Post-Workshop Update:
A big thanks to all of the participants who attended this workshop! We thoroughly enjoyed having you and appreciate your contributions on the different instructional materials discussed. We hope you enjoyed it!
We'll be posting the PowerPoint from the morning session and a recap of our afternoon session on a password-protected netfiles server. We encourage you to upload any additional materials you develop for Seidenhaar and Türkish für Anfänger to the server. You should receive an email with this information soon.
If you were not able to attend the workshop, but would like to receive lesson plans and other workshop materials (e.g., PPT), please contact Cori Crane for more information.
June 23, 2010
A big thanks to all of the participants who attended this workshop! We thoroughly enjoyed having you and appreciate your contributions on the different instructional materials discussed. We hope you enjoyed it!
We'll be posting the PowerPoint from the morning session and a recap of our afternoon session on a password-protected netfiles server. We encourage you to upload any additional materials you develop for Seidenhaar and Türkish für Anfänger to the server. You should receive an email with this information soon.
If you were not able to attend the workshop, but would like to receive lesson plans and other workshop materials (e.g., PPT), please contact Cori Crane for more information.
June 23, 2010
Migration and Cultural Identity in the German Classroom:
A Pedagogical Workshop for High School and College Teachers of German
Friday, June 18, 2010
10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.
(Coffee and pastries served at 9:30 a.m.)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
404 Illini Union
1401 West Green St., Urbana, IL
Cori Crane, Sarah Henneböhl, and Robbie Nagel
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In this all-day workshop, participants will:
- Learn about an instructional unit for an intermediate German course at the University of Illinois on German-Turkish relations (esp. the "head scarf debate")
- Learn about pedagogical activities that represent a literacy approach to teaching texts and videos (with examples from the recent youth novel Seidenhaar)
- Work together to create new classroom materials for two episodes of the hit TV comedy series Türkisch für Anfänger
- A copy of Seidenhaar and a DVD of the German comedy Türkisch für Anfänger
- A CD-Rom and binder with instructional materials from the Seidenhaar unit and transcripts from selected scenes of Türkisch für Anfänger
Apprenticing teachers of German are especially welcome!
For interest in this event, or for more information, please contact: Prof. Cori Crane (ccrane@illinois.edu), 3101 Foreign Language Building
This workshop is generously supported through the European Union Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
For interest in this event, or for more information, please contact: Prof. Cori Crane (ccrane@illinois.edu), 3101 Foreign Language Building
This workshop is generously supported through the European Union Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.