Career and Study Guidance (CSG)
At BCS, vocational orientation begins in primary school with the aim of not preparing children for exams or tests, not competing against each other for the best grades, but working together as a team to find knowledge and solutions to questions and new issues, asking questions, making mistakes, learning from them and being curious – all the things that are known in ‘adult life’ as soft skills and a dynamic mindset.
Dr. Martina Heinrich
BCS career and study counsellor, school psychologist
email • Overview of competences
CSG Focus
BCS Primary School
- Dynamic mindset
- Learner profiles / personality development / soft skills
- Media competence
- Self-discovery in the afternoon programme (strengths/interests)
The BCS BSO team helps our students to apply to colleges, universities or vocational training programmes all over the world. We offer information events and career guidance programmes to support individual decision-making processes.
Year 6
- Forest day at the extracurricular learning centre ‘Waldschule Prenden’
- Taster day in companies/businesses/scientific institutions
- Business subject from year 6
Secondary level I
- Work placements in all year groups
- Year 7: one-week company internship
- Year 8: one-week company work placement
- Year 9: two-week work placement according to the Berlin framework curriculum
- Year 10: one-week work placement with a focus on ‘social professions / social commitment’
- Embedding CSG-relevant topics in the subject curriculum
- From year 9: Economics as a compulsory elective subject
- BVBO workshops in co-operation with mehralslernen eV.
- Training fairs
- Career Day – in-house fair in cooperation with Friends of Cosmo
- Girls‘ & Boys’ Day as part of the BCS MINT school profile
- Science Day as part of the BCS MINT school profile
- Extracurricular learning centres, including the Glass Laboratory Book
- Permanent information and counselling service for pupils and parents
- Individual course choice counselling
Secondary level II
- Alumni meeting at the Nature Campus Müggelsee extracurricular learning centre
- BVBO workshops in co-operation with mehralslernen eV.
- Job/training fairs
- Career Day – in-house fair in cooperation with Friends of Cosmo
- Girls‘ & Boys’ Day as part of the BCS MINT school profile
- Extracurricular learning centres, including the Glass Laboratory Book
- Year 11: Educational trip to Frankfurt/Main in the subject of economics
- Parents’ evenings in cooperation with the youth employment agency ’Paths after the Abitur’
- Information events for students and their parents on admission procedures and deadlines
- Individual counselling sessions with the youth employment agency
- Individual counselling sessions with the BCS student advisor
- Individual application training and scholarship search
The BCS CSG Team
Yvonne Wende
Managing Director, founder of BCS
Contact via Nataliya Karl
Kathrin Röschel
School Principal
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Lars Busse
Study and careers counsellor at the Berlin Mitte Youth Employment Agency
Contact via Mrs. Dr. Heinrich
Dr. Erika Nehnevajova
Sixth form coordinator (individual counselling sessions with year 10 on course selection for the Abitur)
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Katharina Ehrenfried
Ersamus+ programmes
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Iordanis Foutsitzoglu
Teacher for economics (student internships, stock market simulation game, school trips and school excursions focussing on economics)
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Robin Williams
Teacher of ethics (internships with a focus on ‘social professions/social commitment’)
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Nataliya Karl
Assistance to the GF Organisation of the taster days in the 6th grade, TEDxYouth@BerlinCosmopolitanSchool, support in the organisation of the BVBO workshops and the parents’ network ’Friends of Cosmo’
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