TANDEM Hamburg Blog

Das ist sicher als Warnung vor Veränderung gemeint, inbesondere dann, wenn man etwas schon lange erfolgreich betreibt.

Nun, wir haben das einfach nicht ernst genommen, denn Sprüche wie dieser sind allzu häufig doch nichts Anderes als Pipifax, oder wie wir in Hamburg sagen, Tüünkram. Und unser Baum hat an seinem neuen Standort sofort Wurzeln geschlagen!

Ja, wir haben tatsächlich eine große Veränderung vorgenommen – die Hauptnachricht von uns ist daher die, dass wir in tolle neue Räume in Hamburg’s City gezogen sind; direkt an den Hafen, zum ‘Eingang’ des jüngsten Hamburger Stadtteils ‘Hafencity’.

Wir heißen euch / Sie alle herzlich willkommen in unserer neuen, großzügigen und modernen Schule; in diese super neue Umgebung (also, wie viel ‘näher dran’ als ‘mitten drin’ kann man sein?) haben wir aber neben all unseren Büchern, Computern, Tischen und Stühlen auch die positive, warme Atmosphäre der Schule mitnehmen können – TANDEM ist trotz aller Veränderung sofort wieder zu erkennen!

Wir bedanken uns auf diesem Wege bei allen Teilnehmer/innen, Lehrer/innen, Geschäftspartner/innen, Kund/innen, Projektpartner/innen, Freund/innen, Mentor/innen, einfach bei euch / Ihnen allen für Freundschaft und Kooperation und freuen uns darauf, die Zusammenarbeit fortzusetzen.

Mögen wir alle wieder diese ruhigen Tage nutzen um zu entspannen und unsere Batterien aufzuladen, bevor wir wieder an die Arbeit gehen.

Bleibt / bleiben Sie gesund und zufrieden in 2011!

Beste Wünsche

Henning Prüß und das Team von TANDEM Hamburg.

This is obviously meant as a warning against changing things you have been doing successfully for some time.

Well, we didn’t listen, since some of the these sayings are a load of codswallop anyway, if you excuse the language. And our new horse is an asset!

Yes, we did make an important change – the big news of 2010 was and is our move to fantastic new premises in the city centre, right on the harbour at the doorway to the new HafenCity (The Harbour City, Hamburg’s youngest district).

We welcome all of you to our new, spacious and modern school; apart from the great new surroundings (I mean, how much closer can you get to ‘where it’s at’?), the other good news is that we have managed to carry not only all our books, computers, tables and chairs, but also the positive and warm spirit of the school with us – you’ll recognize TANDEM even though it’s changed a lot!

We would like to say thank you very much to all you students, trainers, business contacts, clients, project partners, friends and mentors, in fact all of you for your friendship and co-operation and are looking forward to keeping up the collaboration.

May we all use this holiday period again to relax and recharge our batteries before getting back to work in a few days. Keep healthy and happy in 2011!

Best regards

Henning Pruess and the Team at TANDEM Hamburg.

Are you a German language teacher in a European country?
Are you ready for new ideas for language training? Are you keen on meeting colleagues from other European countries to exchange and discuss best practice ideas?
We are running 5 days of further education for German language instructors at international schools and language schools abroad, and for independent trainers. In our teacher-trainer course for German language teachers from a foreign country you will spend 5 intensive days with methods and materials.
If you are a German language teacher at a private or state school in your home country, this further education course is designed to help you develop new ideas for your classroom work, to discuss concepts in an exchange with colleagues from a variety of countries, and, above all: to put them into practice.
We will be concerned with the following areas: Speaking, writing, reading and listening skills, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and ‘learning how to learn’. The methods we are using are from foreign language teaching, educational play theory and experiential pedagogy. We will present and try out teaching methods for classroom work and for outdoors. The course will be held in German, so that speaking and listening training takes place on the go; the emphasis lies however on the methodological content.
You will have private accommodation; arrival will be Sunday, departure Saturday after the course.
This course has been approved for a Grundtvig Mobility grant – so you can reclaim your costs! Please check out the descriptions and prerequisites at the Grundtvig mobility website, where this course is listed; reference no.: DE-2011-1128-003
Course dates for 2011:
16.05.11 – 20.05.11
01.08.11 – 05.08.11
10.10.11 – 14.10.11

All further information will be available on request.