Curriculum Vitae

• born 1972 in Cologne
• School in Neuss and Syracuse (N.Y., USA)
  
• University studies in English, History and Educational Theory  at the Universities of Düsseldorf, Wuppertal (Germany) and Nantes (France)
  
• more than 6 years of working as student assistant and academic employee at the University of Düsseldorf. 
  

• Master degree in English and History with a supplementary degree in Educational Theory (Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf) / First and Second State Examination for teachers in Secondary Education (grades 5-12/13)

• Post-graduate studies and supplementary examination on content-based language instruction (Universität-Gesamthochschule Wuppertal)

• PhD at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, topic of the PhD thesis: Bilingual German-Englisch history lessons in North-Rhein Westphalia. Theoretical basics, practical experiences and perspectives for future work
  
• First and Second State Examination for teachers in Secondary Education (grades 5-12/13)
• more than 10 years of experience teaching English/German as a second language (DaF)- and bilingual history lessons at schools in Chertsey (Surrey, Great Britain), Düsseldorf, Meerbusch and Grevenbroich (Germany)
• Teaching experience in adult education in companies, banks and teacher training

Scholarships and extensive stays abroad

• Syracuse, N.Y. USA 1989/1990
  

• Nantes, Frankreich (University scholarship of the  Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf)
  
• Chertsey, Surrey, Großbritannien, scholarschip of the Pädagogische Austauschdienst (PAAD)
  
• post-graduate scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert-foundation for the PhD
  
• Cape Town, South Africa
  
• Charlotte, N.C. USA
  

 Main areas of work and personal interests

•  many years of teaching experience in all grades
  

• Developing traditional and digital teaching materials for educational films for history lessons in English and German and for the Ministry of Education in North-Rhine Westphalia
  
• planning and organizing teacher trainings with a focus on student activating methods and motivating lessons
• personal interest in: motivating teaching methods, individual support, cooperative learning, independent work and approaches of learning autonomously, project work, learning in consideration of personality structure and emotions and differentiation of heterogeneous groups
• encouraging cooperation between school and economy (building a learning partnership between company and school, production of a student-radio show in cooperation with the Medienzentrum Rheinland and the radio channel Antenne Düsseldorf)
• German and English lessons for adults in companies and banks, etc. with addressee-related topics

 Publications  (extract)

•  Müller-Schneck, Elke 2000, "Chancen und Probleme eines bilingual deutsch-englischen Geschichtsunterrichts an Gymnasien in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Stimmen aus der Praxis" [Chances and problems of bilingual history lessons at grammar schools in North-Rhine Westphalia], in: Geschichte, Politik und ihre Didaktik 28,1/2, 41-46.

• --- 2002, Bilingualer Geschichtsunterricht in der gegenwärtigen Diskussion: Kriterien für die Auswahl und Analyse von Materialien" [Bilingual history lessons in current discussion: Criteria for the selection and analysis of teaching material], in: Neusprachliche Mitteilungen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, 55,2, 104-111.
  
• ---/ Hartmann-Scheer, Ingrid 2003, "'I can't kill my baby' and Gattaca", in: Glaap, Albert-Reiner/Harmann-Scheer, Ingrid (Hgg.), Paving the Way. Teacher's Manual, Frankfurt/Main: Diesterweg, 33-41.
• --- / Heinze, Michael (Hgg.) 2004, Canadian, Literary and Didactic Mosaic. Essays in Honour of Albert-Reiner Glaap on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag.
• --- 2006, Bilingualer Geschichtsunterricht. Theorie, Praxis, Perspektiven, Frankfurt/Main u.a.: Peter Lang (Mehrsprachigkeit in Schule und Unterricht, 3)
• --- since 2012: Designing German and English teaching materials for the series Geschichte interaktiv, 17ff. of the Anne Roerkohl dokumentARfilm GmbH in traditional and interactive form. They produce educational films for bilingual history lessons on various topics comprising Pre-History to Contemporary History (films History Interactive, 17ff.).