Here's how Berlin high school is different than American high school and also me in Austria
I have worked at a school for about four months, which means I've learned a thing or two about the German school system (or at least the Berlin school system). Inside the classroom, it does not seem so different from what I experienced as a student. Children all around the world are the same. But as an English teaching assistant, I am observing plenty of differences from the U.S. in how the school year and day are organized. The School Day The school that I work at has block scheduling, meaning students have specific classes 1-3 times a week for either 1 hour and 20 minutes or 40 minutes. There is also block scheduling in the U.S., but it's not as common as in Germany. Like most high schools in the U.S., students travel around to different classrooms and different teachers. With block scheduling, most teachers are only teaching a few classes a day in 1-2 subjects, and many teachers even have a weekly day off. In the U.S., in my high school the vast majority of teachers, especi...