Presentation in Study Visit Grup.No. 192 (Barcelona), March 2012

1. Social Dimension of languages learning
Teacher Trainer
Margit Engelmann
Germany
von Saldern-Gymnasium
Europaschule
 Education System in the Federal Republic of Germany
 Grammar School von Saldern- Gymnasium- Europaschule
 The State Institute for school and Media Berlin- Brandenburg
Learning languages policies
 Innovative programmes for European Plurilingualism
 Strategies for inclusion and student entrepreneurship
 Challenges using ICT
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2. • The National Integration Plan
created a new foundation for integration policy in Germany: Federal,
state and local governments as well as representatives of civil society
and immigrants agreed on a long-term integration policy.
• Germany's position as a country of integration
• Learning German is an essential precondition for successful integration.
• Since its introduction in 2005, the integration course has been the most
important federal measure of integration policy.
• Cooperation between the Federal Government and the Länder
• Lifelong learning, Concept for Lifelong Learning
• Innovation in Education,Concept for innovation:
o Sprachförderung: Promotion of language skills
o Interkulturelle Bildung: Intercultural education
o Medienbildung: Media education
o Unterstützungssysteme: Supporting systems
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3. Innovative programmes for European Pluringualism
National Action Plan for Integration
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4. Multilingualism – Languages Without Borders
• Living and promoting •
Features on multilingualism and
multilingualism is essential for education, politics, arts and
intercultural dialogue, cultural economics deal with these questions.
Numerous projects worldwide have
diversity and therefore the
also tackled the subject of
successful convergence of multilingualism – from competitions
Europe. Authors, scientists, for schoolchildren and workshops to
experts and journalists highlight the international “Languages without
different aspects of Borders” conference.
multilingualism. • Contact with Languages –
Researchers in Greifswald Discuss the
• Closing Event "Languages without Borders" Issues
(Germany)
• Plea For The First Foreign Language – One's Secondos: cultivating and promoting bicultu
• Own
• Multilinguals And Education" – • Alphabet Soup at Kindergarten: Multilingua
Multilingual Didactics • Todo Alemán: With Soccer and Fun to Multil
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5. Sprachförderung: Promotion of language skills
Interkulturelle Bildung: Intercultural education
 The world is studying German –  Sprechen Sie Deutsch???
current statistics on the 2010
learning curve
• Children who help others to
understand
• Almost As Many Native Tongues As Pupils – Linguistic Integration in Germany
• Learning by Teaching: The Goal is Indep
• Cultural Languages – Remarks on the Prevailing Linguistic Situation
• Learning languages in a virtual classroo
• The Brain Has Room for Many Languages
• Multimedia-Based Learning: Laptops in
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6. Strategies for inclusion and student entrepreneurship
Developing entrepreneurship -
• Teachers are important role
• necessary for lifelong learning models. A positive attitude
• overall ethos of showing initiative, among young people in schools
and fostering creativity and innovation
toward
• knowledge related to this available
• Teachers are important role
opportunities for personal,
professional and/or business activities models. A positive attitude
• proactive project management (to among young people in schools
plan, organise, manage, lead and toward
delegate,etc.), effective • entrepreneurship, innovation and
representation and negotiation, and reorientation requires that
the ability to work both individually teachers have knowledge of this
and collaboratively in teams
• in teacher training, and also
• federal German government supports
provide
projects which bring entrepreneurial
thinking to schools (Some examples) • courses in competence
development to working teachers
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7. A
Challenges using ICT
• Equipment of classrooms with digital media is still very low
• only 7.5 percent of cases each student in the classroom, a PC, notebook
or netbook available.
• The use of digital media in German schools is still characterized by
shortages - particularly in computers
• classic standard software , lack of concepts, the small number of training
and non-scholastic software and hardware for the digital media
• more than half of teachers to online content for their lessons or preparing
lessons
• Nearly two-thirds of respondents saw drastic improvement in this area
• digital media have opened the way to school, but not found in the
classroom
• high level of personal use and use for class preparation
• lack of methodological and didactic concepts, appropriate training and
custom hardware and software to successfully integrate digital media into
the classroom.
• 121 €, parents were annually prepared to invest
• also very conceptual support for the schools needed
(key results of the education program "Digital Media in Schools" Initiative
D21 , which interviewed by Cornelsen and Texas Instruments supports and
for which TNS over 300 teachers from all over Germany who teach
mathematics or a science subject)
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8. Innovation in education
• Our school system must enable more children and young people to earn
higher education qualifications
• In schools, the strengths and individual abilities and background of each
child must be in the centre. The principle of challenging and supporting
must be followed consistently.
• The capital investment program "Zukunft Bildung und Betreuung" (future
education and care) is a federal measure to support the Länder in building
up and expanding all-day schooling in Germany. The program is one step
in an educational reform supported by federal and state governments. To
date, more than 8.200 schools profit from the capital investment program.
• All- day schools.Time for more - Education needs time!
(program "Ideas for more! Learning all the day“: Half a day is too short for
explaining the world!)
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