The Vocational School Waldkirch – |
Principal: H.Kleinböck (OstD) In the current school year about 650 full-time and 150 part-time students of the districts Emmendingen, Hochschwarzwald and Ortenau and the city Freiburg attend the BSZ Waldkirch (Vocational School Waldkirch). The 800 teenagers and young adults in 39 classes in 13 different school types are taught by 65 teachers. Our pedagogical motto is “learning for life”. It is warranted by the wide range of our school forms, which have an either economical, technical or social-pedagogical concentration. Our school has modern and substantial equipment in classrooms where theoretical and practical courses are taught. These modern and spacious facilities plus our motivated teachers provides a learning environment which is target-oriented and pleasant. |
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Our school types:
Wirtschaftsgymnasium / Sozialwissenschaftliches Gymnasium [Wirtschaftsgymnasium][Sozialwissenschaftliches Gymnasium] [Wirtschaftsoberschule] |
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Berufskolleg [Kaufmännisches BK] [Technisches
BK] [BK
Wirtschaftsinformatik] | ![]() |
Berufsfachschule | ![]() |
BEJ BVJ |
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]Occupational Part-Time School
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State-of-the-art equipment After intensive renovations and extensions over the last three years we now have pleasant and modern classrooms and specially equipped rooms such as our metal workshop. In October 2003 and November 2006 three business training firms were able to start off with special funding from the program “Zukunftsoffensive III – Förderung der beruflichen Bildung”. By the end of their schooling students will have worked in all of the different departments of their business training company. The business training companies simulate practically all of the commercial activities of a real firm for training and employability purposes. Three companies from the region support us in selling their products virtually. They help us in the simulation of commercial processes. The motto is “learning by doing”. New Media: In our metal workshop practically talented young people have the opportunity to professionalize their craft skills with metal processing modern machinery. | ![]() |
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Where do you go from here? Youth job counseling at the BSZ Waldkirch
Support and new challenges
Every year about 60 students at the BSZ Waldkirch start a year of orientation for their future job and adult life. Most of the time they start with new hopes, plans and ideas and a lot of good resolutions: “From now on everything will be better!” When asked what is supposed to change and how to go about it, most of the young people say: improving grades, changing my behavior and finding an apprenticeship position.
As a youth job counselor it is Mrs.Schnurr’s job at our school to find out in collaboration with the young people what will be the next useful step in their occupational career: An apprenticeship? Continuing school? An internship? An entrance qualification year (EQJ)? Vocational preparation courses?
Concrete start-up help is provided in a team effort by building trust in one-on-one coaching, talks with parents and conflict management talks.
Current version translated by Mr.Kersten and the class SG12 in the school year 2013/2014