Author: Lucas Herrmann
Übersicht, Geschichte
(Beschreibung der Universität, der Stadt, des Landes)
Huelva is a small and very unkown city in the southeast of Spain/Andalucia. It is located between two rivers the Rio Tinto and the Rio Odiel. This two rivers flow in the sea. The coast is 15 minutes from the citycenter by bus. The coast is located along the Gulf of Cadiz. The next big city is Sevilla. Sevilla is about 100 km far away. It is the capital of Andalucia. Also to the portuguese city Faro is only 100km far away. In Huelva live about 150 000 people. Instead of the other citys of Andalucia are in this city less tourists. The most important sector is the chemie-industry. The port of Huelva is one of the biggest in whole Spain. It is divided in two sectors, the inner port and the outer port. The port is also one reason why is the industry is very important in this city. In the 1755 was the earthquace from Lisboa. After this earthquace nearly all of the historical monuements were destroid. Because of the ironmines from Rio Tinto there where a big british influnce in the city. Also nowadays there is a british quarter where you can see typical british houses. The most famous happening of Huelva is that Christopher Columbus started his journey to America. In and around the city you can see a lot of monunements and statues from Christopher Columbus and even his boats.
The "Universidad de Huelva" is divided into three parts: El Carmen, La Rapida and La Merced. For studying education you have to go to El Carmen. El Carmen is outside of the citycenter. You need about 25 min by bus or 40 min by foot or 20 min by bike. You can borrow a bike at the university for one semester. In Huelva are about 10 000 students and about 300 Erasmusstudents.
Vergleich des Ausbildungssystemes und des Studiums
I had in Huelva 4 courses, a teacherpracticum and a spanish course. For every course I got 6 ECTS credits. For the spanish course I got 4 credits. All the courses I visited were in english. To get your marks was very easy. We didn´t had any exams; only homeworks. The courses were also much more easier instead of the courses we have at the "Pädagogische Hochschule. At the PH we also have no course with 6 ECTS-credits. In Austria it is much more complicated and you have much more work to do for your credits.
The spanish grading system is also different to the system of Austria. In Spain they have the grades from 1 to 10; 10 is the best and 1 is the worst; with 5 you pass.
Lehrveranstaltungen
General Didactics
In this course we learned something about different methods of teaching.
Creativity and Learning
There we learned to focus as a teacher on the talents of the students.
Curriculum Making
At Curriculum Making we discuss about the different school systems over europa and the advantages and disadvantages about it.
In the courses Creativity and Learning, General Didactics and Curriculum Making we discuss in small groups. For this we had to go to the office of our professor between 10 am and 2 pm and talked with him about different topics. After that we got an email with his blog. This blog we had to read and comment.
Intercultural Education
This subject was my favourite subject. Unfortunately the teacher couldn´d speak english very good. At this subject we learned a lot of different cultures. We also learned how to teach in a class with a lot of different languages and cultures. To get our mark we had to read the book "I´m Malala" and to write a 10 pages portfolio about intercultural education.
Teacher Practicum
Teaching for ten days in a Spanish school was very interesting for me. I learned a lot of the Spanish school system. It was very interesting to compare a Spanish school and the Austrian schools. I also had the luck that I could see more classes and not only one. The most time I helped the teacher of Pedagogica Terapeutica but fortunately I also visited other classes with different subjects and a different age of children.
The main thing difference between Austria and Spain was the relationship between the pupils and the teacher/headmaster. A lot of pupils kissed their teachers or the headmaster at the morning; even on the mouth. Nobody could imagine this in Austria. If I would do this the police would catch me. On the one hand I was a little bit shocked when I saw this but on the other hand I recognized that the teachers have a very good relationship to their pupils. The students also have much more respect of their teachers. If the teachers say: “Silence!” The students are silent. In Austria this doesn´t work so well. I think this is also one reason because of the relationship between the pupils and their teachers.
In Spain all the parents have to wait outside in front of the school before and after the school. In Austria a lot of parents go with their children into the classroom. I prefer the Spanish system. It is annoying that all the time, especially in the morning, are so much parents in the classroom.
One thing I really couldn’t understand was the school bell. This bell was so amazing loud it started hurting in my ears. In the most schools in Austria we don’t have a bell anymore. The teachers stop the class by him and this system works very well. One teacher used whistle in the big break if one child made nonsense. It was like in the military.
What I missed in the Spanish school was something to play during the break. They only could run at the cement ground. The children had no ball or something else to play.
The pedagogica therapeutica was very interesting for me. I really recognized in the first lesson that the teacher loves her work. She had a lot very good tasks for the children. There was a lot of material. The most of them the teacher made it by herself. I also got some Ideas because of the material. Because of all this material and the room I was a little bit jealous. On the other hand I have to say sometimes we played with the children for one or two hours learngames on the computer. That was so boring. There is so much good material in the classroom and we worked with the computer…
As I said I also spend some hours in other classes. Sometimes I was really shocked. I talked with some teachers and they weren´t able to speak English. Some English teacher students had a very bad pronunciation.
In some classes the way of teaching was so boring. The teacher tells the children arithmetic and they had to write it down and calculate. Everybody the same! There was no creativity, there was no individuality. Because of that a lot of children become very loud, of course because they were very bored. At one arts class I visited all the children had to draw exactly the same picture. I really didn’t understand it. What is the aim of this lesson? Why they didn´t get a topic and they can draw what they want and have to explain it. It would be much better for the creativity of the children. I also saw lessons where I could figure out very quickly that the teachers really love their job. They thought in a very friendly and creativity way. These teachers had also some interesting ideas.
All in all it was a very interesting and exciting period during my Erasmus-time. I learned a lot! It was good to get in touch with another education system.
Anmeldeprozesse
(Onlineanmeldung,Applicationform, Learningagreeament)
At the webside of the university I checked the english courses and talked about it with my coordinators from Austria. I only had to talk 5 courses because for every course you get 6 ECTS credits. The austrian coodrinators sent it to spain and then I got the conformation from Huelva.
In Huelva I had to fill out once again the applicationform. Unfortunately I had to change one course because the choosen one didn´t exist anymore. I send the new application to Austria and get the conformation. From the internation office in Huelva I got a date for my registration. After one month(!) I was an official student of the University of Huelva.
Kontaktinformationen
Information of the university
Universidad de Huelva
Dr. Cantero Cuadrado, 6. 21071 Huelva, Spain
Website: http://www.uhu.es/index.php
Phone number: 959 218000
Information of the Coordinator of the International Office
Name: Isabel Leandro
Servicio de Relaciones Internacionales
Universidad de Huelva
Email: drinter02@sc.uhu.es
Phone number: 959219494
Pab. 13_Juan Agustín de Mora
Campus del Carmen
21071 Huelva, Spain
Unterkunft
I lived in a shared appartment with two girls from Costa Rica. The girls could speak english but I only wanted to talk with them in spanish so I could improve my spanish very well. I found the shared appartment on the internet but the international office also offers a lot of accomodations. In the most cases the international students live for two or three nights in the youth hostel. In this period they are looking with the adress from the international office for an accomodation. In the most cases the rent is 150€ per month.
Leben
The live in Spain in general is cheaper. For a beer for example you pay 1,5€. Also the bus tiket is much cheaper as in Graz. For one way you pay 1,1€. A coffee you get for 1€. Also traveling by bus to a different city is much cheaper. If you want to travel around in spain you should go by "Blabla-car" it´s like the Mitfahrgelegenheit in Austria or Germany. Blabla-Car is very popular in Spain.
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