Teaching Demonstration

During the challenging year of 2020/2021 many of my classes were fully remote or hybrid. My teaching methods evolved to create methods to allow online students to participate in class in an interactive way. For this purposes I created many slide presentations, which I either prerecorded, or presented in Zoom meetings via the Pear-Deck-Goggle-Add-On-App. An example of a prerecorded slide presentation can be found on the Technology evidence page in form of the "Familie - Video". To the left you can view the slides for a Pear Deck presentation on German New Years traditions.

During the MAFLT 2021 FLEX conference I presented on "Increasing student engagment by utilizing the Pear Deck App." You can view my presentation to the left.

The video on the left is an example of an "I see, I think, I wonder" exercise. For this exercise I created a Google-Jamboard picture prompt. Students then write what they see, think and wonder about on their own section of the Jamboard. This exercise practices higher order-subordinating-sentences, as students must explain their thoughts. I often utilize this type of exercise as a warm-up in the beginning of my class. Here you can find the PDF-file for one of my students answers. This is a Zoom recording of a session with some of my German II low intermediate students.

I believe in providing students with authentic input. Here I utilized a short video from the German Kids-Newsreport "Logo-Nachrichten" After the class watched the video we discuss the key elements of the video. As homework students then worked on the "Logo-Nachrichten-Arbeitsblatt". They had to find and define 10 key vocabulary words, summarize briefly what the content of the video was and they have to identify the intended audience.

This is an exercise, which I utilize as a warm up activity. It activates student knowledge about a subject and can be utilized as a speaking activity in which students exchange the facts that they know about a theme. The information can be utilized for future writing or speaking activities. Here is an example of a completed GoGoMo page from one of my German II students.