Team
School Principal
Headmistress Secondary School
Subjects: Social Studies, P.E.
It is refreshing to see how the “little ones” and the “big ones” move around our school. School is so much more than lessons. It is a place of encounter for all of us. We never stop learning from and with each other, and it is especially nice to look at the world and ourselves together with the children and young people with openness, wonder and curiosity. For me, starting at DISDH also opened the door to a new exciting world where there is so much to discover.
Deputy Headmaster Secondary School
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
After 11 years in school management at a Bavarian High School, I am pleased to be able to work at a very familiar school like DISDH as deputy headmaster and as a biology and chemistry teacher. I am particularly keen to be able to provide my pupils with a scientific explanation for everyday phenomena and share my enthusiasm for science with them.
Head of Primary School
I became a teacher because it is a beautiful and very meaningful task to pass on knowledge and education while meeting young people. In living and learning with the children, I experience an infinite amount of originality and creativity. The children bring so much with them. It is my task to support them in the development of their personality and their potential.
Administration
Managing Director
Front desk
Front Desk
Front Desk
Finances
Human Resources (HR)
PR & Marketing
PR & Marketing
IT-Coordinator
Facility Manager
Facility Manager
Facility Manager
Library
KINDERGARTEN & PRE-SCHOOL
Head of Kindergarten, Pre-School and Afternoon Programme Department
Answering the small and big questions of the children every day again and thus accompanying them in their development is still for me the most beautiful task in my job as an educator. Children with international backgrounds learn at our school in a very personal atmosphere, which gives me a particular pleasure. Nature with beach and sea and culture in a wide range of offers – The Hague combines both and offers many opportunities to discover this together with the pupils.
Starfish Group
Al vanaf de eerste ontmoeting met de collega‘s, de ouders en de kinderen wist ik dat ik hier goed op mijn plek zat. De hartelijkheid en open communicatie vind ik een groot pluspunt dat ook tijdens het werken met de kinderen terugkomt. Daar waar mijn collega‘s in het Duits met de kinderen communiceren, communiceer ik met hen in het Nederlands. Opvallend is dat een nieuwe taal heel snel wordt aangeleerd.
Pre-School
Children are a wonderful thing. As an educator you have the opportunity to discover the world together with the children and support them in their development. The proximity to the North Sea and the international and cultural diversity at the German International School in The Hague are always exciting.
Seahorse Group
I enjoy the freedom to engage with the different interests and needs of the children and to support each child according to their strengths. Furthermore, the joy and informality of the children gives me a lot of pleasure. During my daily bike rides, I experience and explore the wind, storm and sunshine in all corners of The Hague. I enjoy the sea, the nature, the internationality, the Dutch flair.
Pre-School Coordination
I chose the profession of pre-school teacher because children have a different perspective on the world and thus change my perspective. I like DISDH because many age groups live harmoniously under one roof and thus enrich each other.
The North Sea reminds me of my home. It gives me the feeling of living “just around the corner”.
Pre-School
The diversity of languages, cultures and people brought me to DISDH. I find it amazing how quickly children learn new languages and how fast they make new friends despite language barriers. DISDH is a place where you are perceived and supported as a person with all your facets. And that already starts with us in the Kindergarten!
Seahorse Group
I consider working with the “youngest” in our kindergarten to be a very exciting and always interesting challenge. It is an unbelievable enrichment to accompany children in the “great game of life” (as Fröbel said), to shape them and to make them a joyful person.
Pre-School
Pre-School
Since my early youth, I have wanted to accompany children in their development. Children have this interested, exploratory way of looking at the world and I get to experience that and encourage them to find answers to their questions.
I was born on the Baltic Sea. Because of love, I moved to the Netherlands, near The Hague.
The North Sea, the sober people and the work at DISDH have made The Hague another home.
Language Development/DaF (German as a Foreign Language)
What I like most about our school is the diversity of cultures. It is always great to get to know new customs and habits of children from different countries. The fact that our school is located in The Hague, a place by the sea that brings people from all over the world together, is something special. I always enjoy driving through the streets in the sunshine with all the flags from all over the world.
Musk Group
Working with children daily excites, motivates and inspires me. Children see the world with completely different eyes and their stories are so honest and open. It is important to me to accompany the smallest DISDH children on their first steps and to prepare them – individually – for life after Kindergarten.
Musk Group
Seeing the world through children’s eyes and to discover it with them and to be amazed together is what makes up my passion for the profession.
I want to guide the children on their paths, support them and look forward to growing together with them.
Seastar Group
What I find most exciting about working with children is seeing how they discover and experience the world. I am delighted to pass on my enthusiasm and joy to the children of DISDH and look forward to accompanying them on their journey through life.
PRIMARY SCHOOL
Head of Primary School
I became a teacher because it is a beautiful and very meaningful task to pass on knowledge and education while meeting young people. In living and learning with the children, I experience an infinite amount of originality and creativity. The children bring so much with them. It is my task to support them in the development of their personality and their potential.
Subjects: Art, Remedial Teaching
Class Teacher Grade 1
Class Teacher Grade 2
In primary school, the children have an infectious enthusiasm. Their motivation to learn shapes the lessons. That’s why I particularly enjoy accompanying the children as they learn written language, read their first books independently or begin to deal consciously with mathematics. Since there is so much more to learning in primary school, it always remains interesting.
Class Teacher Grade 3a
For me as a primary school teacher, it is especially nice to see the children continue to “grow” after Grade 4. When the children leave primary school, they still stay in the same building as we do. So, I meet them almost every day and usually there is time for a short chat or at least a “good morning”. I enjoy that very much and find it incredibly exciting to watch how big the “little ones” are growing.
Primary School Guidance
Subjects: English, Dutch
Subject: P.E.
Als gymdocent wil ik de kinderen een gezonder leefstijl bijbrengen door ze veel te laten bewegen waarbij het plezier en het vertrouwen in de gymzaal bovenop staat. Daarnaast laat ik de kinderen kennis maken met diverse sporten, zodat zij zich daarin verder kunnen ontwikkelen.
Class Teacher Grade 4a
What I particularly like about our school is the fact that I am in contact with so many different people every day. Colleagues from all school areas work together ,and I find it is very enriching. I also think it is great that I don’t just lose track of my students after grade 4. They just change floors and when we meet, there is almost always a short time to talk. That gives our school a family-like atmosphere that I really appreciate.
Subject: DaF (German as a Foreign Language)
After my teacher training for German, History and German as a Foreign Language and a longer stopover in Bavaria, I am now teaching at DISDH. What do I appreciate about our school? That I have a small Europe around me all the time. We can always learn something from each other. I always try to pass on the importance of this idea to the students at DISDH.
Class Teacher Grade 3b
I myself have experienced that school is more than imparting knowledge. School is about learning with and from each other and requires a good error culture. Therefore, it is important to me that the children in my class feel accepted and welcome. I want to offer them a space where there is room for imagination and their own thoughts, as well as for worries, fears and needs.
Special needs educator
Working as a teacher at a school with an enthusiastic student body, a friendly staff, a family atmosphere, an enormous diversity of languages and nationalities – and all this close to the beach – gives me a lot of joy every day.
Subjects: English, Art
Class Teacher Grade 4b
SECONDARY SCHOOL
Headmistress Secondary School
Subjects: Social Studies, P.E.
It is refreshing to see how the “little ones” and the “big ones” move around our school. School is so much more than lessons. It is a place of encounter for all of us. We never stop learning from and with each other, and it is especially nice to look at the world and ourselves together with the children and young people with openness, wonder and curiosity. For me, starting at DISDH also opened the door to a new exciting world where there is so much to discover.
Deputy Headmaster Secondary School
Head of Chemistry Department
Subjects: Biology, Chemistry
After 11 years in school management at a Bavarian High School, I am pleased to be able to work at a very familiar school like DISDH as deputy headmaster and as a biology and chemistry teacher. I am particularly keen to be able to provide my pupils with a scientific explanation for everyday phenomena and share my enthusiasm for science with them.
Class Teacher Grade 10
Head of Music Department
Subjects: Music, Geography
I am very enthuisiastic to be able to make music together with all the children of the school community at this family-like school. All children are welcome to join us in the workshops and we will also be making music together a lot in the music lessons. Teaching geography here in The Hague is a wonderful enrichment in this European environment with strong minded pupils.
Subjects: Music, Mathematics, Technical Education
When it finally clicks, or literally a light flashes. Those are sometimes the most beautiful moments in teaching. That’s another reason why I became a teacher, to experience such moments with the students in my subjects: Music, mathematics and technical education, to witness such moments together with the pupils. Every lesson is different and I look forward to new exciting experiences every day.
Class Teacher Grade 12
Head of English Department
Subjects: History, English
Head of Biology Department
Subjects: Biology, German
I studied biology, and at the same time literature and a language, because I wanted to understand life in all its facets, and I studied teaching to be able to pass on this knowledge. The beauty of this profession, is that I can not only teach, but also continue to learn myself. About different students, from experienced colleagues and now also about the culture and language of a new, beautiful country.
Class Teacher Grade 6a
Head of Mathematics Department
Subjects: Mathematics, French
Languages are the cornerstone of life together: whether in the family, at school, on trips, among friends or in sports. I see mathematics as another language that makes it possible to grasp and describe the world more accurately. It gives me great pleasure to be able to pass this on to the pupils on their way.
Head of Religion Department
Subject: Religion
I have always been concerned with “God and the world”. I enjoy searching for answers to the existential questions of human beings. I always enjoy discussing these with children and young people! And in doing so, I appreciate their committed, fresh, sometimes very critical and creative way of dealing with religious content and forms of expression.
Subjects: German, English
It is always a pleasure for me to work with children and adolescents, to teach facets of literature and language and to look at them from the different perspectives of the pupils. It is always exciting to observe the children’s learning progress. Very important to me is to convey and promote the fun and joy of literature and language.
School Social Worker and contact person
I have worked for many years in the areas of youth welfare, family work and as a speaker as well as an adventure and experience educator for various educational institutions. I have been a school social worker at DISDH since August 2021 and am the contact person for pupils, parents and colleagues. I work together with the teaching staff, the class representatives and the student council. I also organise and accompany excursions and class trips.
Class Teacher Grade 7a
Head of Secondary Modern School & Natural Phenomena Department
Subjects: Mathematics, Computer Science, Natural Phenomena, School XL
Discovering the world with children – a challenging task in a rapidly changing time. I like to face this task anew every day, in the natural sciences and computer science, but especially in my function as “Jugend Forscht” coordinator.
Head of DAF DEpartment
Subject: DaF (German as a Foreign Language)
For me, there is nothing better than discovering the German language anew through my students again and again with different linguistic backgrounds, and regularly reinterpreting German culture alltogether and thus being able to look at it from different perspectives. DISDH is a place of learning for enthusiastic, active children – I couldn’t ask for a better place to work!
School Social Worker
Subjects: DaF (German as a Foreign Language), English, History, LRS
Class Teacher Grade 11a
Head of History Department
Subjects: English, Social Studies, History
Class Teacher Grade 6b
Head of Art Department
Subjects: Art, Ethics, German
School is not only about imparting knowledge, but also, and perhaps above all, about building relationships. At DISDH I swim like a fish in water: a small, clear school with a high educational and social value. When I stand in the playground, I know all the pupils by name. And professionally, I can also set high standards. Working here is fun.
Class Teacher Grade 8
Subjects: German, French
Since I was enthusiastic about leading German-French youth groups at an early age, teaching was a natural choice for me. I think it is great to be able to accompany pupils on their way to adulthood. Satisfied students who feel valued as human beings are my motivation and I hope that my personal enthusiasm for languages is contagious!
Class Teacher Grade 9
Head of German Department
Subjects: German, Biology
I am looking forward to discovering the diverse nature and culture in and around The Hague together with the children and young people. I would like to contribute to making DISDH a place where the students enjoy coming and where they feel comfortable.
Head of Secondary School I
Subjects: Mathematics, English
I am enthusiastic to be a member of this warm, diverse and open-minded school community and find it great to play a role in the process of learning from each other outside of my Mathmatics and English classes.
Head of P.E. Department
Subject: P.E.
As a P.E. teacher, I have turned my hobby into my profession. I have been involved in sport since childhood. Since I did athletics as a competitive sport for many years, I cannot imagine my life without sports. That’s why I want to convey the fun and enthusiasm for sport to the students and pass it on to them on their way through life.
Subjects: German, Ethics, LRS, School XL
Class Teacher Grade 5
Subjects: English, Dutch, French
Head of Computer Science Department
Subjects: Computer Science, Mathematics
First and foremost, as a teacher, I wish to be able to pass some of my own enthusiasm for my subjects on to the students. Mathematics and computer sciences open up a fascinating world of thinking that can be a gateway to understanding nature, culture and technology. Furthermore, I would like to be part of a large teaching community at school, where we enrich each other and engage with ourselves and our environment with curiosity and goodwill.
Subjects: Social Studies, School XL
Originally, I come from southern Germany, but I discovered early on that I feel at home in many places in Europe. For private and professional reasons, I have lived in Spain, Switzerland and Austria. At our school here in The Hague, many interesting people with exciting biographies from Europe and the world come together in the teaching staff and the student community. This is what makes DISDH so special and makes everyday school life so enriching!
Class Teacher Grade 11b
Head of Geography Department
Subjects: English, Geography
As a teacher, I enjoy discovering and nurturing students’ talents, helping them to find their own way. Teaching geography in English at an international school in The Hague is not only a nice combination of my two subjects, but also a delightful task in a city where you can feel the European spirit everywhere.
Fach: DaF (German as a Foreign Language)
After studying to be a teacher of German, history and German as a foreign language and a longer stopover in Bavaria, I now teach at DISDH. What do I appreciate about our school? That I have a small Europe around me all the time. We can always learn something from each other. I always try to pass on the importance of this idea to the students at DISDH.
Head of French Department
Subjects: German, French
As a language teacher, the daily intercultural exchange that lives in The Hague and at DISDH is particularly important to me as a person. Especially in times of the increasing nationalist movements in many European countries, I see it as particularly important to promote cohesion in Europe again, and I would like to contribute to this through my work at our school.
Subject: English
Subject: Religion
Class Teacher Grade 7b
Subjects: French, English, DaF (German as a Foreign Language)
The international flair of The Hague makes my heart beat faster as a foreign language teacher. In my subjects French and English, I would like to deal with my students individually, motivate them to communicate in the respective foreign language without fear of speaking and give them an understanding of the respective culture.
Head of Secondary School II
Head of Physics Department
Subjects: Physics, Mathematics
What sounds rather cliché is actually true: teacher has been my dream job since my primary school days. Now, not only can I work in this profession, but I also have great classes and colleagues, and a lively school community in a beautiful city!
Student Guidance
I knew early on that working with children and their families was my calling. Accompanying children as they grow and mature, discovering the individuality of each family together with parents, creating opportunities and thinking in solutions, seeing and teaching skills. I have been able to practise this in many different places in Germany over the last few years, most recently as chairperson of a forest kindergarten near Hannover. I am very much looking forward to working in this international and familiar environment of DISDH and to contributing to exciting developments of the school.
Afternoon Programme
Head of Kindergarten, Pre-School and Afternoon Programme Department
Answering the small and big questions of the children every day again and thus accompanying them in their development is still for me the most beautiful task in my job as an educator. Children with international backgrounds learn at our school in a very personal atmosphere, which gives me a particular pleasure. Nature with beach and sea and culture in a wide range of offers – The Hague combines both and offers many opportunities to discover this together with the pupils.
Afternoon Programme
(Grade 1 to 4)
Since my early youth, I have wanted to accompany children in their development. Children have this interested, enquiring way of looking at the world and I get to share in that and encourage them to find answers to their questions.
I was born in a beautiful old town on the Baltic Sea. My second home was for many years the Kiel Canal, but because of love I moved to the Netherlands, near The Hague.
Afternoon Programme
(Grade 1 to 4)
Above all, the concept of the kindergarten and the promotion of self-determined learning for the children really appealed to me personally at DISDH. I like the fact that our work is adapted to the different interests and needs of the children and is thematically addressed in everyday life. I’m really looking forward to working and spending time together with the children, parents and colleagues.
