German Educators and Supporters:
Please join us for professional
development and networking.
Herbst 2016:
MN AATG
Workshop
Content and
Collaboration in your Classroom
Samstag, 24. September 2016
University of St. Thomas, OEC 317 (St. Paul, MN) Campus map
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ab 8.30
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Frühstück
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9.00
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Geschichte
im Deutschunterricht der Grund- und Mittelstufe (mehr unten)
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11.15
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Wie
entdeckt man die Schweiz, Österreich und Berlin durch gemeinschaftliches
Schreiben? (mehr
unten)
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12.00
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Mittagessen
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12.30
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MN AATG Treffen
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14.00
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Schluss
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Seminarleiterinnen
Dr. Susanne
Wagner, University of Saint Thomas
Dr. Juliane
Schicker, Carlton College
Fr. Katie
Casson, Northfield Schools
REGISTRATION:
· $20.00: AATG-Members who pre-register by
Sept 13 (incl. breakfast/lunch)
· $25.00: Non-Members who pre-register by
Sept 13 (incl. breakfast/lunch)
· Walk-ins: add $5 each
· Current Board Members and Presenters:
Complimentary admission
then make your payment by mail:
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Make check payable to:
MN AATG
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Mail to:
Amanda Stenberg
711 Fair Oaks Drive
Mora, MN 55051
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widely with colleagues and friends!
Um 9 Uhr mit Susanne Wagner: Teaching
History at the Elementary and Intermediate Levels
Language
programs have relinquished curricula based solely on grammar-centric textbooks,
which restrict meaningful teaching of culture. Reforms are based on the
premise that students learn more effectively, if they focus on narration at the
lower level, shift to explanation by the fourth semester, and conclude with
argumentation in the most advanced classes, while they learn grammar functions
necessary to communicate when they need them and not before. By
integrating course content with proficiency-level appropriate tasks, students
engage and re-engage with specific topics throughout their studies. They
not only develop a deeper understanding of target language material, but also
acquire multiple literacies.
A
literacy-based language curriculum lends itself to integrating history
as a content strand and foreshadowing historical events, personages, texts,
images in the lower levels to allow for deeper engagement in more advanced
literature and film courses. Interweaving history in this fashion allows
students to understand how a culture preserves collective and collected knowledge.
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to
integrate significant historic events into the L2 curriculum, so that students
a) understand how history resonates in a nation’s cultural memory, b) allows
for a more natural integration of cultural information, and c) are prepared for
more in-depth analyses in higher-level courses.
Through
this approach, German, as a humanities discipline, furthers skills in
communication and interpretation relevant to the 21st century
student. Featured instructional activities highlight pedagogical
approaches and demonstrate how a more theme-based curriculum can facilitate
reflective acquisition of language so that students, who complete their
language studies after the second year, still gain meaningful intercultural
skills fostering critical thinking that may be useful for a future career.
Um 11 Uhr mit Juliane Schicker und Katie Casson: Getting
to know the German-speaking world in collaboration: AP German/third-semester
college German explore Switzerland, Austria, and Berlin together
Collaborative
writing projects have been increasingly advocated for the SLA classroom to expand
social interaction, to foster communicative teaching, and to strengthen the
students’ self-awareness and self-confidence. Few sources present ideas about
connecting high school German learners with college students in this context.
Our collaborative writing project
is ideally suited for the third or fourth semester college classroom and the AP
high school classroom. Best used when both groups learn about Europe, the
project covers the geographical and cultural areas of Switzerland, Austria, and
Berlin. It cultivates individual and collaborative learning moments, group
dynamics, video watching and text writing. Through short online videos about
the two countries and Berlin, students are made familiar with the cultural
aspects of the German-speaking world. In a GoogleDocs project, they then
discuss aspects from these videos as well as their own impressions of the areas
and videos with other students.
This project aims at connecting the K-12 German classroom with
the college German classroom. It enhances the students’ learning experiences
with peers and improves their confidence in talking/writing in German. They
debate, interact socially online, acquire new knowledge together, express their
personal likes and dislikes, and collaboratively search for meaning. At the
same time, this project strengthens the ties between K-12 and college German
education. It opens the college classroom to the community and offers
opportunities for high school students to step beyond their AP classroom and
realize that college German is not scary at all. In the long run, projects like
this can increase enrollments in both high schools and colleges, which will aid
the general goal of increasing enrollment in German.
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