Teacher Training & Classroom Management
German Language Course for Teachers in Bremen: Beginners (A1–A2)
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Erasmus+ eligible
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Teacher Training & Classroom Management
German Language Course for Teachers in Bremen: Intermediate (B1–B2)
Your German is good enough for everyday life. This week in Bremen takes it further: following a talk, joining a discussion, explaining your work and writing with confidence — in class every morning, and in the city every afternoon.
Duration5 days · 25 hrs
LanguageGerman (start around B1)
Group sizeMax 20
CertificateAttendance+ Europass Mobility
FundingErasmus+ eligible
AudienceTeachers and education staff with intermediate German (around B1)
Available at
Bremen
· on request
Why this is Erasmus+ eligible
Structured, multi-day programme (5 days) with a pre-defined schedule and learning outcomes — not a passive lecture format.
Built around interaction: participants engage directly with the trainer and with peers from other countries throughout the course.
Transnational by design — open to participants travelling from outside the host country, a core requirement of Erasmus+ mobility funding.
The Erasmus+ Programme Guide states that “The lack of language competences is one of the main barriers to participation in European education, training and youth programmes” (Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026, Part A – Important features of the Erasmus+ Programme, Multilingualism, p. 12), and lists among the objectives of Key Action 1 mobility in school education “supporting professional development of teachers, school leaders and other school staff” and “building capacity of schools to engage in cross-border exchanges and cooperation, and carry out high quality mobility projects” (Part B – Key Action 1, Mobility for pupils and staff in school education, Objectives of the action, p. 103). For teachers who already use some German, this week in Germany builds the confidence to work in it — with German-speaking partner schools, on job-shadowing visits, and with German-speaking families — and ends with a self-assessment in the Council of Europe's wording and a personal plan for the months after.
Overview
You can already talk about everyday things in German. But a fast conversation, a discussion about school or a formal email is still hard. This week in Bremen is for teachers around B1 who want to take the next step — and use their German every day in the city, not only in class.
- Monday — understanding: a talk and a walk through the city in German, and an article about education.
- Tuesday — discussing: giving your opinion, agreeing and disagreeing, and keeping up when people speak fast.
- Wednesday — speaking at length: describing your work and your school, and answering questions.
- Thursday — writing: emails and a short text about your work, in the right tone.
- Friday — summarising: reporting a discussion and what you found out in the city to the whole group.
You go home with a self-assessment of your German in the European framework’s words and a plan to keep improving in the three months after the course.
Description
Many teachers learned German at school, at university or from family, and can get by. Then a German colleague speaks fast, a meeting starts, or a formal email has to be written, and it is suddenly much harder.
The Council of Europe’s language framework (the CEFR, updated in 2020) describes the next step. At B2, a person “can account for and sustain their opinions in discussion by providing relevant explanations, arguments and comments”. This week works towards that, with education topics — school, students, teaching — so the German you practise is the German you need at work.
Every morning you work in a small group with your trainer, only in German. Every afternoon you use it in Bremen: following a walk through the old town in German and taking notes, reading local news and discussing it, asking a few people in the street a short question for a small survey, and finding out something in the city to report back to the group.
One week does not change your level, and nobody will tell you it does. So the week ends with a plan: what you will practise in the next three months, and how you will know it is working.
If your German is still very basic, our German Language Course for Teachers in Bremen: Beginners (A1–A2) starts from zero.
Methodology
Only German, every day
the week is taught in German; the trainer helps with simpler German, not with translation.
Class in the morning, Bremen in the afternoon
every day has one task in the city that uses the morning's skill with real people and real texts.
Education topics
discussions, texts and talks are about school and teaching, so the vocabulary is the vocabulary you need.
The framework as a map
each day names the Council of Europe scales it works on; you read the B1 and B2 rows with the trainer to see where you stand.
What you'll take home
Follow a talk or guided walk in German, take useful notes, and check what you missed.
Take part in a discussion in German: give and defend your opinion, and ask when people speak too fast.
Describe your work and your school in German, clearly and in detail after preparing it, and answer questions.
Write professional emails and a short text about your work in German, in the right tone.
Summarise a discussion or something you found out, for people who were not there.
A self-assessment of your German in the Council of Europe's wording, and a three-month plan to keep improving.
Daily programme
- Icebreaker: “Mein Weg zum Deutschen” — in pairs, participants tell each other how and where they learned German, and one situation where it was not enough
- The map for the week: the CEFR and its 2020 Companion volume; the trainer reads the B1 and B2 rows with the group, and each participant notes where they stand today, on one sheet, kept for Friday
- Listening: a short talk on an education topic, main idea first and then details, and note-taking when the speaker is fast
- Reading an article about education: the main argument, and the difference between facts and opinion
- City task: a walk through the old town led in German by the trainer; participants take notes and compare them afterwards
- Output: your notes from the talk and the walk, and a short summary of the article
- Warm-up: “Zwei Wahrheiten, eine Lüge” — each participant says three things about their school in German, one of them false; the group asks questions and argues about which one is the lie
- Giving and defending an opinion — the B1 and B2 rows of Informal discussion: the language of opinions, reasons and examples, and how to disagree politely
- When people speak fast: how to enter a discussion, ask someone to slow down or repeat, and check what you understood
- Discussion rounds in small groups on school topics, with a new group and a new topic each round
- City task: reading a short piece of local news in German and discussing it in a café
- Output: a personal list of discussion phrases you have really used
- Describing experience at B2: what makes a description clear and detailed rather than a list
- Preparing a three-minute talk about your school, your work or one project that worked — or did not
- Talks in small groups, with questions; a colleague gives feedback on what was clear and what needed more detail
- City task: a short survey — in pairs, participants ask a few passers-by one simple question they have prepared together, if they are happy to answer
- Output: your talk notes, your colleague's feedback and your survey answers
- Professional emails in German: formal and less formal forms of address, clear requests, polite reminders
- A short text about your work — for example a paragraph for a school website or a report on this week so far — with clear structure and linking words
- Checking your own text: the mistakes intermediate writers make most often
- City task: finding out one practical thing in the city — an opening time, a service, a way to get somewhere — to report tomorrow
- Output: two emails and a short text, revised after a partner's feedback
- Opening session — reporting back: how to note what a group decided and pass it on fairly — what the framework calls acting “as rapporteur in a group discussion” — practised in a short group discussion about the week
- Reports from the city: each pair reports the result of their survey and what they found out on Thursday, in two minutes
- Your self-assessment: Monday's sheet beside the week's work — where you stand now, in the framework's words
- Your three-month plan: what you will practise, how often, with what material, and with whom
- Output: your self-assessment and your plan
- Course evaluation and feedback
- Certificate ceremony
Please note: sessions run from 09:30 to 15:00, Monday to Friday, with a break for lunch. Timings can shift a little to suit the venue and the group. If you'd like a specific topic covered, let us know when you apply — the confirmed day-by-day schedule is sent to registered participants ahead of the course.
Certificate: we issue the Certificate of Attendance to everyone who's present for at least 80% of the course — tracked with the daily sign-in sheet (see Certificate & assessment).
Equipment: a few of our courses ask participants to bring a laptop — check the day-by-day programme above, or ask us if you're not sure.
Need a formal invoice or proforma for your school's records? Ask us — we issue official invoices with the participant's name and course details.
Course page last updated: 27 September 2026
Materials & tools
Your own free copy of the Companion volume, downloaded from the Council of Europe on Day 1, with a one-page map of the scales this week uses
Short talks and articles on education topics, chosen by the trainer
City task cards and a survey sheet
The self-assessment sheet, filled in on Monday and rewritten on Friday
A three-month practice plan template
Your notes, talk, emails and texts — written by you during the week
Certificate & assessment
This is a Certificate of Attendance, not an exam-based qualification — recognition comes from completing the structured programme, not from passing a test. The real, lasting value is in the competencies listed above under What you'll take home.
Type your name above — clearly marked "SAMPLE" in the PDF, not an official document.
The real certificate is signed by your trainer and EMA's authorised signatory. Your own signature isn't on this document — it's captured separately, on the Europass Mobility document.
Need to verify a real certificate? Check it online using the serial number and participant's full name, or contact us directly — [email protected], OID E10304561.
Attendance
Tracked using a sign-in sheet with one signature per participant per day (paper or digital). This record is used to issue your Certificate of Attendance and Europass Mobility document. View sign-in sheet (PDF)
Output
Every participant leaves with a completed Dissemination & School Impact Plan — a step-by-step template for applying the course back at your school (see below).
Feedback
An end-of-course evaluation form is sent to every participant after the course ends — a chance to reflect on what you've learned and how you'll apply it, and it helps us keep improving the course for future participants.
Your paperwork
Keep your travel tickets, boarding passes and (if you used green travel) any related receipts — your school or National Agency may ask for these for their own Erasmus+ reporting.
How to prepare
There is nothing to study before the course. If you like, think of one project or lesson from your work that you could describe for three minutes.
Comfortable shoes are useful: every afternoon includes a short task in the city.
A phone is enough to download the Companion volume. Nothing needs to be installed and no account has to be created.
Practical information
Registration & documents
Not sure how registering works or what paperwork is involved? See our full Registration & Documents guide — from applying to your Certificate of Attendance, in one place.
Invitation letter
Need a formal invitation letter for your school or embassy? Request one — we send it within 2 business days. See a sample (PDF).
Learning Agreement
Prepared by our staff and sent to you and your school once your registration form is submitted — see what it looks like. See a sample (PDF).
Billing & invoicing
We issue official invoices/proformas with the participant's name and course details — ask us. Payment is due in full by bank transfer before the course start date. See a sample (PDF).
Airport transfer
Guidance on getting from the nearest airport to the venue is included in your welcome information.
Accommodation
We can recommend partner hotels close to the venue in the host city — ask us when you apply.
For your school / proposal
School impact
After completing this course, the participating staff member can transfer outcomes directly to their school: a short briefing for colleagues sharing the key takeaways, applying relevant tools or strategies from the programme in their own role, and inclusion of the course materials in the school's professional development resources — turning one person's mobility into a wider institutional gain that supports the school's Erasmus+ objectives. Use the Dissemination & School Impact Plan below to fill in your own — it saves as you go and can generate a one-page summary for your coordinator too.
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Write your answers in English — it keeps every teacher's plan consistent if your coordinator compares several.
Filling these in ties this plan to a specific mobility — useful if your coordinator collects plans from several courses/teachers.
Staff-room dissemination session
Step 1 of 5
Photos of the session or sign-in sheet are embedded straight into both PDFs — they aren't autosaved, so re-attach them if you reload this page. The link above IS autosaved.
If you're presenting, base it on the course materials — a summary slide for colleagues rarely needs more than 15–20 minutes.
Classroom or institutional application
Step 2 of 5
Name the real class, year group or school process you'll apply this to — not the course topic itself.
Institutional resource management
Step 3 of 5
Link to your school’s Erasmus+ objectives
Step 4 of 5
Give the admin a one-page summary: what the course delivered, the cost, how it feeds into the school plan, and the expected outcome.
Follow-up & impact check-in
Step 5 of 5
Your check-in date is before the planned application date in Step 2 — check-ins usually happen a few months after you've actually applied the course, so there's something real to report.
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After the course
Participants will receive their Certificate of Attendance and the co-signed Europass Mobility document.
Participants will complete a general course evaluation and event survey.
Participants will receive course materials, videos, photos, and PDF documents in both digital and print formats.
Follow-up support: an email group is created for idea exchange, self-evaluation materials are provided, and participants receive a follow-up check-in after 3 months — the end of your three-month plan, and a good moment to mark your German again.
Frequently asked
This course is an eligible training activity under Erasmus+ Key Action 1 (School Education Mobility) — the course fee, travel and subsistence fall within the eligible cost categories. Whether it is covered depends on your own project's approved grant agreement and your National Agency's rules; we provide all the invoices, attendance records and certificates your National Agency requires for reporting.
Around B1. A rough test: if you can talk about your work and everyday topics in simple German and understand a slow, clear talk, you are ready. The course is taught only in German. If your German is still very basic, our German Language Course for Teachers in Bremen: Beginners (A1–A2) starts from zero.
Absolutely — group bookings of 3+ from one school or organisation receive priority placement, and we can schedule a dedicated session for groups of 12 or more.
This course is currently offered only in Bremen. Tell us if you would like it at another centre and we will look into arranging it.
Tuition, all course materials, your Certificate of Attendance, and the co-signed Europass Mobility document. Flights, accommodation and travel insurance are booked separately — we send a vetted hotel list.
You can move to any later session free of charge. Cancellations made 30+ days before the start date receive a full refund; a reduced refund applies closer to the date — see our full Cancellation & Refund Policy for the exact schedule.
The Erasmus+ Programme Guide states that “The lack of language competences is one of the main barriers to participation in European education, training and youth programmes” (Erasmus+ Programme Guide 2026, Part A – Important features of the Erasmus+ Programme, Multilingualism, p. 12), and lists among the objectives of Key Action 1 mobility in school education “supporting professional development of teachers, school leaders and other school staff” and “building capacity of schools to engage in cross-border exchanges and cooperation, and carry out high quality mobility projects” (Part B – Key Action 1, Mobility for pupils and staff in school education, Objectives of the action, p. 103). For teachers who already use some German, this week in Germany builds the confidence to work in it — with German-speaking partner schools, on job-shadowing visits, and with German-speaking families — and ends with a self-assessment in the Council of Europe's wording and a personal plan for the months after. Frame it in your own project's terms — your National Agency's current call will confirm exactly how it applies.
Because the course does not stop at the classroom door. Every afternoon you use your German in the city — in a café, in the street, with real texts — and Bremen is our centre in Germany.
If you have no German or very little, choose German Language Course for Teachers in Bremen: Beginners (A1–A2). If you can already talk about everyday topics in simple German, choose this course.
€80/day€400 total · 5 days
Dates on request
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Request a date Cancellation & refund policyWhat's included
25 hours of training & materials
Certificate of attendance
Europass Mobility document
Half-day guided city tour with a local guide
Not included
International flights / travel to the host city
Accommodation
Travel & health insurance
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