Professional Training
One of the main aspirations of the Innsbruck Model of Foreign Language Education is to reach out to a diverse group of foreign language teachers and to close the gap between academic training and practical work in the classroom. We provides experienced foreign language teachers with the opportunity to learn about the latest research in the field of foreign language education and use it in their practical work. This improves the collaboration between student teachers in training and their supervising teachers - another important objective for IMoF. IMoF aims to break down barriers and overcome potential anti-climax perspectives between foreign language teachers by offering cross-linguistic training seminars.
Training Seminars by the IMoF-core Team
- since 2008: continuous training seminars for AHS (academic secondary schools) and BHS (vocational secondary schools) teachers in all of Austria’s Federal States, South Tyrol and Trentino
Participants in Working Groups
- Since 2014 Barbara Hinger represents foreign language education in the Bundesreifeprüfungskommission of the Federal Ministry of Education and Science
- Since 2011 Wolfgang Stadler, Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. and Barbara Hinger, Univ.-Prof.in Mag. Dr.in represent the University of Innsbruck at the Austrian Language Committee ÖSKO of the Federal Ministry of Education and the Federal Ministry of Science, Research, and Economy
- Think Tank Implementing CEFR in the Austrian education system, Federal Ministry of Education, Art and Culture ÖSK-Austrian Language Competence Centre, Graz 2007
- Think Tank Foreign Languages / Educational Standards ÖSZ-Austrian Language Competence Centre, Graz 2006
- "Reform des Oberstufenlehrplans an AHS für Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch und Spanisch” [“Revision of the Study Programme for AHS Upper Secondary Stage for English, French, Italian and Spanish”] Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Vienna 2002-2004