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Kathrin Shechtman

GERMAN TEACHER

Kathrin Shechtman is a faculty member at the Franconian International School in Erlangen, Germany. After her first career in Graphic Design, she became a teacher in 2011 when she graduated from West Chester University in West Chester, PA (USA).

She was first introduced to Dr. Stephen Krashen’s work during observations in a German language class in the early stages of her coursework. In her pursuit to find the most effective and efficient method for her classroom, she found Story Listening in the summer of 2016.

Kathrin Shechtman taught German as a Foreign Language at Phoenixville Middle School (USA) from 2011 - 2014. Since 2015 she has been teaching GFL at the Franconian International School in Germany. She started using Story Listening with all of her classes at the international school from grade one to eight in 2016. She found Story Listening to be the best practice in her culturally diverse (no common language with many students) classroom for every age group. She has also successfully used the method with adults.

She is currently on parental leave, pursuing an MA English Studies, volunteering her time to the Stories First Foundation to promote language teaching consistent with the Second Language Acquisition Theory and translating beginner books into German.

Presentations

2022

  • Dynamic Language Learning Conference 2022, Ermelo (Netherlands)
    Story Listening introduction
  • FUNN (Fremdsprachenunterricht natürlich und nachhaltig), Frankfurt (Germany)
    Story Listening introduction

2020

  • Webinar Story Listening, Stories First YouTube
    (1) Teaching remotely with SL;
    (2) Output in an input only classroom
  • The Agen Workshop, France
            German beginner Story Listening class
            Discussion: Debriefing after a week of SL

2019

  • The Agen Workshop, France
    Plenary Session: Story Listening & Reading
    Presentation: Basics of Story Listening
  • Dynamic Language Learning, Netherlands
    1-day workshop: Story Listening

2018

  • ETPRS, Netherlands
    3 hour workshop: Story Listening (2 sessions)
  • Stories First, West Chester (PA), USA
    Co-organizer 2-day Story Listening & Reading WS
    Presenters: Dr. Beniko Mason, Dr. Stephen Krashen
  • Story Listening Erlangen, Germany
    Organizer 2-day Story Listening & Reading workshop
    Presenters: Dr. Beniko Mason, Dr. Stephen Krashen

2017

  • Story Listening Erlangen, Germany
    Organizer 1-day Story Listening workshop
    Presenters: Dr. Beniko Mason

2016

  • ETPRS, Netherlands
    3-day German class demonstration, teaching German through comprehensible input

2015

  • Franconian Int. School, Germany
    Presentation: Teaching with Comprehensible Input
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  • Home
    • About Frau Shechtman
    • FAQ
  • Why German?
    • Projects
    • Musik!
    • Sing & Tanz!
    • This is real!
  • Story listening
    • Experimente & Co
    • TEST
  • Reading
    • Story Reading
  • Sabine & Michael
    • Sabine und Michael 1
    • Sabine und Michael 2
    • Sabine und Michael 3
    • Sabine und Michael 4
  • Culture
    • Gebrüder Grimm
    • Sophie Scholl
    • Reunification Germany
  • Teachers
    • Great Websites
    • Downloads