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SPOTLIGHT
Goethe Institute Offers Five Scholarships for AATG Members
Spaß am Lehren!
The
Goethe Institute has once again announced that it will
sponsor five scholarships for AATG members to attend the
Teacher Seminar Program at Concordia
Language Villages this summer. Join language teachers from
across the United States for a ten-day summer graduate
course at the Villages to adapt our immersion techniques to
your classroom setting! Upon successful completion of the
course, three semester hours of graduate credit are earned
through Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. The
application for the scholarship can be found
here.
WALDSEE SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMS
NEU! Four Week German Immersion for Middle
Schoolers!
Waldsee Radio DJs - Live on the air!
Eager to boost
enrollment for your high school German classes? Let’s work
together to excite kids in middle school about German, so
that when they get to high school they want to sign up to
learn with you! Starting this summer,
Waldsee is offering a four week
immersion language program for kids in grades 6-8. The same
fun and excitement of Waldsee’s core program awaits,
but with more depth of experience and important preparation
for earning high school credit. Encourage parents and
siblings to join us at Waldsee for a four week
adventure in German language and culture – they’ll
return home ready to learn more with you!
Click here for more information.
WALDSEE ABROAD
$2500 Scholarships available for Waldsee Credit Abroad!
A presentation by a student participant at the
local train station.
The Max Kade Foundation is generously sponsoring several
$2500 scholarships for students to help defray the costs.
Waldsee Abroad
is an excellent opportunity for students who would like to
go to Germany this summer, but whose school district does
not offer such a program. In order to be eligible
for the scholarships, students must apply by March 15, 2007.
In order to be eligible to participate, students must be
between the ages of 15 and 18, have had a minimum of two
years of German, have an interest in traveling, studying,
and living with a host family in our sister city Bad Waldsee.
Click
here for further
information
and
here for
scholarship application materials.
WALDSEE SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMS
Two-Week and Four-Week German Programs
At Waldsee, the whole village is our "classroom"
Waldsee
offers a unique opportunity for students to keep up
their German over the summer. Our core
two-week program energizes students and
returns them to your class room ready to go for another
year. Our
four-week high school credit program
offers students the opportunity to earn a full year's credit
in German. Many of our credit students report that the
program solidified what they had been learning during the
year and many were able to skip ahead a year to take German
5 or 6. This summer we are also offering two unique
adventure credit programs. Students can earn credit for medieval
adventures in the magical Märchenwald (forest of
legends) or world-class environmental immersion experiences
with the Grüne Welle nature quest. Students with at
least three years of German and are in high school can
consider earning
college credit by exploring modern German
perspectives on the world. At Waldsee, students learn
German by doing German – while making friends from all over
the world.
WALDSEE SITE NEWS
Das Waldsee BioHaus
Planting the Extensive Green Roof
Das BioHaus,
Waldsee’s newest residence, is a one-of-a-kind Wunderland of discovery. The whole experience is
unvergesslich! – unforgettable! "Das BioHaus is
a transformational experience,” say Waldsee Deans Berndt und Karl. “Kids eat, sleep, play, clean and learn
in the most modern new residence you can imagine. This is
modern Europe – and this is the right way to experience
German language and German culture.”
The BioHaus was designed just for kids. It is fun, it
is comfortable, it is interactive, it is fast-paced – and it
uses 85% less energy than a comparable American building.
There’s simply nothing like it on either side of the
Atlantic. Explore the Earth Tube. Bake pizza in your
home-made solar oven. Take the pulse of the building. What
size is your ecological footprint? Why was the wood of a BioHaus window frame harvested during a full moon? Get
up on the roof – literally! Our grünes Dach – green
roof -- is an awesome opportunity for villagers to get down
and dirty with mother nature, exploring earth-friendly
technology and cutting-edge architecture – alles auf
Deutsch, natürlich!
Das Waldsee BioHaus
-- America's lowest energy
building in America's highest energy German program! Alles übercool, Mann.
YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMS
Erleben Sie mit Ihren Schülern ein Waldseewochende mit!
Entdecke deine Sinne beim Waldsee Sinnespfad!
„Die Schüler kehren
mit sehr viel Begeisterung ins Klassenzimmer zurück.“
So berichtete neulich eine Deutschlehrerin, die ihre Schüler
an einem
Waldseewochenende begleitet hatte. Jedes
Jahr bringen viele Lehrer ihre Deutschschüler nach Waldsee,
dem deutschen Sprachdorf, um so ein Wochenendenprogramm zu
erfahren. Die am Donnerstag oder am Freitag beginnenden
Wochenenden bieten den jungen Leuten die Kultur der
Deutschsprachlichen Ländern an, durch Spielen, Simulationen,
Musik, Essen, Geschichten, Handwerk und andere Erfahrungen.
Sie lernen andere Schüler kennen, die mit ihnen ein
Interesse für Deutsch teilen. Die Lehrer haben die
Gelegenheit mit anderen in ihrem Bereich Erfahrungen und
Ideen zu tauschen.
Um einen Vorteil aus Waldsees neuem Passivhaus zu ziehen,
haben dieses Jahr die deutschen Wochenenden „Energie“ als
Thema. Energie, zusammen mit Umwelt und Naturschutz, bildet
eine Basis für viel, was am Wochenende vorkommt. Und, wie
immer, macht das alles den Teilnehmern viel Spaß.
GUTE IDEE!
Cool Ideas for the German
Classroom
Namensschilder aus Waldsee
Have you ever wanted to replicate in your classroom some of
the great language experiences from the Waldsee
program, but weren’t sure how? A new book, Gute Idee!
will soon be available to help you do just that. This book
is based on the Concordia Language Villages language
learning principles and includes many best practices
directly from the Waldsee program. Here are some
examples of the units you will be able to use:
Sprachmeister, Herkunft und deine Familie, Bist du ein
Struwwelpeter? Gesundheit und Wellness, Auf dem Sinnespfad,
Podcasting und Klassenradio, and many more. Gute Idee
will join TPRS Storytelling and the Songs of Waldsee
and Waldsee Lieder and accompanying CDS -- all
available through the AATG store -- as a resource for
teachers everywhere. Waldsee and Concordia Language
Villages want to help you do what you do best: TEACH and, by
excellent teaching, create excitement for foreign language
learning.
Deutsch ist COOL! Natürlich!
Schnitzeljagd Contest!
YOUR STUDENTS CAN WIN A
FREE TWO-WEEK SCHOLARSHIP
TO WALDSEE
Racletteessen
in Waldsee
We are eager to work with you
and other German teachers to boost interest and
enrollments in the teaching of German. We’d like to
offer your students the chance to win a free
two-scholarship to Waldsee this summer.
Click here for a fun
Internet Schnitzeljagd for your students to
fill out – it’s a good way for them to practice
their German and find out about our German
adventures. We've extended our deadline-- just have
them fill it out and send it to us by February 15,
2007. A drawing will be held of all correct entries
and we will announce the winner in our March
Waldsee Rundbrief by email!
If you have any
questions, please call 1-800-222-4750 or email
clv@cord.edu.
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