Date: (insert current date) Jan. 14, 2004

Contact: (insert your name) Uta Larkey

Phone: (insert your phone # and best times to reach you) 410 337 6222

For immediate release

Uta Larkey to Participate in Leadership Program in German Language Education

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(Insert name) Uta Larkey , a teacher at (insert institution) Goucher College

in (city) Baltimore, MD , has been selected to participate in a leadership program in the field

of German language education. The American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) in cooperation with the

Goethe-Institut established a program, TrainDaF (DaF stands for German as a Foreign Language), which aims to build

future leaders in the field of the teaching of German. This program, now in its fourth year, is generously funded through

the German government.

Participants will strengthen their leadership skills, develop strategies for advocating German at all levels of

instruction, and deepen their understanding of Germany and the European Union. Participants will also learn more about

the activities of the AATG and the broader field of world languages.

Funds from the German government support the following activities: Program participants will attend an

orientation meeting in Washington D.C. from April 22-25, 2004. In summer 2004, they will take part in seminars in

Germany. They will also attend the AATG Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, from November 18-21, 2004.