We are currently working in partnership with teachers, trainers and policy makers from across Germany on a variety of ELT projects.

Current, recent and planned projects include:

• 'next generation influencers in English language teaching' - formation of a network of younger teacher trainers and teachers from each Land which meets twice a year in an informal atmosphere to share experience in policy areas, such as the European Language Portfolio, the transition from primary to secondary English, best practice in teacher training, or assessment of oral production.
  
  The next meeting will take place at the Reinhardswaldschule in Fuldatal (Hessen) on 18/19 November. We will revisit the topic of "assessment of oral production”. Please click here for information on former meetings and a summary of the findings from our last meeting on oral production. More details
  
  
• providing teacher training courses from autumn 2005 to spring 2006 for grammar school teachers from Berlin. The courses will demonstrate the use of contemporary media and texts to cover topics in the new curriculum, ranging from contemporary issues in Britain to cultural diversity and tradition in order to raise intercultural awareness. Teachers interested in registering should contact the local LISUM teacher training institute.
  
  
• providing teacher training in October 2005 for secondary school teachers in Saxony who teach the gymnasiale Oberstufe. The course focuses on the use of contemporary media and texts to deal with cultural diversity, covering integration and exclusion in order to raise cultural awareness. Teachers interested in registering should contact the local SALF teacher training institute.
  
  
• providing teacher training in November 2005 for secondary school teachers from Brandenburg who teach the Sekundarstufe II. The course focuses on the use of contemporary media and texts to deal with contemporary issues in Britain, from globalisation and the environment, through postcolonial literature and the UK as a multicultural society. Teachers interested in registering should contact the local LISUM teacher training institute.
  
  
• organising a “Hornby Summer School” for July 2005 in Berlin on Change Management in ELT contexts: education managers, trainers, head teachers etc. from Germany and wider Europe come together at the former threshold between East and West to have two weeks of intensive training, networking and sharing of best practice. More details
  
  
• providing teacher training in Content and Language Integrated Learning: a one month roadshow in November 2003 given by a British expert on bilingual learning covering seven German Länder; workshops with pupils and teachers around Germany within the framework of the British Council campaign “Exploring the Solar System” in May/June 2004 (including the building of robots and launching of rockets with teachers and pupils in English!); a week of teacher training workshops in Dessau, Leipzig, Chemnitz and Dresden in September 2004. More details
  
  
• support for an IATEFL conference in November 2004 in Munich. The conference was on Learning English through Picture Books and hoped to identify ways picture books can be used to enhance English teaching in the primary classroom. For more information: www.picturebooks.org
  
  
• support for setting up a Junior Language Assistant pilot programme between the Education Ministry in Saxony and Liverpool City Council, starting in December 2004. Gap year students (between school and university) from Germany and Britain spend two to three months abroad assisting foreign language teachers in primary schools
  
  
• “Hornby Summer School” for 2005 in Berlin : teachers from Germany and Eastern European countries come together at the former threshold between East and West to have two weeks of intensive training, networking and sharing of best practice
  
  
• providing teacher training workshops for grammar school teachers from Berlin on the new topics in the curriculum, using modern media and on the assessment of the new obligatory oral test in class 10 (autumn 2004 - spring 2005)
  

• a project on how to make intercultural learning work in the ELT classroom. A group of Thuringian teacher trainers are cooperating with two UK trainers in 2004-2005 to develop teaching strategies and tasks that enable teachers to implement into practical classroom procedure the curricular ideas of intercultural learning
  
  
• support for a 2004/2005 project in Saxony in collaboration with the University of East Anglia on Quality in ELT - enhancing the professional development of teacher trainers and subject coordinators, giving new insights into ELT methodology with a focus on cross-curricular teaching and learning, using the new media and working on British studies projects
  

• support for the September 2003 'New Approaches in ELT Materials Design and Development' conference with ALP Dillingen and MATSDA
  

• support for Fachverband Moderne Fremdsprache n conferences

If your institution has suggestions for possible projects, please email elt.germany@britishcouncil.de with a brief description.