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Professional Development

Professional memberships

  • Asso­ciate Mem­ber, Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion of Teach­ing Eng­lish as a For­eign Lan­guage (IATEFL)
    • Busi­ness Eng­lish, Eng­lish for Spe­cif­ic Pur­pos­es and Learn­ing Tech­nolo­gies Spe­cial Inter­est Groups
  • Mem­ber, TESOL Inter­na­tion­al Association
  • Mem­ber, ELTA-Rhine

Training and development activities

I am always look­ing for pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties to update my knowl­edge and improve as a teacher and free­lance busi­ness own­er. Here are some recent activ­i­ties that I have par­tic­i­pat­ed in:

  • Prax­is­beispiele für die Anwen­dung von KI im Spra­chunter­richt (“Prac­ti­cal exam­ples for using AI in lan­guage teach­ing”), Uni­ver­si­ty Mün­ster Fort­bil­dung with Heike Mersmann-Hoffmann
  • Koop­er­a­tiv und kom­mu­nika­tiv: Verbesserung der Sprech­fer­tigkeit­en im Fremd­sprache­nun­ter­richt (“Coop­er­a­tive and com­mu­nica­tive: Improv­ing speak­ing skills in for­eign lan­guage lessons”), Uni­ver­si­ty Mün­ster Fort­bil­dung with Gün­ther Depner
  • IATEFL MaWSIG webi­nar: “Cre­at­ing Mate­ri­als to Enhance EAP Vocab­u­lary”, Coni Barbariol
  • Erfol­gre­ich arbeit­en im inter­na­tionalen Kon­text (“Work­ing suc­cess­ful­ly in an inter­na­tion­al con­text”), Dr. Ursu­la Ber­tels, Uni­ver­si­ty of Mün­ster
  • “AI and Infor­ma­tion Lit­er­a­cy”, Uni­ver­si­ty of Mary­land, Uni­ver­si­ty Libraries and the Teach­ing and Learn­ing Trans­for­ma­tion Cen­ter, online module
  • Meth­o­d­en­vielfalt für Set­tings in der Erwach­se­nen­bil­dung (“Method­ol­o­gy for adult edu­ca­tion set­tings”), Bian­ca Siev­ert, beruf & leben
  • Kom­mu­nika­tion­skom­pe­tenz & Gesprächs­führungsmeth­o­d­en (“Com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills and dia­logue man­age­ment meth­ods”), Eva Reich­mann, beruf & leben
  • Intro­duc­tion to Con­flu­ence (col­lab­o­ra­tion tool), Uni­ver­si­ty of Mün­ster “Train the Train­er Network”
  • ELTA-Rhine webi­nar: “Pic­ture This: Boost­ing class­room com­mu­ni­ca­tion”, Tere­sa Bestwick
  • IATEFL MaWSIG webi­nar: “Writ­ing mate­ri­als that devel­op read­ing skills”, Mark Hef­fer­nan & David Byrne
  • Feed­back und Kor­rek­tur schriftlich­er Texte (“Feed­back and cor­rec­tion of writ­ten texts”), Uni­ver­si­ty Mün­ster Fort­bil­dung with Gün­ther Depner
  • Autonomie im Fremd­sprache­nun­ter­richt (“Auton­o­my in for­eign lan­guage lessons”), Uni­ver­si­ty of Mün­ster Fort­bil­dung
  • Train­ing in Learn­ing Man­age­ment Sys­tems: “Ein­führung in ILIAS (Basis) für DozentIn­nen des SLZ,” TH Köln