NCLE says thank you and congratulations to Andrea Pfeil for her work as Deputy Director of the Goethe-Institut UK and NCLE Consortium Partner.
NCLE wishes to send many congratulations and warmest thanks to Andrea Pfeil, Head of the Language Department and Deputy Director at the Goethe-Institut, who is moving on from her post in London this week to take up her new role in South Africa.
The Goethe-Institut is one of three NCLE Consortium partners and Andrea has played an essential role within the project from its inception.
It remains crucial to place German at the heart of the NCLE’s mission as a language that is in high demand among UK employers, but which is underrepresented in England’s schools.
Andrea Pfeil, Deputy Director of the Goethe-Institut UK, with Bernardette Holmes MBE, Director of the NCLE. Photo: © Pau Ros
Andrea’s leadership as a Consortium partner within NCLE has resulted in impactful initiatives including schools-led National Priority Projects; a comprehensive CPD strand within the NCLE’s online CPD platform, Language Educators Online; and direct work in schools, deploying GEMs (German Expert Mentors) and boosting the visibility of German in classrooms around the country.
The full GIMAGINE programme provides schools, teachers and pupils with a 360 degree offer of support for German, including funded opportunities, a rich offer which is unprecedented in the recent history of the English education system including the GIMAGINE Award which is now part of the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme.
There are perhaps two initiatives which really showcase Andrea’s passion, vision, and creativity and they are the development of primary resources around the extraterrestrial character Wuschel created by internationally celebrated children’s illustrator, Alex Scheffler, and the Exchange2Change programme, an outstanding youth mobility programme connecting young people from UK and Germany.
Next year, the Goethe-Institut as part of NCLE will be delivering the National German A-Level Class – an innovative model of delivery both in person and online, sharing pooled teaching resources with central expert support, which enables schools with small cohorts to keep offering German A Level to their students which would otherwise be impossible.
NCLE looks forward to building on Andrea’s legacy with the Goethe-Institut in the next phase of its work.
- – Explore the GIMAGINE programme here.
- – Join your nearest NCLE Language Network here.
- – Explore NCLE National Priority Projects, including projects delivered for German, here.
- – Create your free LEO account to access CPD and resources, including the Goethe-Institut’s Introductory Pathway, here.