Summer training - 2 weeks (29.07.24 - 10.08.24) - Package 2: Description
Training 1: Creative German Teaching: German as a Foreign Language with interactive teaching methods (29.07.24 - 02.08.24) >>This training course offers practical handouts and workshops on creative lesson design online and offline as well as on methods of activity-based work and provides tips for short-term lesson planning.
Various topics will be covered with suggestions for playful implementation of grammar lessons with examples of how digital technologies can be used to implement your own teaching material in the areas of listening comprehension, as well as ideas for gamification in the classroom and activation through collaborative work and creative writing. In the final practical transfer, the participants will transfer their new insights into their own working reality and develop programmes to improve lesson design in their everyday lives.
- Get creative ideas for teaching grammar using digital technologies
- Try out collaborative methods for activity-based tasks from the learner's perspective
- Get to know modern lesson design with elements of gamification and creative writing
- Develop new lesson plans for a breath of fresh air in your own lessons
Training 2: Media project work: Modern Methods for activation (05.08.24 - 09.08.24) >>
German is not cool. Or is it? How do you activate young learners, arouse their interest and motivate them to learn? By creatively integrating the language into current phenomena of internet culture, everyone can find access to the difficult and dry foreign language German. The following topics can be worked on in a collaborative, differentiated and interactive way in themed weeks or through project-based work:
- Video production and didactic embedding of self-produced videos
- Challenges to increase motivation in foreign language lessons
- Internet culture for creative storytelling: emojis, memes and gifs
In this training course, teachers are given an overview of current, up-to-date Internet phenomena that are spreading among young Germans all over the world, try out larger projects themselves as part of video production to impart knowledge and plan practical project ideas for their own lessons.
- Get to know the basics of video production (including script templates, editing and sound) and try it out for themselves
- Understand modern, young internet culture and participate independently, e.g. by creating your own memes for the classroom
- Develop your own project ideas and increase learner motivation through interactive methods
Additional Information
Course Level
German C1 and above
Financial Support
You can fully finance this 10-day training programme with an Erasmus+ grant.
Funding example
In the new EU education programme ERASMUS+ you can apply for grants for this training course - travel costs, accommodation, meals and course fees are funded.
In contrast to the previous application practice, the institutions/employers of teachers must now apply for the scholarships from the respective National Agencies - several scholarships can be applied for directly in one application.
When you apply, you do not need to pay a deposit. You only pay if you receive a scholarship. Register now! You will receive a provisional registration certificate immediately.
Additional Services
- Wifi with free internet use in the training centre at Eulerstrasse 50
- Extensive leisure programme in July and August
- Low-cost lunch in the vicinity of the training centre
Additional options
Hotel rooms according to availability: € 988