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InterKulturell Features

• Annotated Teacher Edition

  Each teacher edition of InterKulturell shows you how to incorporate proficiency-based instruction into your classroom, providing ample tips and suggestions throughout each unit. Our annotated Teacher Edition provides:

  • Instructional notes with details and tips for implementing activities.
  • Online resources such as organizers, audio, video or Weitere Übungen.
  • ACTFL Standards for the “Five Cs” indicating the mode of Communication or the aspect of Cultures, Comparisons, Connections, and Communities to assist with lesson planning.
  • Culture tips to expand students’ cultural knowledge or provide supplementary information.
  • Can-Do Icons for activities that support and share a Can-Do Statement with Unterwegs formative performance assessments.
  • Answers or possible answers, where appropriate.
  • Language points out linguistic features, etymology, or other facets of language that may be shared with students.
  • Scaffold, Challenge, and Differentiate, the three types of differentiation notes with suggestions for adding support, providing an extra challenge, or meeting students’ learning preferences.

• AP^® and IB Themes

  InterKulturell includes AP® and IB themes from the very beginning. Teacher resources in the end matter of the Teacher Edition outline the themes and subthemes, so learners can prepare for this trajectory.

• Resources

  InterKulturell is filled with unit-aligned resources from across the German-speaking world, like podcasts, videos, infographics, articles, stories, poems, and more.

• Lead Author

  Dr. Cynthia Chalupa is an Associate Professor of German and German Language Program Director at West Virginia University. Dr. Chalupa began her career by coordinating the Collaborative Articulation and Assessment Project in Ohio as part of her duties as the Ohio State Foreign Language Center’s Assistant Director.

  Since becoming a faculty member at WVU, she has taught all levels of language and culture, World Language Teaching Methods, and general education courses. In addition to her work at the university, Dr. Chalupa has served as an AP Reader and co-chair of the AP German Exam Development Committee. She has also co-chaired the National German Exam Committee and served as an item writer for over twelve years.

  Dr. Chalupa was an advisory board member for the ACTFL/ETS Praxis II Exam and the ACTFL-DLI Standards Setting Committee and became certified as an OPI tester in German. She served as the Central representative and Secretary on the AATG Board of Directors (term ending in 2022) and currently serves as a representative on the NECTFL Board of Directors. She is the NECTFL representative to ACTFL and serves on that organization’s Executive Committee.

• Backward Design Approach

  The U.S.-based authors of InterKulturell, all experienced educators and leaders in their field, employed a backward design approach to develop the curriculum. At the unit level, clear objectives are defined, followed by summative assessments that are aligned with those objectives. Formative assessments further support student learning, and each unit section is designed to effectively address the goals of both the formative and summative assessments

• Can-Do Statements and Integrated Performance Assessments

  Assignable Can-Do statements in each unit of InterKulturell show learners a direct connection between tasks and the learning target. Learners can upload completed Can-Do assignments to their student portfolios to showcase their progress, and when it is time to evaluate their learning, students can complete performance-based formative and summative assessments.

• Intercultural Communicative Competencies

  InterKulturell nurtures your learners' interculturality by reflecting on the products, practices, and perspectives of German-speaking communities. This helps students develop the capacity to make connections between elements of the target culture and their own culture. Teen video bloggers from around the German-speaking world provide unscripted insights into the themes of the units with activities built around the videos.

• Assessments

  Each unit consists of a series of activities and steps that provide teachers and learners with ongoing feedback on learners’ progress. These activities include the following:

  • Formative assessments, which build learners’ content knowledge and skills in the language and provide teacher and learner with evidence of progress toward proficiency through a variety of tasks and check-ins.
  • Summative assessments, which are performance-based, enable learners to demonstrate what they know and can do in the language.

• Cross-Curricular Content with a Focus on STEM

  With InterKulturell, learners gain significant cross-curricular content knowledge spanning art, literature, humanities, and STEM. Learners actively participate in STEM-centric activities seamlessly woven into their German language acquisition and cultural exploration experiences.

• World-Readiness Standards' Five C's

  InterKulturell fully aligns with ACTFL's World-Readiness Standards and incorporates Can-Do Statements, performance descriptors, and proficiency guidelines.