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What’s up at AATG?. Fall 2012 Update. www.aatg.org. Newsletter. Journals. Webinars. Professional Development comes to you!. On Demand Webinars. And more!. ACTFL Convention and World Languages Expo.
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What’s up at AATG? Fall 2012 Update
Webinars Professional Development comes to you! On Demand Webinars And more!
ACTFL Convention and World Languages Expo • Join us in Philadelphia for the largest professional development event for language teachers! • Over 70 sessions for German teachers! • AATG Awards! • Special Event with Cabaret artist Philipp Scharri!
Professional Development Travel Stipend • member of AATG? • first-time attendee at an AATG Annual Meeting / ACTFL Convention and World Languages Expo? • in your first three years of teaching? • K-12 teacher of German or graduate student teaching assistant? • Application deadline: September 15
Summer Seminars • A wide variety of offerings • Kinder in deutschenSchulen • Salzburg intensiv • Tech and Language Kickstart • Der gemeinsameeuropäischeReferenzrahmen und die ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines
AATG Discussion Forum and Jobs List The Discussion Forum connects you with colleagues and provides a venue for useful and helpful discourse on teaching German language and culture. The Jobs List connects you with German teaching positions at all levels of instruction.
Awards • Outstanding German Educator Awardrecognizes excellence in teaching and outstanding contributions to the German teaching profession. Awards are presented to: an elementary, middle school or junior high school educator; a high school educator; and a post-secondary educator. • Friend of German Awardrecognizes exemplary leadership in the advocacy of German and German language education at the local, regional, or national level. Awards are presented to an individual or organization outside the German teaching profession, as well as to a German educator.Goethe-Institut/AATG Certificate of Meritrecognizes achievement in furthering the teaching of German in the US.German Embassy Teacher of Excellence Awardrecognizes up-and-coming teachers who may have started a new program or revitalized an existing one, and contribute to their AATG chapter. • Nominations due May 15, 2013
National German Exam Important Dates
National German Exam Recognizing Success!
German Summer Study Program • 3 Week Homestay • Study at a German Gymnasium • Excursions • Chaperoned by AATG members • AATG Handles all Details • Application Deadline: April 1, 2013 Program costs = $3,595 Scholarships available!
National Honor Society for German Delta Epsilon Phi for High School Junior Delta Epsilon Phi for Middle and Junior High School Epsilon Phi Delta for Community College Recognizing Student Excellence
Show your Pride! AATG Lapel Pins and Polo Shirts
Tell Us What You Think AATG President Kathy Fegely and AATG Staff Contact us! headquarters@aatg.org