Career

Professional journey

Märkisches Kreisblatt1990

I published a travel report from Nigeria and worked briefly as a freelance contributor. At the time, I was still a pupil at Burggymnasium Altena.

Student assistant to Dr Pfromm
July 1995 – December 1997
Institute of Education, University of Münster

Assessing student papers, preparing and organising seminars, advising students, office work and IT (computers and networks)

Secondary school teacher

July – December 1998
Værøy Grunnskole

Teaching subjects including German, social studies, natural sciences, mathematics, computing, PE, art and craft

(A report from the edge of the world)

Freelance workSeptember 1999 – December 2003

May 2001: Translating internet and WAP pages from Norwegian into German

Sept. 1999 – Dec. 2003: Teaching courses at the adult education centres in Lengerich, Lingen and Hamm, and for the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Norwegian (language and film courses), IT (the basics)

Westfälische Landschaft- Bodenkreditbank AG
January 2000 – November 2003

Staff and organisational development

IT training, organisational development, Notes administration, database and workflow development

Full-time educator at VHS Kreis Euskirchen

January 2004 – October 2014

Head of the IT and Media, Qualifications and Careers, Politics, Society and Law, and commissioned programmes departments, as well as social-interest day trips; LQW quality officer

(“A changing image at VHS Kreis Euskirchen”, article from page 11 in the Landkreistag NRW bulletin)

Deputy head of the adult education centre, Eschweiler

Since November 2014

Deputy head of the Department for Continuing Education

Head of Health Education and General Education (including IT and basic education)

Events in academic subjects (education, digitalisation), vocational education (marketing) and cultural education (dance classes)

Active in “Extended Learning Environments” and the digitalisation of continuing education

ISO 9000:2015 quality officer

Andreas Balsliemke portrait on an iPad

And next?