Tanya Siebert, Education Consultant and German teacher, has been an educator for 15 years in both the primary and secondary sector and in adult education.
She has a passion for teaching and learning and has worked with Association of Independent Schools of South Australia (AISSA) on the Australian Curriculum: Achievement Standards Moderation Project and creating and annotating Work Samples with the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA).
In her teaching she uses an inquiry process, including PBL (Project Based Learning) and CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) in the STEM subjects. As a Professional Learning Facilitator for the Goethe-Institut, she has experience with the many learning opportunities on offer and has presented at many national and international conferences on the Goethe-Institut Materials, The Australian Curriculum as well as Teaching English as a second language/ dialect.
Key Professional Competencies:
- Workshop facilitation
- Conference presentation
- Education grant application
- Teacher training
- Education resource development and creation
- Unit and Assessment Plan development and creation
- Written and Oral examination invigilation
- Authentic assessment task creation
- Teaching and assessment practice evaluation
Education Consultancy Projects
2006-2020 – SACE Board of South Australia
Year 12 Oral Examination Invigilator
2015-2020 – South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) Board
Year 12 Written Examination Marker
Jan-Feb 2019 – Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
Reviewing annotations of work samples for the ACARA Website.
Nov-Dec 2018 – ACARA
Creating work samples for the ACARA Website.
2017 – Association of Independent Schools of South Australia (AISSA)
Creating quality and authentic assessment tasks based on the Australian Curriculum: Achievement Standards, providing effective feedback to focus on improvement. Teaching and assessment practices were made transparent and gaps or omissions in the teaching programs were identified.
Aug 2018 – Goethe-Institut
Creation of assessment rubrics, linking with the Australian Curriculum, to be used with the Lego Mindstorms and Coding with Blue-Bots teaching resources.
Jul-Sep 2020 – Goethe-Institut
Kinder Universität Unit and Assessment Plan development and creation
Conference Presentations
Guest presenter at numerous conferences throughout the year. Recent presentations include:
2006-2020 – South Australian German Teachers’ Association (SAGTA)
Guest presenter at the annual South Australian German teachers’ Association Conference in addition to interstate conferences.
Aug 2020 – Goethe-Institut
Presenting Kinder Universität project and developed materials at the Modern Language Teachers’ Association of Victoria (MLTAV) Online Conference on 03.08.20, Project Session on 03.08.20, Professional Learning Session on 07.08.20 and 14.08.20.
Oct 2020 – Goethe-Institut
Presenting Kinder Universität project and developed materials at 2020 German Teacher Virtual Conference (GETVICO).
About Tanya (Deutsch)
Tanya Siebert, Deutschlehrerin und Multiplikatorin für das Goethe-Institut, hat eine Master of Education Qualifikation als Grundschul- und Gymnasiallehrerin in den Fächern Englisch, Deutsch und Mathematik. Sie arbeitet seit 15 Jahren und ist besonders interessiert wie man als Lehrerin die Neugier und Offenheit von Kindern und Jugendlichen in verschiedenen Altersstufen begegnen kann. Sie beherrscht vertiefte pädagogische Fachkenntnisse und benutzt verschiedene moderne Unterrichtskonzepten wie Inquiry, CLIL und visuelles Denken. Als Multiplikatorin für das Goethe-Institut hat sie viel Erfahrung mit den Goethe-Angeboten und hat mehrmals an staatliche sowie internationale Tagungen präsentiert.