The very well-attended eighth meeting of the BIKA - Bilingual Kassel AG, which took place on 25.01.2017, was more exciting and productive than ever.  First of all, Tatjana Schrör, a student at the University of Kassel, and Christine Glück, a trainee teacher at the Albert Schweitzer School in Kassel, received their BIKA certificates for successfully completing the bilingual modules. The unique selling point of the BIKA certificate was underlined                

This was followed by an interesting presentation by Dr. Michael Maset, a teacher at the Albert Schweitzer School in Kassel, who discussed with the participants the question of what a subject-specific teaching model for bilingual history lessons could look like.  

Prof. Dr. Christine Pflüger and Prof. Dr. Claudia Finkbeiner began the second part of the session with the presentation of the initial results of the PRONET project P9 "Multilingualism potentials in bilingual subject teaching", which is being carried out together with Prof. Dr. Bernd Tesch. Mr. Timo Gerke, teacher at Georg-Christoph-Lichtenberg-Schule Kassel, and Mr. Lars Förster, teacher at Modellschule Obersberg Bad Hersfeld, received a certificate of participation for their involvement in the above-mentioned project. At the end of the winter semester 2016/17, Mr. Gerke and Mr. Förster and their students from their bilingual history courses supported the project by agreeing to participate in the background survey conducted by Ms. Anna Petzoldt and to make audio recordings. The handover was made by Prof. Dr. Claudia Finkbeiner and Prof. Dr. Christine Pflüger.

In the final part of the session, a stimulating debate took place on various challenges of bilingual teaching and learning.    
Text: Anna Petzoldt