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Looking for a new start? Children’s daycare is your future!

Get information here on lateral entry into your new dream job.

Letzte Aktualisierung: 03.07.2025

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General requirements: Who is qualified to get started?

Degree / training: You have a college degree or have completed vocational training of at least level DQR-4 – German Qualification Framework). (Find out on the website www.dqr.de under “Qualification search”.)

Experience: You have documented proof of at least two years of experience in an area that could contribute to one or more educational fields. This experience could comprise professional practice in areas such as teaching, medicine, psychology, home economics, family care, nature, the environment or agriculture. Other alternatives include practical professional or non-professional work in music, art, handicrafts or textile design as well as teaching practice in areas such as sports, nutrition, languages, media, mathematics, technology, culture or religion. Regardless of which specific field you have experience in, the important thing is your ability to put your skills and knowledge to use so as to contribute to and enhance the educational work at a children’s daycare centre.

What categories of educational work are involved?

Body, health, movement

Language(s), drawing, writing and communication

Mathematics, natural sciences and technology

Culture, society and democracy

Ethics, religion and philosophy

Education in art and aesthetics and media

 

What are the requirements?

Additional qualification: A certificate confirming completion of a state-certified qualification in the field of early childhood education, care and rearing (480 hrs.).

Period of professional practice: Obtain at least 500 hours of experience (supervised by a professional educator) in a children’s daycare centre, thus integrating theory and practice.

Contact & further information

Regarding support and qualifications offered in your area, please contact the competent office for children’s daycare centres at the Youth Welfare Office in your district.

Tips and information

Tip: Your application should emphasize how your professional or non-professional experience qualifies you to contribute to and enhance the educational work in one or more of the six fields of education at a children’s daycare centre!

Information: The representatives of the individual children’s daycare centres are responsible for hiring of lateral entrants based on the applications submitted.

Certified providers of continuing education courses

Zertifizierte Weiterbildungsträger

Weiterführender Link zum Angebot

VHS Bad Segeberg

Information on the Adult Education Centre (VHS) courses is provided HERE or on page 23 in the VHS course catalog (edition of 10 Sept. 2024)

If you have any questions please contact the continuing education representative directly. Contact information is provided HERE.

VHS Husum

VHS Geesthacht

VHS Henstedt Ulzburg

VHS Kiel

VHS Neumünster

IBAF Rendsburg

Link to information on course date

If you have any questions please contact the continuing education representative directly. Contact information is provided HERE.

Berufsausbildungs- und Qualifizierungsagentur Lübeck

Lateral Entry Kita (children’s daycare) – Qualification for an assistant position in a children’s daycare centre (acc. to PQVO – Personnel Qualification Regulation)

If you have any questions please contact the continuing education representative directly.

DAA Deutsche Angestellten-Akademie GmbH

DAA Deutsche Angestellten-Akademie GmbH - Quereinstieg Zweitkraft Kita

If you have any questions please contact the continuing education representative directly.

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