An accompanying project to the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023™
Online Professional Learning

20 April 2023   6:00-7:00pm AEST   10:00-11:00am CET   

Bring the sympathetic players of the Germany women's national football team right into the classroom and get inspired by funny video statements and fantastic ideas for flexible, creative, interactive and action-oriented use of these in your lessons.

 
Anke Szczepanski has been working in the field of German as a foreign language for 20 years: as a teacher at the Goethe-Institut New Zealand, as a trainer with DLL-Deutsch Lehren Lernen - the Goethe-Institut's training series - and in the field of digital teaching and learning, as well as an author for online training and teaching materials. She comes from a soccer-loving family, so she is already looking forward to the Women's World Cup in Australia/New Zealand 2023. 
 

23 May 2023   6:00-7:00pm AEST   10:00-11:00am CET 
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How can we use our students' interest in women's soccer to strengthen their linguistic knowledge and skills, introduce them to film language and at the same time promote their critical thinking skills, creativity and intercultural understanding? In this training seminar, many practical examples for different age groups and levels will be shown how film elements (including film clips, trailers, etc.) can be incorporated into German as a foreign language lessons and used in a variety of ways. 

Dr Judith Rifeser is a language and media educator whose teaching and research focuses on how authentic texts and especially the medium of film (and filmmaking) and philosophical approaches can help foster intercultural understanding and creativity. Most recently, she has been Director of Teacher Education in Foreign Languages (Secondary PGCE) at Goldsmiths, University of London, having been Head of A-Level classes in German and Co-Head of A-Level classes in Spanish in an English school, as well as being responsible for the school's in-service training program for teachers. Previously, she worked as a foreign language teacher at UCL, Institute of Education (IoE), and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, among other places, as well as at various primary and secondary schools in Germany and abroad. She was a network partner for the UK of the OeAD Culture and Language. She sits on the board of the Association for Language Learning (ALL) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has published several articles and book chapters and is currently writing her first book. Her short films have been screened at the London Feminist Film Festival and the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) London, among others.  

@rifjudy https://independentscholar.academia.edu/DrJudithRifeser 

22 June 2023   6:00-7:00pm AEST   10:00-11:00am CET
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"Some people think soccer is a matter of life and death. I can assure you, it's a lot more important than that." Bill Shankley  

Soccer is (not only in Germany) so much more than a mass sport, namely a social and global phenomenon: whether we talk about club life and fan culture, about violence and discrimination, about commercialization and corruption, about soccer as a cultural, linguistic, literary, musical or cinematic topic - there are many ways to approach the topic of soccer and to integrate it into your German lessons. It doesn't matter whether you are a soccer enthusiast or an expert. In this workshop, teaching ideas and suggestions for different language levels will be presented and discussed. 

Julia Birnbaum-Crowson studied German as a foreign and second language, literature and cultural studies at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. In addition to longer stays abroad in Poland, Ukraine and the USA, she has been teaching German as a foreign and second language for over 15 years, conducts teacher training courses for foreign German teachers (including for the Goethe Institute, the German Society Abroad and the DAAD) and, together with like-minded people, founded the non-profit association aubiko e.V. based in Hamburg in 2014, which focuses on intercultural education projects. aubiko e.V. initiates and organizes, among other things, language courses, youth encounter projects, student exchanges, intercultural training and educational trips. More information can be found at www.aubiko.de. 

4 July 2023   6:00-7:00pm AEST   10:00-11:00am CET

"That was a foul!", "Did you see that goal?", "The referee has tomatoes in his eyes!". Soccer generates emotions. Soccer is intercultural. Soccer needs (no) language. As a globally important sport that is very present in the lives of learners, soccer opens up a wide range of opportunities not only to promote the basic skills of reading, listening, writing, and speaking, but also to deal with important social aspects surrounding the topic of (women's) soccer. 

"Mit Deutsch ins Tor!" tries to use the emotions and motivations of the learners to create a learning environment that is both effective and activating by linking soccer and language. This online seminar is intended to provide you with suggestions, methods and didactic approaches for using the medium of soccer in a goal-oriented way, e.g. for vocabulary work, for expanding linguistic means, as a speech stimulus and for speech production. Based on the project "Mit Deutsch ins Tor" (With German into the Goal), linguistic as well as sportive learning stations are presented, played and classified with regard to their didactic potential in German lessons. So that your students will soon be able to say: "Play flat, win high!" Materials and game forms are presented that are suitable for both online and face-to-face teaching.
 
Dr. Johannes Heuzeroth and Dr. Wolf Zippel form the experienced team of authors and trainers dhoch2. They work as teachers, authors, lecturers and translators in various places in Germany and worldwide 

27 July 2023   6:00-7:00pm AEST   10:00-11:00am CET 
 
How can we use authentic texts to engage with issues of racism and equality (e.g. #equalplayequalpay) together with our students of German? How can this be mastered already at the lower levels? Here, we address these questions and explore various ideas together using diverse texts (including videos, newspaper clippings, interviews, etc.) that can be taken directly back to the classroom. It is especially important to show how authentic texts are an important source to give our students the opportunity to actively participate, to express their opinions and to perceive them as citizens of this world. 

Dr Judith Rifeser is a language and media educator whose teaching and research focuses on how authentic texts and especially the medium of film (and filmmaking) and philosophical approaches can help foster intercultural understanding and creativity. Most recently, she has been Director of Teacher Education in Foreign Languages (Secondary PGCE) at Goldsmiths, University of London, having been Head of A-Level classes in German and Co-Head of A-Level classes in Spanish in an English school, as well as being responsible for the school's in-service training program for teachers. Previously, she worked as a foreign language teacher at UCL, Institute of Education (IoE), and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, among other places, as well as at various primary and secondary schools in Germany and abroad. She was a network partner for the UK of the OeAD Culture and Language. She sits on the board of the Association for Language Learning (ALL) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has published several articles and book chapters and is currently writing her first book. Her short films have been screened at the London Feminist Film Festival and the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) London, among others. 
 
@rifjudy https://independentscholar.academia.edu/DrJudithRifeser

31 August 2023   6:00-7:00pm AEST   10:00-11:00am CET  

In this workshop, we will review the Women's World Cup and look at which important topics were reported on in the media - including social media -, and which culturally relevant discussions for the classroom result from this. You will take away examples of questions as well as suggestions for forms of work with which you can not only initiate reflection in class, but also convey a current image of Germany. 

Han Diola has been working at the Goethe-Institut in the South East Asia, New Zealand and Australia region for 14 years. Her current work focuses on culture-based learning, including raising awareness and teaching soft skills such as reflection skills and media literacy. Her goal is to make such skills more tangible and to concretize the teaching of soft skills in the classroom.