• For the comparison to teacher training in the state of Brandenburg - § 2 Brandenburg Teacher Training Act - BbgLeBiG
• § 3 Brandenburg Teacher Training Act – BbgLeBiG
• Teacher Training Study Ordinance – LSV
• § 5 Brandenburg Teacher Training Act – BbgLeBiG
• Regulations for the preparatory service

Opportunities to work as a teacher without recognition

There are different ways to work as a teacher without recognition. Exactly what options you have also depends on which state you want to work in. The competent authority will inform you.

Opportunities for working as a teacher without recognition are, for example:

• Working as a substitute teacher
• Working at a private school
• Working at International Schools
• Instruction in the language of origin (mother tongue)
• Working in preparatory classes and remedial classes (e.g. German as a foreign language – DaF or German as a second language – DaZ)
• Work outside of a school (e.g. in adult education)

• Financial aid for the recognition procedure
• Publicly appointed translators in Germany
• Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
• Information on the recognition of foreign professional qualifications on the Recognition in Germany portal
• Information on the Point of Single Contact
• Points of Single Contact in Germany

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the State of Brandenburg