Basiswissen Lehrerbildung: Latein unterrichten

What you need to know about good Latin lessons

Teaching Latin as a subject means connecting the past and the present - in terms of language and content. In order for this to succeed, a contemporary didactic approach to the subject is required, based on the latest findings in educational and subject-related sciences. Now it is finally available!

What constitutes forward-looking Latin teaching and how can it be organised in practice? Basiswissen Lehrerbildung: Latein unterrichten explores these questions and develops a Latin subject didactics that consistently incorporates the results of teaching research and ancient studies. In the first part, the team of authors, consisting of subject experts and didactics specialists, systematically develops the basics of Latin teaching. The authors provide a compact overview of what Latin teachers need to know, including the following

• Competences and education in Latin lessons,

• the history of Latin teaching,

• developmental psychology,

• teaching quality,

• Inclusion-sensitive lesson planning.

Their innovative competency model covers all areas of Latin teaching in a new way. In the second and third parts, they explain in detail &bdquo,basic competences&ldquo, and &bdquo,supercompetences&ldquo, and combine them with tips for their implementation in Latin lessons. The focus is on, among other things

• Language competence,

• literary competence,

• cultural competence

• Reception competence and

• translation competence.

At the end, the question of how Latin lessons can meet the challenges facing schools in the 21st century will be discussed.

This volume is indispensable for students, trainee teachers, university lecturers and those involved in teacher training. But interested Latin teachers will also enjoy reading it.