--- Forwarded Message from [log in to unmask] (Joan K. Campbell) --- Looking for a professional development opportunity to update your German teaching skills and knowledge from home or school via the web? GOLDEN (German On-line Distance Education Network), an interactive on-line teacher development project, sponsored by AATG, the Goethe Institute and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers German teachers an innovative distance learning course on "Reading Pedagogy for the German Language Classroom". GOLDEN's interactive asynchronous learning environment allows participants to work individually, in small groups and with instructors. The course runs from June 13 to July 20, and participants can earn 3 graduate credits from the University of Nebraska/Lincoln. The Reading course will be taught by Ulrike Tallowitz and Adelheid O'Brien, University of British Columbia. It focuses on studentsí development and improvement to read and comprehend foreign texts most effectively, and also familiarizes course participants with recent literature about reading in the foreign language classroom, thus relating theory to practice. The course is divided into six Explorations in which participants will analyze and reflect on their own classroom reading materials as well as a selection of reading texts from currently used textbooks at middle schools, high schools and colleges plus supplementary reading material. Participants will reflect on various instructional approaches to reading and analyze reading comprehension exercises. A selection of current literature will give theoretical insights into the reading comprehension and learning process itself so that teacher/participants can determine the readability of texts, select appropriate reading material for their students and develop adequate reading comprehension tasks so that students become more self reliant when reading foreign texts. The course is limited to 15 participants. Registration begins March 19 and ends June 8. Information is available on-line at: http://golden.unl.edu or by contacting Joan Campbell, GOLDEN Director at: [log in to unmask]