BIKA overall meeting on 25.01.2017

The very well attended, eighth meeting of the BIKA - Bilingual Kassel AG, which took place on 25.01.2017, was more exciting and fruitful than ever.  First, Tatjana Schrör, student at the University of Kassel, and Christine Glück, trainee teacher at the Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Kassel, received their BIKA certificates for successfully completing the bilingual modules. The unique selling point of the BIKA certificate was underlined                

This was followed by an interesting lecture by Dr. Michael Maset, teacher at the Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Kassel, who together with the participants discussed the question of what a subject-specific teaching model for bilingual history teaching might look like.  

Prof. Dr. Christine Pflüger and Prof. Dr. Claudia Finkbeiner started the second part of the session with the presentation of first results of the PRONET project P9 "Multilingualism potentials in bilingual subject teaching", which is carried out together with Prof. Dr. Bernd Tesch. Mr. Timo Gerke, teacher at Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Schule Kassel, and Mr. Lars Förster, teacher at Modellschule Obersberg Bad Hersfeld, received a certificate of participation for their involvement in the above mentioned project. At the end of the winter semester 2016/17, Mr. Gerke and Mr. Förster as well as their students of their bilingual history courses had supported the project by agreeing to participate in the background survey conducted by Ms. Anna Petzoldt and to audio recordings. The handover was done by Prof Dr Claudia Finkbeiner and Prof Dr Christine Pflüger.

In the last part of the session a stimulating debate took place on various challenges of bilingual teaching and learning.    
Text: Anna Petzoldt