📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Die Montessori Fördergemeinschaft Würzburg e.V. wurde im Jahr 1991 aus einer Elterninitiative heraus gegründet. Sie ist als Trägerverein gemeinnützig anerkannt. Die Fördergemeinschaft will die von Maria Montessori für die vorschulische und schulische Erziehung begründete pädagogische Arbeit pflegen, fördern und in eigener Trägerschaft Einrichtungen errichten und führen. Zur Montessori- Fördergeminschaft gehören seit 1991- Gründung der Montessori Schule Würzburg, und des Kinderhorts ,1997- Gründung des Kinderhauses und Eröffnung der ersten "Integrationsklasse", 2006 Gründung der Kinderkrippe in Zell/ Main, 2007 Gründung der Montessori- Fachoberschule ( MOS) und dann 2015 die Gründung des Waldkindergartens.
"Auf dem Weg auf dem die Schwachen sich stärken, ist der gleiche wie der, auf dem die Starken sich vervollkommnen". (Maria Montessori) Seit dem Schuljahr 1997/98 kooperiert die Montessorischule mit der Christophorusschule, einer Schule zur individuellen Lebensbewältigung. Eine Außenklasse mit 12 Kindern, sind auf verschiedenen Klassen der Montessorischule Würzburg verteilt. In diesen Klassen findet der Unterricht gemeinsam statt, die Sonderpädagog*innen der Christophorusschule bilden ein Team mit den Lehrkräften der Montessorischule. Bisher waren die Freiwilligen immer in der Montessori- Grund und Mittelschule eingesetzt.
The beneficial community of Montessori was founded in 1991 by a parent initiative. It is accredited as a non -profit supporting association. The Beneficial community wants to support and cultivate the school and pre- school pedagogic work grounded by Maria Montessori, and to set it up and lead it in their own institution.
Institutions belonging to the Beneficial community of Montessori- the Montessori school Wuerzburg ( since the foundation in 1991, the children house and opening of the first integrated class in 1997, the day nursery (since 2006) and the specialized secondary school (since 2007) and the forest kindergarten group in 2015.
Main concern of the Montessori school for everyone is integration of children with disabilities.
“The way in which the weak ones strengthen themselves, is the same way, in which the strong ones improve themselves” (Maria Montessori) Since 1997/98 the Montessori school has been cooperating with the Christophorus school in Würzburg, a school for “life skills”. Twelve children from an external class are placed in different classrooms of the Montessori. There are the subjects taught for all children together, by a team of special pedagogues from the Christophorus school and teachers from the Montessori school.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will support the daily school live.The time has shown how good the different personalities of volunteers with their different competencies and interests were integrated into the community with children. Often the volunteers started first in the school to find out their pedagogical competencies, They can learn how to realize their talents, to use them and to develop selective offers for kids. The children and youngsters work mainly in the form of a free-activity, which means that they chose different materials and try to make up with then various tasks and things. The teachers have roles of tutors, they support the children and give them help when needed, More about volunteers live in Würzburg you can see on the blog: https://volunteersinwuerzburg.wordpress.com or https://freiwilligeninwuerzburg.wordpress.com/
🏠 Accommodation on site
The school is located in a suburb of Würzburg .The city of Würzburg is an attractive, easily understandable city with about 130 000 citizens. It offers a wide range of opportunities, how to spend one`s free time- culture, sport, shopping, pubs, events, fests and also good infrastructure. The accomodation for the volunteers is planned in a house belonging to the school 6 km from school and 12 km from Würzburg. You have a single room, share kitchen and bathroom with a 2. voluntreer.. You will get food money ( about 250 € a month) and a month ticket for the local transport
🎒 Leisure activities
We will offer German language course in small groups for the volunteers and we will have monthly meetings ( to build up a volunteers net, make trips, celebrate parties,.. with all the volunteers ( about 15 volunteers in and arround Würzburg). We also offer complementary activities in form of seminars and workshops for the volunteers in the topic of rassism, and migrationpaedagogic. The on arrival trainng and midterm meeting organised from the German NA is obligatory.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: The volunteer sholud be very motivated to work with children between 9 and 18 years. The school has a very open "free work" concept, that means that the volunteer should know that he /she is more a coach or supervisor, Good language knowledge either in German or English would be very helpfull. The school has a project called "Erdkinderplan", where the children work in a garden and renovate a house. In this project the volunteer will be/ can be also envolved
Deadline: Application deadline: 23/06/2021
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.