The mission of the AATG is based on the belief that bringing the language, literatures and cultures of the German-speaking world to all Americans is a vital humanistic endeavor which serves essential national interests. It's the only national individual membership organization dedicated to the advancement and improvement of the language, literature, and culture of the German-speaking countries.
With 5,000 members, the AATG is for teachers of German at all levels of instruction and all those interested in the teaching of German.
The German Embassy has recently announced a funding possibility for individual teachers for school-related projects that will be dedicated to supporting the study of German at the school level. AATG has been designated as one of the members of the "Netzwerk Sprachvergnügen" to receive your application. An Executive Council committee will review your proposal and, if approved, send it on to the Embassy for the next stage of review and approval. Deadline for submitting your application is August 17, 2011.
The DEFA Film Library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the only archive and study center outside Europe devoted to the study of a broad spectrum of filmmaking by East German filmmakers or related to East Germany from 1946 to the present.
Full-time U.S. teachers are eligible to apply for a year-long or semester-long direct exchange of teaching positions with a counterpart in Switzerland teaching the same subject(s) at the same level.
Twenty-two years ago, a small group of determined advocates for German in the elementary schools developed a plan to support the advocacy of German in grades K-8. With generous funding by the Ständige Arbeitsgruppe Deutsch als Fremdsprache (StADaF) from the German government, and the Goethe-Institut, the Kinder lernen Deutsch (KLD) Steering Committee has made great progress in many directions. The major, long-range components of the initiative include: