Amman- 17 May 2014
In the frame of the German weeks 2014, the German Jordanian University in cooperation with Goethe Institute- Amman celebrated the 5th Jordanian German Teacher´s Day.
Teachers’ day is the very special day in the life of students to appreciate and honor their teachers for getting good education. Teachers give their special contributions in the some scrupulous field area of the students and nurture their precious life through the true knowledge.
The event which lasted for three days, started by short welcoming speeches by Dr. Ines Geßner , Deputy Head of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the the GJU Vice President for International Affairs prof. Anton Mangstl , where both emphasized that the celebration of this day is of great importance as it memorizes the teachers about their crucial roles in building the future of students, rights and responsibilities, which is the real need to raise the status of the education profession to develop the society as a whole.
The event, which took a central and social platform of professional exchange of knowledge for the German teachers from Jordan, included many presentations by some professors from Germany, musical performance as well as various workshops about teaching process in German classes, led by different German teachers and specialists. The workshops were very successful and the participants were high motivated.
It is worth mentioning that the event mainly focused on academic trainings during the three days. The training sessions were held for the lecturers at the German Language Center and the students from the School of Languages at GJU, by some professors from Germany, including Dr. Thomas Vogel from Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/O., Prof. Karin Kleppin from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Prof. Dr. Jörg Roche from the LMU München, Dr. Annegret Middeke from University Göttingen as well as Dr. Birgit Braun from publisher Klett-Verlag.