Amman- 30 March 2023
An important pillar of the quality assurance measures at the GJU's German Language Center (GLC) are regular training events for and by the GLC. Mobility programs, four-week stays in Germany for training and teaching purposes ("Train the Trainer"), in-class peer training by German universities and institutes as part of the "Flying Faculty Program", and training measures within the network make up the training portfolio.
The second semester of the academic year 2022/2023 started on February 23 with an training by the publisher "Hueber" for 65 German-as-a-Foreign Language (DaF) lecturers of GJU on the topic of "Interactive and autonomous learning" with the textbook Momente, which is currently successively replacing its predecessor textbook Menschen at the GLC.
The training was followed on March 7 by a full-day training session as part of the GJU's DaF conference, with a selection of 10 workshops on the latest research publications in the field of German-as-a-foreign-language. Sabine Kasten from the Language Center at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences participated in the GJU's Flying Faculty Program from March 4-11, teaching and shadowing German classes as part of the "In-class Peer Training” at the GLC.
In preparation for the introduction of the new curricular exam "GJUDaF" to obtain a standardized B1 certificate, 25 German lecturers were trained by the TestDaF Institute on March 15 and 16, this time on the evaluation criteria of the new exam, which was developed by the TestDaF Institute in Germany and will be administered for the first time at the GJU this semester. From March 11-19, Samir Haskic of the GLC conducted a week-long training for students in SAHL's MA DaF study program on lesson planning. This dovetailing of SAHL and GLC serves to further prepare potential candidates of the study program for a teaching position at GLC. On March 19, a group of 10 students from the English/German double major at the University of Jordan got a glimpse of teaching German-as-a-foreign-language at GJU's German Language Center by sitting in on German classes.
The DaF training program for the GLC to kick off the 2nd semester 2022/2023 ended on March 20 with a workshop by Cornelsen Verlag on the topic: “Networked skills training in DaF teaching: multi-channel communication”, attended by 26 DaF lecturers from GJU.
