Get them
out of their
seats!
©J.H.Shier 1999
Janet Hegman Shier
I
teach intensive German and German Theater at the U-M
Residential College. I also am a teacher trainer for the
Goethe-Institut Netzwerk. My teaching motto is: "Take
something new into the classroom every day and get students
out of their seats." (This greatly improves students'
likelihood
of learning!) As a long-time advocate of multiple
intelligences, I always integrate the arts into my teaching.
Students in my German language and German Theater classes
make visits to art galleries, listen to German music, and do
performance activities, creative writing assignments and
arts projects related to reading assignments as part of
their required coursework. In addition to teaching German in
Fall 2000, I team-taught a performance course on
women's
health awareness
(in English), funded by an Interdisciplinary Faculty
Associates Award I received with colleague Jennifer Myers
(Psychology & RC Social Sciences).
Send me a message if you would like to know more about the RC German Program or the RC German Program's own theater company, RC "Deutsches Theater" , or if you would like to have me give a workshop or presentation at your school or conference.
RC German Program Head
112 Greene/East Quadrangle
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Tel.734-647-4378