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)