The February 2018 Goethe Institut newsletter has arrived, with lots to offer NSW German teachers.

To keep in touch with the Goethe-Insitut and stay informed about the fantastic range of support they offer to teachers of German, contact Claudia Steiner-Taylor who will add you to the mailing list: Claudia.Steiner-Taylor@goethe.de
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HSC CONTINUERS AND EXTENSION DAY – FREE WORKSHOP
Would you and your students like to prepare for the HSC oral exam with other German learners? The Goethe-Insitut is running a workshop with intensive communicative activities for high school students from different schools, who prepare for the oral exam under the guidance of experienced teachers.

Dates for 2018:
HSC Continuers Day: 4 May 2018
HSC Extension Day: 1 June 2018

Target group: HSC Continuers/Extension
Duration: 9am – 2 pm
Cost: Nil

For more information contact Inken Steeb. 
Ph. 8356 8342

NATIONAL SCHOOL FILM AWARD
Each year students all over Australia produce short films which are screened in the German School Film Festivals in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. The best films from each category in each city are entered in the finale – the German School Film Prize in Australia.

The National German School Film Award 2018 for the winning entries from 2017 with the topic Deutschland im Jahr 3017 will be held as a digital Vote for the Winner event.

VOTE for your favourite school film entry.
The films with the most votes will win the National German School Film Award 2018 and receive a German DVD. The winning films will be announced in mid March.

TEACHING AND LEARNING PROJECTS AND MATERIALS

Kalendar 2018 – Sport in Deutschland
The new 2018 wall calendar has arrived. This year's title is Sport in Deutschland. Each month is presented with an image on the front page and further information on the back page, including statements of young people, interviews, cartoons and statistics. The calendar addresses topics of interest to young people aged between 15 and 25, such as swimming, skiing, climbing, break dance, surfing, vaulting and unicycling. Of course one of the most important topics this year will be soccer. The materials are perfectly suitable for the German class room.  

All pages and additional teaching material for each month are available for download from the Goethe Institut website.

Enterprise German – Unternehmen Deutsch promotes the collaboration between schools and German companies/or Australian companies with a relationship to German speaking countries within the region. Applications for Term 2, 2018 are now open. 

Lego Mindstorms – robotics and coding in German

LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 is a robot composed of a programmable computer, motors and sensors. The robots can be built into different models using LEGO bricks. Depending on the complexity of the project LEGO MINDSTORMS are suited to students from Years 5 to 9.

Coding with Blue-Bot: resources for primary schools (K–2)

Blue-Bot is a small robot that can be programmed using a tablet or PC or with the arrows on the robot itself. Through this coding game students adopt new skills in Digital Technologies and learn German at the same time. Additionally, with the Goethe-Institut’s classroom mats other learning areas can be integrated in the German lessons.

The Goethe Institut Sydney is running German courses for students in Years 10-12 in both the January and April school holidays 2018. HSC preparation courses are available for Continuers and Extension students from Monday 22 to Thursday 25 January, and from Monday 16 to Friday 20 April. The courses address the themes and topics specified in the syllabuses.

An intensive grammar course is also available in Terms 1 and 2 2018.  

For more information, visits the Goethe Institut website or contact Mignon Uebele at the Goethe Institut Sydney. 

Stay informed of all the latest news and events from the Goethe-Institut: Contact Claudia Steiner-Taylor to sign up to the Goethe-Insitute Newsletter for Teachers. 

Expressions of interest are invited from teachers interested in relieving in the position of German teacher for 2018 at Smith's Hill High School, Wollongong. The position will be for 2018, with the possibility of extension. The relieving teacher will be able to deliver the German program for Stages 4, 5 and 6, including German Extension. The ability to teach another language would be an advantage.

An expression of interest not exceeding 2 A4 pages should be submitted to David Deitz, Principal by 5pm on 27 October 2017. The EOI requires the signature of the applicant's current principal or supervisor.

For further information, contact Janet Morris on (02) 4229 4266 or janet.morris@det.nsw.edu.au.

The latest edition of the Goethe-Institut newsletter for teachers is now online. Stay in touch with opportunities for professional learning and German events by signing up to have each new addition of the newsletter emailed to you.

The Goethe Institute 2018 German Summer School on Ocean Street will run from 8-15 January 2018 (program attached below). This event provides a targeted immersion experience for German learners/teachers at various levels of language competence, and also offers a five-day professional learning module for teachers with a language level of B1 and above.

The Summer School will be run as a day program at the Goethe Institute in Woollarah (Sydney) this year, rather than in a residential format, so attendees will need to organise their own accommodation for the week. The Summer School is open to both government and non-government teachers.

The NSW Department of Education would like to support secondary German teachers from NSW public schools to attend this valuable professional learning event and is offering up to five partial scholarships to secondary teachers of German currently employed in NSW public schools.

The scholarships will cover 50% of the event registration fee plus up to $500 towards accommodation and travel expenses. 

Note: Members of the NSW MLTA are also eligible to apply for funding for up to 50% of the event registration cost. 

If you are a secondary teacher of German in a NSW public school, and are interested in receiving support to attend this professional learning event, please complete the attached EOI and return it with a one page supporting statement to Michelle Walls by 5pm on Friday 17 November  2017. 

If you have any questions regarding the scholarship opportunity, please contact Michelle Walls on (02) 9244 5573 or via email. 

The Goethe-Institut Sydney is pleased to announced the opening of a new Teachers' Resource Centre in Sydney. The new 'Goethe Collection' can now be found in the library of North Sydney Boys High School. These resources include German books and DVDs and provide useful materials for both teachers and students of German.

The catalogue can be viewed via the Softlink Oliver system. Alternatively, you may wish to visit the library in person. North Sydney Boys High School Library is located at 365 Pacific Highway (cnr Pacific Highway and David St), Crows Nest NSW 2065.

For further inquiries please contact:
Teachers' Resource Centre, Goethe-Institut Australien, Sydney
90 Ocean St, Woollahra NSW 2025
E: info@sydney.goethe.org T: (02) 8356 8333

As Cherrybrook High School is discontinuing their German courses, they are giving away all the German textbooks that have been accumulated over a 20 year period. These textbooks include several sets of Feuerwerk and Katzenspung textbooks. If you are interested in obtaining some of these resources for your school, please contact Nicola Dracakis within the next six weeks to ensure that you don't miss out on these resources before they are disposed of.