Lehrerfortbildungsseminar
A Teacher Training Seminar
One week: July 30 - August 6, 2009
- A GERMAN ONLY intensive immersion experience for German language instructors at all levels.
- Through workshops, excursions, and other activities, boost your language teaching skills and share--in German--teaching methods with fellow instructors.
- Two to four-credits possible at an additional charge. The four-credit option is available with a two-week stay working on a given project (July 23 - August 6)
- We encourage you to spend an additional week and participate in part of the five-week immersion program.
- Coordinated by the teacher trainer network of the Goethe-Institut San Fransisco.
- Sponsored by Portland State University and the Goethe-Institut San Francisco.
Concept and Contents
The one-week teacher training seminar is facilitated by certified trainers of the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, who have extensive teaching experience in the USA. A balanced program of lectures as well as workshops will be offered, giving course participants ample opportunity to put their new knowledge to immediate use in the classroom.
This year’s Teacher Training Seminar takes its inspiration from the photo exhibition 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall. Ikonen einer Grenzanlage: Fotografische Spurensuche im heutigen Berlin (20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Icons of a Border Installation: Photographic Search for Traces in Today’s Berlin). The exhibition, created by students at the University of Paderborn under the direction of Prof. Dr. Barbara Becker and the photographer Jürgen Spiler of Dortmund, will be exhibited at 12 locations throughout the U.S. during 2009.
(see http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/kue/bku/gre/en3974101v.htm).
The thematic focus of this year's Teacher Training Seminar will be “Grenzen, Trennung und Wiedervereinigung.” Course participants will:
- use the photo exhibition and related instructional materials to explore the contemporary landscape of Berlin 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
- learn how to effectively use photographic and other visual media in the German language classroom
- learn how to create a virtual learning environment by creating a virtual Berlin Wall for the German classroom using the “Think Like A Genius” software program
- use Internet-resources, texts, and other sources to create activities based on this year's theme
As always, the goal of the Teacher Training Seminar is to develop an instructional model and materials that can ensure a smooth transition from summer break directly into the classroom. Course materials (e.g., handouts) will be developed by the seminar leaders and by the group during the workshops.
One group field trip to a destination in the Northwest is planned.