German Networking Meeting 2024

Location
Arts Building, Univerity of Birmingham
Dates
Tuesday 17 September 2024 (00:00)

For whom 

All practitioners in German: in schools, FE or HE; students of Modern Languages, students in teacher training, linguists from other languages interested in the topic 

The topic 

will be ‘Authentic Assessment’, by which we mean ‘inclusive assessment’, assessment that reflects students’ interests, tasks that address students as whole persons (e.g. humour, satire, film, song, images and not only writing) and AI-proof assessment. As such, it should not just appeal to Germanists, and you are all cordially invited to participate. 

Registration 

Registration is now closed for this event.

Keynote

Dr Miriam Neigert on ‘Humanizing Assessment’ 

Miriam has been a lecturer at University of New England, Australia, since 2018 and is the Discipline Convenor of German Studies. In 2023, she received a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) 2023, in recognition of the portfolio work she designed and introduced into all the German units at UNE.  

This event will also be a platform to showcase some of our other outreach efforts and partnerships here at the University of Birmingham  

If you have recently published in the area of Teaching German, please let the organisers know / have a copy so that we can display this work appropriately.  

Looking forward to seeing you in Birmingham  

Ruth Whittle, on behalf of the Organising Team  

Programme 

From 9.30                           Registration

9.50                                       Welcome, Housekeeping

10.00                                    Keynote:
                                              Miriam Neigert – Humanizing Assessment, followed by a coffee break

11.15 - 12.30                       Helen Jones – Creative Collaborative Writing Approaches with B1-B2                                                 learners

Britta Schrader – The Promise of Authenticity

Sandra Reisenleutner – Small Adaptations to add authenticity to harmonised assessments

12.30 - 14.00                     lunch break and networking

14.00                                   Ulrike Bavendiek – A Culture-based Portfolio for ab-initio Learners

Jonas Langner – Mediation in Language Learning

Darren Lester – Using CEFR Levels for Meaningful Assessment

15.00                                    Thorsten Egner, Head of Language Courses, Goethe Institut London and                                          Regina Seiwald: Exam partnerships with the Goethe-Institut: Goethe-Zertifikat exams

Edward Boothroyd – Working with NCLE Hub Schools

15.30                                    Break

15.50                                    Doris Zimmermann and John Goodyear – The Midland German Network                                           (Co-Directors of the Midland German Network): Report on the audit of the German learning landscape at primary, secondary and tertiary level in the Midlands

Sandra Reisenleutner – The German Language Teaching Network: possible ways forward

16.10 - 16.30                     Sara Jones - Europe’s East, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: A                                          transnational Education Project – Introduction to Educational Resources for Secondary Schools as well as a pupil and teacher competition

16.30 - 18.00                     Launch of new publications, Reception and Networking

Please also visit our website for updates and the full programme closer to the Meeting. 

You can download the programme here, and download the Abstracts document here.

This Meeting would not be possible without the generous funding provided by the DAAD and the AGS. 

Organising Team

  • Dr Ruth Whittle (Associate Professor, Dept of Modern Languages – German)
  • Dr Regina Seiwald (Deputy Director of Languages for All (LfA) and Subject Lead for LfA German, DAAD Ortslektorin)
  • Dr Edward Boothroyd (Dept of Modern Languages - Schools Liaison Officer and Humanities Teachers’ Network member)
  • Dr Ulrike Bavendiek (Ortslektorin, Liverpool University), Britta Schrader (Ortslektorin, Oxford University)
  • Dr Anna Havinga (Ortslektorin, Bristol University)
  • Dr John Goodyear (Assistant Professor, Dept of Modern Languages and Co-director of the Midland German Network)
  • Ms Nadine Sturm (DAAD Lektorin)