CNY AATG Fall Workshop: "Yes, and..." Improv in the Foreign Language Classroom

CNY AATG & CNY AATF
Fall Workshop:
"Yes, and..." Using Improv in the Foreign Language Classroom
October 28, 2017
Fayetteville-Manlius High School, Manlius, NY

Presenter Lauren Esposito (r) and Phil Gross (l)

CNY AATG joined up with the CNY AATF to work together to provide a fantastically useful and delightfully fun workshop on incorporating improv into foreign language teaching.  The CNY AATF managed registrations and organized the food for the event.  About 30 participants spent 4 hours at Fayetteville-Manlius High School playing and laughing, while acquiring techniques for active and lively use of the target language.

Here's the Link to the Syracuse Improv Collective, for more information and dates/times of drop in workshops.

We were divided into two groups to warm up, experiment with improv techniques, and play with language.

One of the final Living Tableaus depicting an interpretation of a short piece of literature, featuring CNY AATG members Gülden Olden, Jan Hohenstein and Ann Pfeifer.

The "Best in Show" Tableau (French Teachers!)

In other news, we celebrated our colleagues' successes:

Richard Ernst, German and French Teacher at Eagle Hill Middle School won the New York State Association of Foreign Language Teachers' Ruth E. Wasley Teacher of the Year Award at the NYSAFLT Annual Meeting in Buffalo, NY on October 20, 2017.

Wir gratulieren Dir, Richard!

Our esteemed colleagues 

Karina Von Tippelskirch (Syracuse University) 

and 

Harald Zils (Binghamton University)

 were both granted tenure in the last year, an accomplishment we all are thrilled about, 

both for them and for the consequent additional stability to German teaching in the CNY area.

Thus multiple cakes were in order:

Tenure macht hungrig.

Our Schatzmeisterin/Testing Chair, Shadia Khalifa, announced too that she is moving to South Carolina in May of 2018, so will need to resign from her positions.

We are grateful to Mona Eikel-Pohen for accepting the role of Testing Chair immediately.

The position of Treasurer is yet unfilled and all current members are requested to consider the (not very demanding) job and let an officer know.

We ended our meeting with the mission to all members to...
 BRING ANOTHER GERMAN TEACHER TO OUR NEXT MEETING, MEMBER OF AATG OR NOT!

Please mark your calendars, our next meeting is 

April 7, 2018 at 9:30 am

Our topic of focus: Presentation Skills in Foreign Languages MEP

Here is the link to Lauren Esposito's presentation 

which she has graciously shared with us:

This is the handout she provided.