As of: February 23, 2024, 3:00 p.m
By: Melina Staar
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There is a major shortage of skilled workers in daycare centers.
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The district education center offers training to become a supplementary worker.
This is intended to be a contribution to combating the shortage of skilled workers in daycare centers.
Bad Tölz – There is a desperate need for childcare staff everywhere.
Additional staff should bring relief.
The Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district education center offers a course on this.
“A teaching assistant is the equivalent of a childcare worker in Bavaria,” explains course leader Melanie Salem when asked.
While nannies usually attend child care school after graduating from school at the age of 16 or 17, the training of supplementary staff is aimed at people with previous professional experience.
The course is designed as part-time training
In the course in Bad Tölz, the participants learn in six units a lot about their personal role and attitude that one should have, legal matters, quality of interaction, educational partnership with parents, the correct documentation using observation forms and the area of education and learning.
The course is designed as part-time training.
“The participants already have a job in a crèche, an after-school care center or a large day care center,” says Salem.
The connection between theory and practice is particularly important.
There are tasks that the participants should try out in their work and then report on them in the next course.
“We have had very good success with this,” says Salem.
Once the course starts, participants can receive the salary of a nanny
She is excited to see the development of the participants.
“We have had people who have worked in lunchtime care for 20 years, then took the course for six months and made huge progress.”
Once the course starts, participants can receive the salary of a nanny.
“That makes the training interesting,” says Salem.
It is fair to pay these people accordingly because they already have to prove training and professional experience.
The minimum age to be trained as a supplementary worker is 21 years.
Another requirement is that you have either already attended the previous module or, as a career changer, can provide evidence of at least two years of non-relevant vocational training.
Anyone who has completed training as a curative education nursing assistant, successful further training as a “supplementary worker for primary school childcare” or has completed a non-relevant degree can also take part.
Participants need 800 hours of relevant practical experience
All participants also need to have at least a secondary school diploma, demonstrate 800 hours of relevant practical experience (this can be in a daycare center, full-time, after-school care, lunchtime care) and have sufficient German language skills.
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The training for supplementary staff was developed in order to obtain a quick solution to the staffing problems at daycare centers.
But quick is misleading.
The course lasts one year, plus the required previous experience.
Nevertheless: “It makes a big contribution.” If you would like to continue your training afterwards, you can add further modules to the supplementary training course.
Younger participants in particular would like to take advantage of this, says Salem.
She herself studied social pedagogy and worked in child and youth welfare.
Since 2022 she has been an educational quality advisor and offers coaching for daycare centers.
In 2023 she began further training to become a supplementary worker.
The Augsburg woman is offering the course for the first time in Bad Tölz.
There are still places available.
Further information is available online at www.kbw-toelz-wor.de.