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Showing posts with label Awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Awards. Show all posts
2015 National German Exam Registration Open Now
Nominate a Colleague for the Teacher of the Year Award ....
Minnesota AATG News Item
MNAATG INFOBAHN
Nomination
for MNATTG Teacher of the Year 2014
Know an
outstanding teacher of German?
Please submit
your nomination in the form of a one – page letter. You might want to explain
your choice by addressing such issues as the nominee’s teaching philosophy,
student support and promotion, program and professional development and
contributions to the profession overall. Self-nominations are welcome.
April
4, 2014.
This award is
sponsored by MNATTG. Nominees do not have to be members of ATTG or MNATTG. For MNATTG,
Isolde Mueller, SCSU.
Please submit further news
items by replying to this email.
AATG Testing Program -- Oral Interviews and Awards Banquet Dates are Set
Dear All,
I would like to introduce myself to you as the new AATG
MN Testing Chair and thank Lisa Ohm for her help and support in making this
transition as smoothly as possible.
Please save the following two dates in connection with
the National German Exam:
Oral Exams:
Saturday, March 8, 2014, 8:00-12:00 noon University of
St. Thomas (Saint Paul Campus: OEC Classrooms)
Award Banquet:
Sunday, April 27, 2014 (12:00-3:00 pm +/-) University of
St. Thomas (Saint Paul Campus: Woulfe Alumni Hall)
I will send out more information concerning the events
soon, and of course will ask you for your support. Most importantly, I would like to request
your help with the oral interviews.
Susanne.
Dr. Susanne M. Wagner, Assistant Professor of German
& Program Director University of St. Thomas | Department of Modern &
Classical Languages | O'Shaughnessy Education Center 320-H
651-962-5174 office | wagn9302@stthomas.edu<mailto:wagn9302@stthomas.edu>
| Mail Box # 5027 | http://www.stthomas.edu/mcl/programs/german/
AATG/Goethe-Institut Mentor/Teacher Trainer, http://www.aatg.org Testing Chair, AATG
Minnesota, http://mnaatg.blogspot.com
35 Students Representing 9 High Schools Honored at MNAATG Awards Banquet
Dear Minnesota Teachers: Please consider having your students take the AATG test next year. This year, the exam period was December 3, 2012 to February 1, 2013. Here is the website for more information: http://www.aatg.org/NGE Give it a try! You have nothing to lose! (Feel free to forward this message to your head of school or others who may be interested.)
On Saturday, April 27, 2013, one hundred students, faculty members, parents and friends gathered in the Saint John's University Great Hall to celebrate the achievements of some 35 students who placed in the 90th percentile on the national AATG German test. Before and after a hearty lunch of Wienerschnitzel, Spätzele, Rotkohl und Apfelstrudel, event MC Mark Thamert lead the crowd in singing zwei Kanon-Lieder, Für Speis und Trank and Wann und wo?
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| Wienerschnizel, Rotkohl, Spätzele, Salat, Apfelstrudel! |
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| Dear Minnesota German teachers, Congratulations on your superb work on behalf of Minnesota's students of German! |
This year's honored High Schools:
Academy of the Holy Angels
Academy of the Holy Angels
Apple Valley High School
Hermantown High School
Irondale High School
Northfield High School
Rosemont High School
Saint John's Preparatory School
Saint Paul Academy and Summit School
Wayzata High School
And here are some of Minnesota's finest students of German:
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| Andreas Kiryakakis, Jae Cody (MNAATG president) and Lisa Ohm |
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| Jae Cody and Mark Thamert, event MC. |
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| Jae Cody congratulates Matt Mitchell on his being named Minnesota German Teacher of the Year |
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| Jutta Crowder receives the prestigious Concordia Language Villages 4-week summer scholarship on behalf of Saint Paul Academy |
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| Thank you, Lisa Ohm, for organizing such a wonderful event! |
Here is the complete set of 80 photos from the ceremony: AATG banquet 4-27-13
Special thanks to Jutta Crowder, Jim Nagel, Verena Luthy-Clay, Emmy Sack, Susan Sullivan, Rebecca Waterhouse and Jae Cody for being present to support and congratulate some of Minnesota's finest students of German!
Dr. Lisa Ohm Receives Travel Award -- Bonn and Berlin -- from PAD
Anna Lisa Ohm, Department of Modern & Classical Languages/German Studies Program, has been invited to be one of fourteen guests of the Pädagogischer Austauschdienst (Pedagogy Exchange Service) of the German government to participate in a summer study trip to Bonn and Berlin. The travel group is made up of faculty members from across the nation who are members of the AATG (American Association of Teachers of German) and who serve as coordinators in their respective states for the national AATG high school testing program. Travel will take place in early July.
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| Lisa Ohm with colleague Mark Thamert at the Recognition Banquet. |
In December 2012 and January 2013, 540 Minnesota students taking German from seventeen different high schools across the State demonstrated their learning at three different levels in the national written exam. Students are thereby comparing their skills with others on a national level. Minnesota students are doing well, and we hope they continue their study of German in their college years.
Dr. Ohm organized the interviews at CSB for Minnesota high school students who scored 90% or above on the national exam on three different levels. Following the interviews, top-scoring students were invited to a recognition banquet at SJU along with their family members and teachers. The top student, Zoe Novak from St. John’s Prep, received one of the coveted four-week study trips to Germany as a guest of PAD and AATG. While in Germany, Ohm will have an opportunity for the first time to visit with study trip students at their sites in Nürnberg or Berlin. Gute Reise, Dr. Ohm!
Saint John's Prep Student Chosen as National AATG Trip Award Winner 2013
Dear Zoe Novak,
Congratulations! You have been selected as a recipient of the AATG / Pädagogischer Austauschdienst Senior Study Trip to Germany! Your application stood out among the many strong applications from across the nation. The selection committee found your achievements quite outstanding and was particularly impressed with your enthusiasm for German.
As part of this award, you will receive round-trip air transportation from Newark or JFK airport to Germany, In addition to a two-week school and homestay program, you will also attend a special international seminar for two weeks, and participate in excursions to places of cultural and historical significance. Tentative travel dates are July 2–August 2, 2013. Your travel to and from your home to the departure airport is at your own expense.
Keith Cothrun
Executive Director
American Association of Teachers of German
112 Haddontowne Court #104
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
(856) 795-5553
Editor's note: We are proud of you, Zoe -- and your teacher, Emmy Sack.
Editor's note: We are proud of you, Zoe -- and your teacher, Emmy Sack.
Nominations for Teacher of the Year Now Open
We are currently accepting nominations for German Teacher of the Year! If you know a deserving teacher, please nominate him/her. We will consider:
1. Your nomination letter
2. Letters of support from students, former students, colleagues, parents, etc.
3. CV
4. News releases indicating success in the program
Please submit any relevant materials to Jae Cody, MNAATG president (codyx027@umn.edu), by March 31.
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