Sarah, to become a secondary school teacher in Germany you have to study for at least four years (two specialised subjects plus pedagogy or whatever it's called), and normally you will only teach those two subjects. When you've got your degree (state, not university, and not much use for any other job) and a little wait, perhaps (depends very much on your subjects) you do two years teacher's training. Another exam, and with luck you're in. Only you don't know where. In Germany you don't apply to an individual school for a job but to the state (one of our federal states) which then allocates the teachers without any consideration for their present place of habitation. Most of the extra tasks in school - from running the library, the collections for the various science subjects or music or a department, to working out the timetable and break duty - are done by the teachers themselves. The only non-teachers in a German school are normally the secretary, the cleaners and the janitor. (Though I hear that some inner-city schools are now getting their resident psychologists, and as part of the effort to make schools 'whole-day' instead of 'half-day', i.e. 9 - 4 instead of 7.30 - 1, non-teachers are employed for some hours per week to do projects, supervise homework etc.). Any teacher can volunteer to run the library, but I'd normally expect them to choose someone with some years' teaching experience. The one good thing is, German teachers are better paid than English ones. If you've got further questions, PM me or write to skw at worldmusic dot de.