„30 Years of LdL“: Celebration + Book Presentation

Last Saturday we celebrated 30 years of LdL at the Europäisches Haus Pappenheim (EHP). The celebration included the presentation of the new LdL book by Bea Klüsener and me. Here are press releases from Der Skribent and Weißenburger Tagblatt. The LdL website is currently hosted by ASEcoLi.

 

Joachim Grzega

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BGE at Vision Summit 2012

On Friday (May 18) Bea Klüsener and I will present Basic Global English at the Vision Summit 2012.

 

Time: 15:50-16:30h

Venue: University of Potsdam, Campus Griebensee, Room S 17

 

Joachim Grzega

BGE partner school awarded with the „Europe Certificate“

Last Friday my BGE partner school, Alexander-von-Humboldt-Schule in Goldkronach, was bestowed with the „Europaurkunde“ („Europe Certificate“) by Emilia Müller, the Bavarian minister for European Affairs. – for international school projects incl. the use of Basic Global English in Classes 1 and 2 and the use of the internet communication plattform eTwinning. The event was hosted by myself (assisted by Bea Klüsener). Here is the link to a press release (in German).

Joachim Grzega

Vision Summit 2011

I was invited to present LdL at the Vision Summit 2011 – an interesting conference for social entrepreneurship. This year’s summit was dedicated to innovations in the educational sector. During coffee breaks people were very much interested in BGE. We’re on the right entrepreneurial track!

 

Joachim Grzega

Trainings on Academic English and LdL

Recently I gave two trainings:

• a workshop for university teachers at the University of Jena who wanted to get to know interactive methods for teaching an interculturally mixed student group (using English as a means of intercultural communication) — apart from the idea of Global English, we also discussed LdL.
• a lecture on LdL for a general audience (in Munich), many participants were teachers at primary or secondary school.

Both events were very interesting as participants were very rapidly convinced of the fundamental ideas of both of Global English and of LdL. Consequently, we could soon enter a discussion on „problematic/tricky“ cases (lack of student motivation, hyperactivity, shyness, heterogeneity). This forced me to quickly find possible solutions according to LdL in a rapid way. I’m happy that the participants seemed convinced that LdL also works for such tricky cases and that they were satisfied with the entire event. As a matter of fact, the organizors already said they wanted to continue our cooperation.

 

Joachim Grzega

BGE: Sustainability Event at Eichstätt’s dm-market

One and a half weeks of the sustainability exhibition at Eichstätt’s are over. Until Wednesday you still have the chance to visit our BGE information desk as well as the information desk of the two other noteworthy sustainability projects. And you can also vote for one of the projects to be financially further supported by dm.

BGE at Eichstätt’s dm market

The German dm company, together with UNESCO, has called on its customers to hand in projects that promote the idea of sustainability. We handed in a description of Basic Global English and were selected for the second phase of this contest, which consists of presenting the project at the local dm-market.