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  Welcome to the web site of the North Carolina Chapter of the AATG, the American Association of Teachers of German.
The NCAATG seeks to promote and improve the teaching of German in North Carolina, to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among teachers of German, and to promote a sense of joint effort and a spirit of cooperation and fellowship among its members. In this effort we are being supported by our national office as well as the Goethe-Institut New York.
Any teacher of German or anyone interested in the teaching of German may join the chapter and the national organization. If you are interested in becoming a member, please consult our constitution and by-laws and see the information on the national page. We would love to have you! (Once you become a member of AATG, and you register an address in North Carolina, you will automatically be assigned to the NC chapter). If you are a member but have not been receiving messages through the chapter's listserv, please contact the webmaster.
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| Job Openings |
April 14, 2008 |
Announcing THREE NEW GERMAN POSITIONS in Burke County, NC, as part of a county-wide program to enhance foreign language learning in grades K-12.
Teachers will be based at a county middle school and teach exploratory German (grade 6), and articulated level 1A/1B (grades 7-8) initially; more levels/ages later on. Teachers will also work in conjunction with feeder elementary schools to build enrollment for German by traveling via the "Art-FL" bus, a rotating art/foreign language bus, that brings German, French, and art instruction to elementary schools.
Due to federal support for this program (FLAP grant=Foreign Language Assistance Program, US Dept. of Education) these positions have lots of benefits for teachers!
- fully-funded professional development (immersion institutes) each summer (these earn academic credit towards certification/recertification; w/teacher stipend!)--STARTS JULY 14, 2008!
- funds for materials development, textbooks, etc.
- travel funds for local conferences
The collaborative project brings together all FL teachers of the county to collaborate, build excitement for FL learning, and grow as teachers and German speakers. We're very excited to offer this opportunity and hope to receive many applications. Click here to learn more.
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Save the Dates!
2008 Fall Conference: 29-30 August 2008 at Appalachian State University.
Topic: Theatre
Workshops led by Michael Höfig (Goethe Institute New York) and Tin Wegel (UNC Chapel Hill).
Hosted by Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand.
2008 Deutsches Wochenende: 14-15 November 2008 at Camp Caraway.
Topic: Mein Haus ist dein Haus
Organized by Marilyn Metzler and Jim Propst.
2009 Spring Conference: 14 February 2009 at UNC Greensboro.
Topic: TBA
Hosted by Susanne Rinner.
German Day 2009: March 2009 at UNC Chapel Hill.
Hosted by Dick Langston.
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Study Trip Awards.
On the AATG National German Exam, 85 students in North Carolina scored above the 90th percentile as non-native speakers and without having spent more than two weeks in a German-speaking country, and were thus eligible to apply for one of the study trips. Of this group 15 (or 18% of those eligible) applied for a study trip. There were no applicants for the senior study trip this year, making the competition for the regular study trip that much more fierce.
Our Testing Chair, Scott Denham, reviewed the written applications carefully and interviewed every applicant for about 15 minutes during a scheduled telephone interview. We could not be more pleased that, once again, North Carolina will be among those states sending a student to Germany.
Please join us in congratulating Ryan Minster and his teacher, Susan David, of Mount Tabor High School for winning the regular study trip award.
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The Duden Award is presented annually to an outstanding teacher to honor efforts and achievement in teaching German. This year’s recipient is Linda Horvath of Providence High School in Charlotte. We have so many great and dedicated teachers in North Carolina that this award is a difficult one to assign to only one of you. The decision was based on test participation (Linda had 93 students take the exam!), student achievement on the test (17% of those scored above the 90th percentile!), students applying for the study trips (6 of 15 applicants were Linda’s students!), and a secret consultation with the local Heinzelmännchen who live on the shelves behind the German literature books in the Davidson College library. Alle Achtung, Frau Kollegin!
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The Langenscheidt Award is given annually for outstanding effort and achievement in the study of German. We're pleased to announce that Jesse Crouch, a German 3 student of Brigitte Woloszyn at Career Center, is the 2008 winner. Jesse is also a national alternate for the regular study trip to Germany. Congratulations to both!!
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GLOW National German Achievement Award
The new GLOW National German Achievement Award goes this year to NC’s highest-scoring German 4 student who has not been in a German-speaking country for more than two weeks. Evelyn Curtis, a student of Madeleine Schwartz at Leesville Road High School is our inaugural GLOW Award Winner. (GLOW stands for the German Language Opportunities Website. Have a look!)
Congratulations, Evelyn!
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German Day 2008 (6 March 2008 at Elon University) was great fun, many thanks to all the students, teachers, judges, and chaperones who helped make it a memorable event. Our special thanks to the host and organizer, Scott Windham, for all his hard work and patience. We look forward to seeing you again for German Day 2009 at UNC Chapel Hill!
View the results of the 2008 competitions here.
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Help is on the Way!
Sönke Lorenz, Deputy Consul General in Atlanta, has offered to help in any way he can in order to maintain German programs in the state. If your program is threatened, please don't hesitate to contact him at by email.
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Congratulations!
Congratulations to Patrick Bradshaw of Carrboro High School who received grants from both the Goethe-Institut as well as the Public School Foundation of Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools to attend a seminar entitled Landeskunde und Methodik / Didaktik fuer junge Deutschlehrer/-innen in Berlin from June 15-July 5.
Kudos to Stacy Feldstein of Providence High School in Charlotte! Stacy has been selected as a participant in Mündliche Kompetenz im Unterricht amerikanischer High-Schools: Theorie, Praxis,
Evaluierung und Didaktik (MUTPED). The scholarship will take her to the University of Leipzig from June 28-July 26.
Congratulations to Michelle Boaz of Davie High School and Bradley Seawell of North Mecklenburg High School who have been selected from among a large group of very strong applicants
for a fellowship to the 2008 Akademie DeutschlandStudien in Wittenberg, June 15-July 7, 2008.
We're very proud ... and very envious!
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| Reports |
December 28, 2007 |
Thanks to all of you, we had another fantastic year.
View the 2007 NCAATG Activities Report (pdf) here, submitted to AATG on 28 December 2007.
Happy New Year, everybody!
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Life Membership in AATG for $1,500
Great news out of New Jersey, the price for a life membership in AATG has been reduced from $3,000 to $1,500!
We realize a life membership is not for everyone but if you can at all afford it, you may want to consider this option as you renew your membership for 2008. It's a great deal and you'll be supporting a worthwhile cause. Of course, you'll still be receiving the same benefits you're accustomed to (the journals, special member prices on teaching materials, the quarterly newsletters and Infoblätter, invitations to AATG workshops and professional development seminars, etc.), and you'll never have to worry about future dues increases.
Let's help make AATG stronger than ever. Click here to become a life member.
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Dear Colleagues!
There is no doubt that German Studies is an enormous enterprise in North Carolina, one that encompasses all kinds of institutions of learning both big and small. Efforts are underway to strengthen the intellectual and pedagogical riches that we German Studies scholars and instructors bring to this state. The North Carolina German Studies Seminar and Workshop will commence beginning this fall and will provide us all with opportunities to exchange new ideas and forge new cooperative bonds. We invite you to visit the web site of this interdisciplinary and inter-institutional initiative and consider joining colleagues from around the state in Chapel Hill as we meet to listen and learn from one another.
Sincerely,
Richard Langston (UNC-Chapel Hill)
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| From the Webmaster |
August 3, 2007 |
The webmaster kindly requests that new members submit their email address to him. These addresses will not be posted but will only be used to disseminate the communications of the Executive Council and its officers to the membership, typically through the listserv (see also ncaatg-l).
The webmaster would also like to continue the publication of job openings in North Carolina and encourages submission of any openings to the President, Burkhard Henke.
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