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Lessons about stereotypes to constitutions

I have been tasked to teach a session on stereotypes to a high school German class. Oh boy, stereotypes can go all different ways and I...

Americans love Umlauts, they just look super cool. Those two dots on top of the letters a, o and u are simply divine. The sideways colon...

I have always politely refused the confusing custom of picking a new name in a foreign language class because the cultural value of doing...

Digital literacy is a hot topic because we are all using our electronic devices, like cellphones, tablets, or computers to read things...

I think we have all questioned our teacher why we would ever need to know math, German, English, science or whatever subject that we did...

How do you get high school students to care about a topic? High school students aged 14-18 in the peak of adolescence. Psychologists...

I love to use food to share my German culture with students. Everyone in the US knows that Germans have two cakes, the black forest cake...

I have had to write my fair share of history research papers. I love getting my hands on primary sources. Universities and government...

Pronunciation can be the difference between a cute little bunny and a soldier. How is that possible, well when the diminutive of the...

I always ask my students to refrain from using google translate and to do their own translation work. Not only is it cheating to let a...