Danish person here: The reason people think highly of you studying to become a teacher is because we know what a difficult profession it can be. And because it is so massively important for our society. Good luck Maya, I really hope you end up loving it.
Hvor er det godt at høre Maya! En bachelor er bare et helt andet niveau, fordi det er noget man selv har valgt. Det betyder meget. Jeg selv er ved at skrive min bachelor på UCL, professionshøjskolen i Odense, som socialrådgiver. Funfact - jeg er 54 og min søn studerer til pædagog på samme skole 🥰 Held og Lykke, du skal nok blive en fantastisk lærer 🙏
Hey, British guy, living in denmark here. I've done the whole Uni in Denmark thing, Its both refreshing and a little of a culture shock. Education and research in general is one of Denmarks best exports to be sure, well after bacon obviously :p. I wish you an awsome journey
@@pliashmuldba "Fucker du med mit grundvandet?", yeah, tis the downside of drinking groundwater with that amount of pig shit above. All pleasures in life have a drawback it would seem.
Agriculture represents 8% of the bnp, but lin reality ess because it's highly subsidised by the taxpayers. It's the pharmaceutical industry that makes the growth of the danish economy.
ChatGPT: A professional bachelor's degree (or professionsbachelor in Danish) is a higher education qualification that combines academic study with practical training, preparing students for specific careers. It typically lasts for three to four years and includes internships or hands-on learning experiences in fields such as nursing, teaching, engineering, social work, or business. Unlike a traditional academic bachelor's degree, which is more theory-focused, a professional bachelor's degree is designed to equip students with both the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed for specific professions. This type of degree is common in many European countries and often allows graduates to enter the workforce immediately upon completion or continue with further studies if desired. Good luck!
@@Likkivi I would guess because it was easier. I just looked it up. The only usable result was the Wiki article that explained what a bachelor is, and the specifics about the Professionsbachelor are buried deep down in it. Like, really deep down.
I ran into Maya on the bus to Århus, she was very pleasant to talk to and very nice. I didn't know that she was studying to become a teacher. Like the other Danes they mentioned I am also grateful for any new teachers we can get. I was myself a teacher but decided to change career. For me personally it was very stressful to be a teacher and the job was also quite ungrateful, students and parents can be very rude and I often had a feeling that people didn't admire or respect what did as a teacher, as if it is something easy that anyone can do. However there were also many positive experiences when you had connections with students and felt like they appreciated you and what you were doing. That's my experience but I don't want to discourage others from becoming a teacher because they might be better at dealing with those things than me and teachers are so important for our society. I just wish the rest of society would value and appreciate it as highly. I wish Maya the best of luck with becoming a teacher, I am sure she will do great.
Hvor er det godt gået, Maya! Enormt tillykke med at du er kommet i gang. Nyd det. Tro mig, denne del af dit uddannelsesliv kan ... hvis du går til det på en god måde ... blive nogle af de absolut bedste år af dit liv. Du får en chance for at fordybe dig, og gøre dig virkelig, virkelig dygtig på et område du elsker.
Being a teacher is Very important! It is the adult, our youth will interact with on a daily basis, and are almost as important as a parrent, in forming good humans, and smart adults later on! It can be a stressfull job as far as i know, i was a substitute teacher for a year, and being around young people all day requires a decent amount of patience! I think that the majority of teachers i've had throughout my life, has been people who really cared, and wanted to help form good people, which is why i respect that line of work so much! Good teachers, are a huge part, of forming a good society! Good luck with it maya! I hope you'll enjoy the process!
Congrats Maya! Im studying my 5th year at Aarhus Univsersity and it can be tough but also really fun - good luck. My Gf just finished her degree started teaching at Folkeskolen, its a really fun and rewarding job
Hey Maya, congratulations on starting your degree! Teaching is something that is always needed, especially in our current environment, and it is something I'm sure you will be good at, and have some interesting perspectives on, given your background. In regards to what term to use for your education, I would generally use university college or just college for any professionsbachelors programs and university for any academic bachelors programs. This is due to the term university being a protected title, only used by the 8 Danish universities.
Way to go girl 😊✌️ 🇩🇰/🇺🇸 You’re a shining golden example of what’s possible when you come to this little “Andegård” and just follow your talents. Denmark is so lucky to have you guys here 🙏🏼💙
Just to clear up the confusion. In Denmark (and Scandinavia) you are only in university if you go to a university and in Denmark there are only 8. KU, AU, AAU, SDU, RUC, ITU,DTU and CBS. The distinction is that you can only get a masters at University (with some odd ones out) and it is a science degree. As university is free in Denmark it is almost unheard of that you leave after getting your BA so for anyone who has attended university you can assume that they have a masters. I have a degree in English and History from KU, which means that I can technically teach High School and university level. I cannot teach folkeskole like what Maya is going to be, because it would demand a lot of subjects such as pedagogy, psychology and as others have said, practical experience. I have had one course and it is not even obligatory. I would need to get a teaching course on the side after acquiring a job as a teacher were I to ever get into teaching and none of it would ever make me fit to teach children XD
Congratulations Maya 🙏🏻🙏🏻I hope you’ll love being a teacher. Im a pedagogue and been working alongside teachers in schools and I loved it. It was my job to help the children with different issues so that the rest of the class could focus on the teacher and the children that I had sometimes had to learn in a different way because they had ADHD or other difficulties in their lives. And working with children is fantastic. And yes you have all been missed so I’m sending lots of sunshine you way from Sunny Spain where I live now as your going into the dark period in Denmark.
I'm so excited for you! It's fantastic you get to be in the classroom so early. I know multiple people who went through education in the USA and realized teaching wasn't for them when they did their internship at the end.
I was looking for a new video from you just a few days ago…thinking I had lost som YT algorithm battle, since I had not come across your latest installment….now I will sit and enjoy this video. This.
Hey Maya Judging from the videos I've watched, these yap-subjects will suit you perfectly. Being a retired teacher I really appreciate your enthusiasm. My years in the early 1970-es studying to be a teacher were some of the most memorable years of life.
Remember when Travelin' Young uploaded videos? Pepperidge Farm remembers... ;) Men seriøst, dejligt at se jer igen - og stort tillykke til Maya! Det lyder som den perfekte vej at gå for dig :D
I started following this channel when i was still in university and i have a piece of advice. It is no secret we have a heavy drinking culture in denmark, and i have seen friends as well as myself having struggled with alcohol addiction as it over the years become such commonplace that you don't notice the issue until you try to quit. So be very mindful of University and alcohol. You are in university, we don't do "college & university" it is not seperate here. Proffesionsbachelor is most often distinguished by the fact that it is 1 semester longer than a regular bachelor and this semester is spent interning.
Nice to see you again too =) And Maya, well done - from a US kid to a Teacher in Denmark, thats an awesome educational journey. I hope you have thought about the "going abroad" part of the education and that you will grab the "challenge" and go abroad during your Bachelor. It does not have to be in the US, but i imagine that US could be rather fun, especially if you still have friends there and places you can stay =D The Bachelor is a Bachelor - but I dont think there is a Master connected to "professions bachelor", those are educations specifically for a trade/profession, such as teacher (for those reading and not Danish, preschool and kindergartens are called Pædagog and they have a different bachelor education) - but also the Police have a "professions bachelor", and nurses, just to showcase some. All of which are taught at a different school than university (a college for professions, which are found many more places in DK than Universities). Never the less they end up with a bachelor, but one that is not really connected to a masters or PHD* - to go that route you would have to go to university. *You can connect a masters to your bachelor - but you would have to know what master to strive for as some have specific claims to how these bachelors can connect - like if you want a maters in didactics (A way to teach - what, how and why) you would need a bachelor in Danish (Uni) or other literary bachelors from Uni OR if you wanna use your "professions bachelor" then you have to have had Danish as an elective (Maya has English) and a bachelor project (the end assignment) with relevance to Danish and/or didactics - Which means you can pass your "professions bachelor" and still not qualify for a master - you need to have relevance from your end project towards that master along the right electives to be considered. Where as in Uni, if you go for a bachelors in Danish, then you can "just" acces this masters... So yes - It is a bachelor - but no - it does not necessarily make one qualified for a masters unless you had that in mind from the get go and made the "right" electives and the "right aim" at your end project to be considered at that specific master (masters = kandidatuddannelser)
Great video. I am sure you'll fit right in to the educational profession Maya. Keep your nose in the books and help our young students learn is an honorable profession.
Congratulations of starting at one of our Professionshøjskoler! :) I am working at UCN in Aalborg, and we equate ourselfes more and more to the European counterparts e.g., hoch fachschule in Germany, as a University of Applied Sciences. This has also something to do that we are basing our educations more and more on research work, something that started around 10 years ago. Moverover, there will be significant changes to the roles of Proffesionshøjskoler in Denmark soon with the educational reforms which most likely will introduce level 7 educations.
Many academics don't think about it, but school basic school is the most important school in life. As it makes the base of all learning. There would be no highschool or university without the base school.
Josh & family, you might not have considered it, but you really ought to visit the island of Bornholm sometime. It's unlike anywhere else in the country and known as the "Sunshine Island" for a reason, especially in the summer months. It's a wonderful and unique place to visit, especially since Maya was "cheated" out of going there on a school trip, as many Danish kids might at least once while growing up.
As a teacher in Denmark I am impressed that people are positive of your choice. I often hear “Why did you want to become a teacher?” But more like “why in the world would you want that!!!” I hope you will enjoy your studies and look forward to hearing about your first experiences of being a teacher.
Well congratulations with the start of the new education. I'm myself a folkeskolelærer, and i'm not going to lie, it can be so demanding and challenging. But it is also one of the MOST rewarding jobs I have ever experienced. Good luck 🤞
Congrats! It's a great education to get. Not only do you get your qualification to teach, you also have the opportunity later on to specialise further with a master's degree, so you've got a lot of options.
A "professionsbachelor" is indeed very much like a Bachelor's, but is usually designed to prepare you for work immediately after by having more focus on practical stuff or by simply adding on to the classic Bachelor's stuff with something like full-time internship. Although you can definitely stop studying and go work after a normal bachelor's, it's more common to continue with a Master's afterwards if you want to specialize. I personally took a "professionsbachelor" (in engineering) which had slightly more focus on group work and projects than the Bachelor's counterpart, and added a semester of internship as well, making it 3½ years instead of 3. I ended up taking a Master's afterwards anyway, which also worked out completely fine.
Very nice. Remember to join the student union - LL (lærerstuderendes landskreds). Being the chair in Hjørring gave me so many cool experiences, also on the national stage.
Glad you chose to try out becoming a teacher. Make sure you get to teach as fast as you can. Watching others teach only gets you so far, and you learn so much actually being the teacher. When I get interns I get them to teach from day one, if possible.
Kudos for following your ambition, despite the fact that professional bachelor isn't always recognised abroad. But that's most often something that you can explain your way through once you have a few years experience. And the Danish teacher's education isn't just some easy branch to pick up... you'll be a fully qualified pedagog and you'll know a whole bunch about psychology and conflict handling once you get your certificate. The salary may not exactly be fair compared to other educations here in DK, but it has a very high level of job security, because we urgently need teachers who have the patience to handle our spoiled kids. Best wishes!
History and religion may be considered yap subjects... To a native speaker English could be the same, but getting a grasp of the grammar/theory behind it might still be difficult. Because our kids are supposed to learn stuff like "I am, you are, he/she/it is... etc"... not least because in Danish it's a tad more simple: "jeg er, du er, han/hun/den/det er" our difficult grammar is somewhere else. Anyway, it's so important to choose subjects that you know well, and be motivated to be motivating... you need to become what's beyond the books say. Take the kids on a journey through time if you teach history, knowing the exact years isn't necessarily important, knowing the row of order is. I had great teachers in those subjects, my history teacher was an older bearded guy who wasn't afraid of suddenly acting to be a king or a warrior. And then there's my language teachers... for English I've been through a lady of British origin, a Dane that had spent 15 years in the US and a South African lady born from Danish parents. I don't know what my accent is, but the books were supposed to teach me British English... All I can say is that my can doesn't resemble my can't while I speak.. it's carn't. 🤷♂️
Good to see you again. I guess that your resolution to volunteer at Roskilde this year came to nought, with Maya's graduation and everything. Things have changed so much since my time in school. Nobody would have considered a lærerseminarium equivalent to a university. My teachers, save maybe the very youngest, were not students. You could get into the seminarium with just a realeksamen. This was no longer the case when I finished school, and realeksamen was abolished altogether three years later, in 1978. My brother was one of the last realists. As far as I know, the vocational high schools are not considered the equivalent of a university even today. They do not grant masters degrees, which is what a university does.
Fantastic. Congrats! I'm sure you'll be an excellent English teacher, Maya. The Teacher Education is a really good programme. I just recently finished it myself (also with English as my primary subject, and I even used the same excellent book you have in the thumbnail). 😊 You're quite right that the names of the institutions and degrees are very confusing. In some ways, I would say that the "professionsbachelor" is at a higher level than a regular bachelor's degree since it is four years rather than three and officially qualifies you for a profession, which a bachelor's degree does not. At the end, the title conferred is "Bachelor of Education" (B.Ed.). Using the same word ("højskole") for two very very different types of institutions is a little silly, I agree. In case you're interested in a little etymology, the word comes from the German "Hochschule", which is a general term for institutions of higher education and also encompasses traditional universities. In Danish, it is only used for university-type institutions as a compound noun (such as "professionshøjskole" as you said, "journalisthøjskole", or "handelshøjskole"). Used on its own, it can only mean a traditional højskole (also called "folkehøjskole"). Nobody would say that they "går på højskole" or "studerer på højskole" and mean a university-type institution. I hope you have a great time at college/university/professionshøjskole! 😅
Religion and history is actually a very exciting subject in and around Denmark. From being one of the most powerful countries in Europe to being almost wiped out, we're still here. Remember when you speak English that 5-10% of the words come from Danish (Norse). Many of the English "th" words are from Danish. The Vikings in England left a bigger mark. With the Vikings, modern religion starts, with it downs and ups. Good to see you moving on safely in life (career wise). You will probably end up in Copenhagen City Hall, in the education sector. I have a cousin that did that, not in CPH, but in Aarhus.
As you say, bachelors and proffessionsbachelors a considered the same academic level. The difference is, that professionsbachelors are considered to be finished with their education once they graduate. However a bachelor is more considered a step towards the following two-year master programme (which is then a higher academic level than bachelors and professionsbachelors)
Both bachelor (academic route) and professional bachelor are on the level 6 in Danish qualification skala :) (Uddannelses- og forskningsministeriet og UddannelsesGuiden)
Maya vil nu få hvad man før (også nu?) kaldte 'lærerseminariet' , som rigtigt nok er en 'college degree'. Held og lykke! Jeg har gjort¹ det samme. 1) Blot på CBC, civiløkonom.
Congrats Maya. I've been a teacher for 21 years now and we need passionate people. Just a heads up. There is a big difference between public schools and private schools. I have taught at both and would recommend teaching at a private school. If you need advice, I'm available. :)
I am American living in Denmark too and have found the Danish language to be very difficult for me to speak and hear. I can't imagine moving here in high school and going to Danish high school. Now I assume your university reading materials are in Danish, your lectures, most of your interactions. You seem to be totally fine with this but I'm just curious if you feel overwhelmed or even lost especially when at university level the vocabulary might be new when it comes to learning a new subject. I remember you said in high school most people talked in English to you but of course you must be fluent in Danish. I just am really impressed how effortless it seems for you and how it doesn't seem like the Danish language is causing you any extra stress.
Most of my social/personal conversations happen in English, as I’m just more comfortable in my first language. But yes all my classes and lectures are in Danish. There are definitely a lot of new words to learn but it feels like my classmates and I are all starting on the same level, as they also don’t know the academic vocabulary. So it’s actually ok. And everyone is always open to helping me if I need, and I’m not scared to ask. Help is important!! So it’s actually ok, new words but for now it’s good. We’ll see if I have the same answer when I’m writing my final paper 😅
Jeg læser også til lærer and I also have the book from the thumbnail haha. It's a bible for legit all essays you need to write haha Held og lykke med studiet. Det bliver så spændende!❤
Good luck at the professionsskole, Maya. 🙂 And sorry about the tooth, Miranda. I had a wisdom tooth pulled recently, and goodness, that went wrong. :-( I'm hoping your process was a better experience. ;-)
The idea with a professionsbachelor is also that a normal BSc (in stem fields especially) is often not worth much on it's own without the following masters. So even though it's often more narrow in what jobs open up, and it often takes a year longer due to the internships, it's still a more focused path if you know where you're going.
Awesomesauce! Virtual hi5 to Maya! Could we by chance have a video about your progress learning Danish from day 1 until now? Perhaps the lot of you if you're keen on speaking Danish :D Been following you guys for years now.
"Bachelor's degree in a trade" seems like a good way to put it. It encompasses educations such as, teacher, pedagogue, nurse, midwife, finance, event economics, animation, engineering (though not geared towards academic research), journalism - etc Contrary to "normal" bachelor degrees, the common thing for these are that the profession bachelors are geared towards positions that generally have the same name as the education and that after the bachelor you are generally "done" with education - very few from a profession bachelor background pursue a master's degree or higher, whereas in areas with ordinary bachelor degrees like most things STEM, a master's degree is the norm because the goal of these educations is often R&D
not sure of the right word. but I guess a vocational bachelors degree or similar would describe it. I did 17½ hours of tutoring myself one year. I was proudful of finding my students issues with their subject, and teaching them the right way for them to learn and catch up with their classmates
Den officielle danske betegnelse er professionsbachelor i (engelsk oversættelse: Bachelor of/in) med efterfølgende angivelse af professionens betegnelse - eksempelvis professionsbachelor i optometri (engelsk: Bachelor in Optometry).
So glad you're going to be a school teacher, Maya. I hope it means you'll stay in this country. We need more people like you. Could you please tell your friends and family in America to move here? Seriously.
Profession bachelor is a bachelors degree in a profession - aka a job :D So its a bachelors degree in a specific work - teacher amongst others. A universe bachelors degree is usually a stepping stone for a master.
Good luck, I think you'll be good. 20% of the students in the primary school are bad at Danish and mathematics because the teachers are good at learning by heart... but not at telling things in 3 different ways, so they get everyone involved. thanks for wideoer.
congratulations on the admission, now you have 3.5 years of hprd and fun work waiting for you, I myself have a professional bachelor in professional nursing from 2011 and I enjoy my time at school and in the hospital, for you it's just school and school😆 so I wish you luck and happiness comes to me😁
First of all, welcome to the club. As a teacher myself, I can say it is definitely a calling. The reason people react like they do towards the news, is because they recognize that it is an important job, but not one that is sought out, mainly due to the patience it requires and how mentally taxing it can be at times. People admires the choice of those that answer the call, as it almost goes beyond the civic duty one can expect from anybody. Nobody in Denmark becomes teachers for prestige or money, that would be a bad choice. Many of us, including myself, couldn't see themselves as anything else, because at the end of the day it can be incredible rewarding in the areas that matters. We all know the difference the right teacher can make on somebody's life and being the one that helps the next generations develop and grow is a feeling like no other. Feel free to message me, if you are ever curious about anything teaching, otherwise enjoy your time studying. Regards Søren
I have worked a little with kids before starting and with the little work I’ve done, it is such an amazing feeling knowing that you are actually making a difference and you’re actually impacting someone. The rush is just something I’ve never experienced anywhere else and I am just so excited to get to teach and make that impact for the rest of my life
Det var hurtigt du gik i gang med videregående studie. Men hvis du ikke har brug for pausen, så er det dejligt at du har mod på at kaste dig ud i et vigtigt område og fag!😊
The term for an institution where you study "professionsbachelor" is "professionshøjskole", even though it's not a højskole. Several universities in Denmark has/did have the "højskole"-postfix to the name, f.ex. Handelshøjskolen og Danmarks tekniske højskole, with big research departments and ph.d.-students etc.. A bachelor degree from a university is called "forskningsbaseret" and the professionsbachelor is not that, that's the difference that is the reason for the "professions"-prefix to the degree. Still professionsbachelor gives you access to university to take master degrees in some fields, the fields depend on your professionsbachelor degree. An advantage of professionsbachelor compared to bachelor is, that it gives you access to jobs where the degree is a requirement, like nurse, folkeskole-teacher and pædagog. The university bachelor degree is typically not enough to get an "interesting" job, students are required to take master-degree's. We need good teachers in Denmark, so it's great to hear that Maya is studying to be a teacher! And not only a teacher, but a danish teacher, it's so cool - and definitely not the easiest thing to do for an american. Jeg ønsker hende al mulig held og lykke med det 😁
I assume it's the Bachelor of Education (B. Ed.) Programme - a professional bachelor's degree - usually taught at University Colleges (Professionshøjskoler in danish). It's just like a regular bachelor’s degrees taught at regular Universities but have a stronger emphasis on practice. It allows you to continue studying for a master's degree at a regular University. Although the two bachelor's degrees are similar, and provides the same opportunities for a master's degree. They usually differs when it comes to job opportunities. A bachelor's degree from a regular University is usually just a stepping stone towards a master's degree, it does not qualify you to enter a specific profession. A professional bachelor's degree however qualifies you to enter a specific profession or to continue studying.
Danish person here: The reason people think highly of you studying to become a teacher is because we know what a difficult profession it can be. And because it is so massively important for our society. Good luck Maya, I really hope you end up loving it.
Tillykke med det Maya ! Vi har brug for dig 🤩
Jeg har tænkt på, at henover videoerne har I set mere og mere danske ud 😊
Stort til lykke med starten på den nye uddannelse. Den lyder spændende.
Hvor er det godt at høre Maya!
En bachelor er bare et helt andet niveau, fordi det er noget man selv har valgt.
Det betyder meget.
Jeg selv er ved at skrive min bachelor på UCL, professionshøjskolen i Odense, som socialrådgiver.
Funfact - jeg er 54 og min søn studerer til pædagog på samme skole 🥰
Held og Lykke, du skal nok blive en fantastisk lærer 🙏
Exiting!!! I graduated as a "folkeskolelærer" in 2016. I loved the education, and grew so much as a person. Hope you will thrive in it!
Tillykke Maya og til Danmark med udsigt til en fantastisk lærer
Hey, British guy, living in denmark here. I've done the whole Uni in Denmark thing, Its both refreshing and a little of a culture shock. Education and research in general is one of Denmarks best exports to be sure, well after bacon obviously :p. I wish you an awsome journey
Well soon the bacon lovers, might have to "grow " their own bacon, Denmark is destroying itself with its intensive farming, and its a crying shame.
@@pliashmuldba "Fucker du med mit grundvandet?", yeah, tis the downside of drinking groundwater with that amount of pig shit above. All pleasures in life have a drawback it would seem.
Agriculture represents 8% of the bnp, but lin reality ess because it's highly subsidised by the taxpayers.
It's the pharmaceutical industry that makes the growth of the danish economy.
ChatGPT: A professional bachelor's degree (or professionsbachelor in Danish) is a higher education qualification that combines academic study with practical training, preparing students for specific careers. It typically lasts for three to four years and includes internships or hands-on learning experiences in fields such as nursing, teaching, engineering, social work, or business.
Unlike a traditional academic bachelor's degree, which is more theory-focused, a professional bachelor's degree is designed to equip students with both the theoretical knowledge and practical skills needed for specific professions. This type of degree is common in many European countries and often allows graduates to enter the workforce immediately upon completion or continue with further studies if desired.
Good luck!
Can confirm, I have one in occupational therapy. A professional bachelor is common in the health care field.
How on earth was ChatGPT necessary to find this out
@@Likkivi I would guess because it was easier. I just looked it up. The only usable result was the Wiki article that explained what a bachelor is, and the specifics about the Professionsbachelor are buried deep down in it. Like, really deep down.
I ran into Maya on the bus to Århus, she was very pleasant to talk to and very nice. I didn't know that she was studying to become a teacher. Like the other Danes they mentioned I am also grateful for any new teachers we can get. I was myself a teacher but decided to change career. For me personally it was very stressful to be a teacher and the job was also quite ungrateful, students and parents can be very rude and I often had a feeling that people didn't admire or respect what did as a teacher, as if it is something easy that anyone can do. However there were also many positive experiences when you had connections with students and felt like they appreciated you and what you were doing. That's my experience but I don't want to discourage others from becoming a teacher because they might be better at dealing with those things than me and teachers are so important for our society. I just wish the rest of society would value and appreciate it as highly. I wish Maya the best of luck with becoming a teacher, I am sure she will do great.
Thanks for your service, Maya 😊
Hvor er det godt gået, Maya! Enormt tillykke med at du er kommet i gang. Nyd det. Tro mig, denne del af dit uddannelsesliv kan ... hvis du går til det på en god måde ... blive nogle af de absolut bedste år af dit liv. Du får en chance for at fordybe dig, og gøre dig virkelig, virkelig dygtig på et område du elsker.
Tillykke med nye uddannelsen Maya 🍀💚
Being a teacher is Very important! It is the adult, our youth will interact with on a daily basis, and are almost as important as a parrent, in forming good humans, and smart adults later on! It can be a stressfull job as far as i know, i was a substitute teacher for a year, and being around young people all day requires a decent amount of patience! I think that the majority of teachers i've had throughout my life, has been people who really cared, and wanted to help form good people, which is why i respect that line of work so much! Good teachers, are a huge part, of forming a good society! Good luck with it maya! I hope you'll enjoy the process!
Congrats Maya! Im studying my 5th year at Aarhus Univsersity and it can be tough but also really fun - good luck. My Gf just finished her degree started teaching at Folkeskolen, its a really fun and rewarding job
Wonderful. Congrats. We need more teachers. You will be great.
Fantastic! Your adventures are great! Best wishes! Teachers are what make the world greater!
Hey Maya, congratulations on starting your degree!
Teaching is something that is always needed, especially in our current environment, and it is something I'm sure you will be good at, and have some interesting perspectives on, given your background.
In regards to what term to use for your education, I would generally use university college or just college for any professionsbachelors programs and university for any academic bachelors programs. This is due to the term university being a protected title, only used by the 8 Danish universities.
Funny thing is you can already hear quite a lot of Danish accent/intonation in Maya's speech, interesting!
Yay best time of week! Upload day. Been waiting to hear more about Maya after graduation
Way to go girl 😊✌️ 🇩🇰/🇺🇸
You’re a shining golden example of what’s possible when you come to this little “Andegård” and just follow your talents.
Denmark is so lucky to have you guys here 🙏🏼💙
Congratulations, Maya! - It's so cool following your journey here in Denmark.
Great update, thank you so much, been missing your videos. Happy everyone is doing well.
Just to clear up the confusion. In Denmark (and Scandinavia) you are only in university if you go to a university and in Denmark there are only 8. KU, AU, AAU, SDU, RUC, ITU,DTU and CBS. The distinction is that you can only get a masters at University (with some odd ones out) and it is a science degree. As university is free in Denmark it is almost unheard of that you leave after getting your BA so for anyone who has attended university you can assume that they have a masters.
I have a degree in English and History from KU, which means that I can technically teach High School and university level. I cannot teach folkeskole like what Maya is going to be, because it would demand a lot of subjects such as pedagogy, psychology and as others have said, practical experience. I have had one course and it is not even obligatory. I would need to get a teaching course on the side after acquiring a job as a teacher were I to ever get into teaching and none of it would ever make me fit to teach children XD
Men det kan være svært for mange at forstå, når uddannelses institutionen hedder university college Lillebælt. 😮
Thank you for your service
I haven't watched your channel for a year or two. Great to see how it's going. Look forward to see more.
Thank you for getting back!
Congratulations Maya 🙏🏻🙏🏻I hope you’ll love being a teacher. Im a pedagogue and been working alongside teachers in schools and I loved it. It was my job to help the children with different issues so that the rest of the class could focus on the teacher and the children that I had sometimes had to learn in a different way because they had ADHD or other difficulties in their lives. And working with children is fantastic.
And yes you have all been missed so I’m sending lots of sunshine you way from Sunny Spain where I live now as your going into the dark period in Denmark.
I'm so excited for you! It's fantastic you get to be in the classroom so early. I know multiple people who went through education in the USA and realized teaching wasn't for them when they did their internship at the end.
I was looking for a new video from you just a few days ago…thinking I had lost som YT algorithm battle, since I had not come across your latest installment….now I will sit and enjoy this video. This.
Yay, congrats. There’s always room for more teachers who are passionate about their job.
Så godt at høre Maya! Rigtig god fornøjelse.
Hey Maya
Judging from the videos I've watched, these yap-subjects will suit you perfectly.
Being a retired teacher I really appreciate your enthusiasm.
My years in the early 1970-es studying to be a teacher were some of the most memorable years of life.
Remember when Travelin' Young uploaded videos? Pepperidge Farm remembers... ;)
Men seriøst, dejligt at se jer igen - og stort tillykke til Maya! Det lyder som den perfekte vej at gå for dig :D
I started following this channel when i was still in university and i have a piece of advice.
It is no secret we have a heavy drinking culture in denmark, and i have seen friends as well as myself having struggled with alcohol addiction as it over the years become such commonplace that you don't notice the issue until you try to quit.
So be very mindful of University and alcohol.
You are in university, we don't do "college & university" it is not seperate here. Proffesionsbachelor is most often distinguished by the fact that it is 1 semester longer than a regular bachelor and this semester is spent interning.
Great to seecyou guys again❤️
Nice to see you again too =)
And Maya, well done - from a US kid to a Teacher in Denmark, thats an awesome educational journey. I hope you have thought about the "going abroad" part of the education and that you will grab the "challenge" and go abroad during your Bachelor. It does not have to be in the US, but i imagine that US could be rather fun, especially if you still have friends there and places you can stay =D
The Bachelor is a Bachelor - but I dont think there is a Master connected to "professions bachelor", those are educations specifically for a trade/profession, such as teacher (for those reading and not Danish, preschool and kindergartens are called Pædagog and they have a different bachelor education) - but also the Police have a "professions bachelor", and nurses, just to showcase some. All of which are taught at a different school than university (a college for professions, which are found many more places in DK than Universities). Never the less they end up with a bachelor, but one that is not really connected to a masters or PHD* - to go that route you would have to go to university.
*You can connect a masters to your bachelor - but you would have to know what master to strive for as some have specific claims to how these bachelors can connect - like if you want a maters in didactics (A way to teach - what, how and why) you would need a bachelor in Danish (Uni) or other literary bachelors from Uni OR if you wanna use your "professions bachelor" then you have to have had Danish as an elective (Maya has English) and a bachelor project (the end assignment) with relevance to Danish and/or didactics - Which means you can pass your "professions bachelor" and still not qualify for a master - you need to have relevance from your end project towards that master along the right electives to be considered. Where as in Uni, if you go for a bachelors in Danish, then you can "just" acces this masters...
So yes - It is a bachelor - but no - it does not necessarily make one qualified for a masters unless you had that in mind from the get go and made the "right" electives and the "right aim" at your end project to be considered at that specific master
(masters = kandidatuddannelser)
Welcome back, I've missed you. 😊
In older days in Denmark the school for educating teathers and social educators was called a "Seminarium".
Some people still call it this and I always forget. When people ask if that’s what I’m doing I usually go “uhhhhhh OH yes haha”
Great video. I am sure you'll fit right in to the educational profession Maya. Keep your nose in the books and help our young students learn is an honorable profession.
Congratulations of starting at one of our Professionshøjskoler! :) I am working at UCN in Aalborg, and we equate ourselfes more and more to the European counterparts e.g., hoch fachschule in Germany, as a University of Applied Sciences. This has also something to do that we are basing our educations more and more on research work, something that started around 10 years ago. Moverover, there will be significant changes to the roles of Proffesionshøjskoler in Denmark soon with the educational reforms which most likely will introduce level 7 educations.
Many academics don't think about it, but school basic school is the most important school in life. As it makes the base of all learning.
There would be no highschool or university without the base school.
Josh & family, you might not have considered it, but you really ought to visit the island of Bornholm sometime. It's unlike anywhere else in the country and known as the "Sunshine Island" for a reason, especially in the summer months. It's a wonderful and unique place to visit, especially since Maya was "cheated" out of going there on a school trip, as many Danish kids might at least once while growing up.
As a teacher in Denmark I am impressed that people are positive of your choice. I often hear “Why did you want to become a teacher?” But more like “why in the world would you want that!!!”
I hope you will enjoy your studies and look forward to hearing about your first experiences of being a teacher.
Good job Maya.. Sure you'll do great.
Well congratulations with the start of the new education. I'm myself a folkeskolelærer, and i'm not going to lie, it can be so demanding and challenging. But it is also one of the MOST rewarding jobs I have ever experienced. Good luck 🤞
Congratulation, good choice. You will be a great teacher with your open attitude and calm personality.
Congrats! It's a great education to get. Not only do you get your qualification to teach, you also have the opportunity later on to specialise further with a master's degree, so you've got a lot of options.
Congrats, Maya! What a big day for you! :)
She will be so good at this job. I can already tell!
A "professionsbachelor" is indeed very much like a Bachelor's, but is usually designed to prepare you for work immediately after by having more focus on practical stuff or by simply adding on to the classic Bachelor's stuff with something like full-time internship. Although you can definitely stop studying and go work after a normal bachelor's, it's more common to continue with a Master's afterwards if you want to specialize.
I personally took a "professionsbachelor" (in engineering) which had slightly more focus on group work and projects than the Bachelor's counterpart, and added a semester of internship as well, making it 3½ years instead of 3. I ended up taking a Master's afterwards anyway, which also worked out completely fine.
Very nice. Remember to join the student union - LL (lærerstuderendes landskreds). Being the chair in Hjørring gave me so many cool experiences, also on the national stage.
hey maya good luck with your teaching education ! much love ! :D
I'm almost tempted to say "thank you for yur service". But it really is an important job to build society.
godt gået Maya Tillykke 😉💪
Glad you chose to try out becoming a teacher.
Make sure you get to teach as fast as you can. Watching others teach only gets you so far, and you learn so much actually being the teacher.
When I get interns I get them to teach from day one, if possible.
Kudos for following your ambition, despite the fact that professional bachelor isn't always recognised abroad.
But that's most often something that you can explain your way through once you have a few years experience.
And the Danish teacher's education isn't just some easy branch to pick up... you'll be a fully qualified pedagog and you'll know a whole bunch about psychology and conflict handling once you get your certificate.
The salary may not exactly be fair compared to other educations here in DK, but it has a very high level of job security, because we urgently need teachers who have the patience to handle our spoiled kids.
Best wishes!
History and religion may be considered yap subjects...
To a native speaker English could be the same, but getting a grasp of the grammar/theory behind it might still be difficult.
Because our kids are supposed to learn stuff like "I am, you are, he/she/it is... etc"... not least because in Danish it's a tad more simple: "jeg er, du er, han/hun/den/det er" our difficult grammar is somewhere else.
Anyway, it's so important to choose subjects that you know well, and be motivated to be motivating... you need to become what's beyond the books say.
Take the kids on a journey through time if you teach history, knowing the exact years isn't necessarily important, knowing the row of order is.
I had great teachers in those subjects, my history teacher was an older bearded guy who wasn't afraid of suddenly acting to be a king or a warrior.
And then there's my language teachers... for English I've been through a lady of British origin, a Dane that had spent 15 years in the US and a South African lady born from Danish parents.
I don't know what my accent is, but the books were supposed to teach me British English...
All I can say is that my can doesn't resemble my can't while I speak.. it's carn't. 🤷♂️
Good for you, Maya - You'll be a great teacher :-)
Good to see you again. I guess that your resolution to volunteer at Roskilde this year came to nought, with Maya's graduation and everything.
Things have changed so much since my time in school. Nobody would have considered a lærerseminarium equivalent to a university. My teachers, save maybe the very youngest, were not students. You could get into the seminarium with just a realeksamen. This was no longer the case when I finished school, and realeksamen was abolished altogether three years later, in 1978. My brother was one of the last realists.
As far as I know, the vocational high schools are not considered the equivalent of a university even today. They do not grant masters degrees, which is what a university does.
Awesome choice of a career. Congrats and best of luck.
Fantastic. Congrats! I'm sure you'll be an excellent English teacher, Maya. The Teacher Education is a really good programme. I just recently finished it myself (also with English as my primary subject, and I even used the same excellent book you have in the thumbnail). 😊
You're quite right that the names of the institutions and degrees are very confusing. In some ways, I would say that the "professionsbachelor" is at a higher level than a regular bachelor's degree since it is four years rather than three and officially qualifies you for a profession, which a bachelor's degree does not. At the end, the title conferred is "Bachelor of Education" (B.Ed.).
Using the same word ("højskole") for two very very different types of institutions is a little silly, I agree. In case you're interested in a little etymology, the word comes from the German "Hochschule", which is a general term for institutions of higher education and also encompasses traditional universities. In Danish, it is only used for university-type institutions as a compound noun (such as "professionshøjskole" as you said, "journalisthøjskole", or "handelshøjskole"). Used on its own, it can only mean a traditional højskole (also called "folkehøjskole"). Nobody would say that they "går på højskole" or "studerer på højskole" and mean a university-type institution.
I hope you have a great time at college/university/professionshøjskole! 😅
God luck with your Study. My own Daughter just finished Den Fri Lærerskole. God teachers are so important for the future.
Religion and history is actually a very exciting subject in and around Denmark.
From being one of the most powerful countries in Europe to being almost wiped out, we're still here.
Remember when you speak English that 5-10% of the words come from Danish (Norse). Many of the English "th" words are from Danish.
The Vikings in England left a bigger mark. With the Vikings, modern religion starts, with it downs and ups.
Good to see you moving on safely in life (career wise). You will probably end up in Copenhagen City Hall, in the education sector. I have a cousin that did that, not in CPH, but in Aarhus.
Go Maya!!!!!
Now there’s no way you can move back to US. We need you 😊
As you say, bachelors and proffessionsbachelors a considered the same academic level. The difference is, that professionsbachelors are considered to be finished with their education once they graduate. However a bachelor is more considered a step towards the following two-year master programme (which is then a higher academic level than bachelors and professionsbachelors)
Both bachelor (academic route) and professional bachelor are on the level 6 in Danish qualification skala :) (Uddannelses- og forskningsministeriet og UddannelsesGuiden)
Good freaking luck, enjoy the subjective grading. Finished my masters degree last year.
Maya vil nu få hvad man før (også nu?) kaldte 'lærerseminariet' , som rigtigt nok er en 'college degree'. Held og lykke!
Jeg har gjort¹ det samme.
1) Blot på CBC, civiløkonom.
Congrats Maya. I've been a teacher for 21 years now and we need passionate people. Just a heads up. There is a big difference between public schools and private schools. I have taught at both and would recommend teaching at a private school. If you need advice, I'm available. :)
Best of luck!
I am American living in Denmark too and have found the Danish language to be very difficult for me to speak and hear. I can't imagine moving here in high school and going to Danish high school. Now I assume your university reading materials are in Danish, your lectures, most of your interactions. You seem to be totally fine with this but I'm just curious if you feel overwhelmed or even lost especially when at university level the vocabulary might be new when it comes to learning a new subject. I remember you said in high school most people talked in English to you but of course you must be fluent in Danish. I just am really impressed how effortless it seems for you and how it doesn't seem like the Danish language is causing you any extra stress.
Most of my social/personal conversations happen in English, as I’m just more comfortable in my first language. But yes all my classes and lectures are in Danish. There are definitely a lot of new words to learn but it feels like my classmates and I are all starting on the same level, as they also don’t know the academic vocabulary. So it’s actually ok. And everyone is always open to helping me if I need, and I’m not scared to ask. Help is important!! So it’s actually ok, new words but for now it’s good. We’ll see if I have the same answer when I’m writing my final paper 😅
Great to hear, but honestly you can't call it University, it is called "Seminarium"
Jeg læser også til lærer and I also have the book from the thumbnail haha. It's a bible for legit all essays you need to write haha
Held og lykke med studiet. Det bliver så spændende!❤
Hope you are all doing well, it has been awhile. Missing your videos, must be a busy time for you all. Have a wonderful weekend. 😊
Super sweet Maya thank u for choosing folkeskolelære.
Good luck at the professionsskole, Maya. 🙂 And sorry about the tooth, Miranda. I had a wisdom tooth pulled recently, and goodness, that went wrong. :-( I'm hoping your process was a better experience. ;-)
The idea with a professionsbachelor is also that a normal BSc (in stem fields especially) is often not worth much on it's own without the following masters. So even though it's often more narrow in what jobs open up, and it often takes a year longer due to the internships, it's still a more focused path if you know where you're going.
We need more people like Maya😊
Awesomesauce! Virtual hi5 to Maya!
Could we by chance have a video about your progress learning Danish from day 1 until now? Perhaps the lot of you if you're keen on speaking Danish :D Been following you guys for years now.
"Bachelor's degree in a trade" seems like a good way to put it.
It encompasses educations such as, teacher, pedagogue, nurse, midwife, finance, event economics, animation, engineering (though not geared towards academic research), journalism - etc
Contrary to "normal" bachelor degrees, the common thing for these are that the profession bachelors are geared towards positions that generally have the same name as the education and that after the bachelor you are generally "done" with education - very few from a profession bachelor background pursue a master's degree or higher, whereas in areas with ordinary bachelor degrees like most things STEM, a master's degree is the norm because the goal of these educations is often R&D
Tillykke med valget :)
Tillykke 🎉
not sure of the right word.
but I guess a vocational bachelors degree or similar would describe it.
I did 17½ hours of tutoring myself one year. I was proudful of finding my students issues with their subject, and teaching them the right way for them to learn and catch up with their classmates
Congratulation Maya.
I hope you will thrive studying to be a teacher.
Good luck. 😊🤞🏻🙏🏻🩷💚🧡♥️
Den officielle danske betegnelse er professionsbachelor i (engelsk oversættelse: Bachelor of/in) med efterfølgende angivelse af professionens betegnelse - eksempelvis professionsbachelor i optometri (engelsk: Bachelor in Optometry).
So glad you're going to be a school teacher, Maya. I hope it means you'll stay in this country. We need more people like you. Could you please tell your friends and family in America to move here? Seriously.
Congratulations on becoming a teacher, Maya. We need you. Your pupils will learn English from a native speaker. How cool is that? 👍🙂
Tillykke med studiestarten
Profession bachelor is a bachelors degree in a profession - aka a job :D
So its a bachelors degree in a specific work - teacher amongst others.
A universe bachelors degree is usually a stepping stone for a master.
A Professions Bachelor is a BA that you can actually use whereas the BA needs a Master's to add to it.
Teacher is such a great choice
Good teachers shape the future.
Good luck, I think you'll be good. 20% of the students in the primary school are bad at Danish and mathematics because the teachers are good at learning by heart... but not at telling things in 3 different ways, so they get everyone involved. thanks for wideoer.
congratulations on the admission, now you have 3.5 years of hprd and fun work waiting for you, I myself have a professional bachelor in professional nursing from 2011 and I enjoy my time at school and in the hospital, for you it's just school and school😆 so I wish you luck and happiness comes to me😁
The teacher education in 4 years, even better!
Congrats
First of all, welcome to the club. As a teacher myself, I can say it is definitely a calling. The reason people react like they do towards the news, is because they recognize that it is an important job, but not one that is sought out, mainly due to the patience it requires and how mentally taxing it can be at times. People admires the choice of those that answer the call, as it almost goes beyond the civic duty one can expect from anybody.
Nobody in Denmark becomes teachers for prestige or money, that would be a bad choice. Many of us, including myself, couldn't see themselves as anything else, because at the end of the day it can be incredible rewarding in the areas that matters. We all know the difference the right teacher can make on somebody's life and being the one that helps the next generations develop and grow is a feeling like no other.
Feel free to message me, if you are ever curious about anything teaching, otherwise enjoy your time studying.
Regards Søren
I have worked a little with kids before starting and with the little work I’ve done, it is such an amazing feeling knowing that you are actually making a difference and you’re actually impacting someone. The rush is just something I’ve never experienced anywhere else and I am just so excited to get to teach and make that impact for the rest of my life
Det var hurtigt du gik i gang med videregående studie. Men hvis du ikke har brug for pausen, så er det dejligt at du har mod på at kaste dig ud i et vigtigt område og fag!😊
The term for an institution where you study "professionsbachelor" is "professionshøjskole", even though it's not a højskole. Several universities in Denmark has/did have the "højskole"-postfix to the name, f.ex. Handelshøjskolen og Danmarks tekniske højskole, with big research departments and ph.d.-students etc.. A bachelor degree from a university is called "forskningsbaseret" and the professionsbachelor is not that, that's the difference that is the reason for the "professions"-prefix to the degree. Still professionsbachelor gives you access to university to take master degrees in some fields, the fields depend on your professionsbachelor degree. An advantage of professionsbachelor compared to bachelor is, that it gives you access to jobs where the degree is a requirement, like nurse, folkeskole-teacher and pædagog. The university bachelor degree is typically not enough to get an "interesting" job, students are required to take master-degree's.
We need good teachers in Denmark, so it's great to hear that Maya is studying to be a teacher! And not only a teacher, but a danish teacher, it's so cool - and definitely not the easiest thing to do for an american. Jeg ønsker hende al mulig held og lykke med det 😁
Good luck. Sounds like a good start. Time to start some sports. Come play Ultimate frisbee with us in Copenhagen Hucks
I assume it's the Bachelor of Education (B. Ed.) Programme - a professional bachelor's degree - usually taught at University Colleges (Professionshøjskoler in danish).
It's just like a regular bachelor’s degrees taught at regular Universities but have a stronger emphasis on practice. It allows you to continue studying for a master's degree at a regular University.
Although the two bachelor's degrees are similar, and provides the same opportunities for a master's degree. They usually differs when it comes to job opportunities.
A bachelor's degree from a regular University is usually just a stepping stone towards a master's degree, it does not qualify you to enter a specific profession.
A professional bachelor's degree however qualifies you to enter a specific profession or to continue studying.