Dillingen Germany 2002
Akademie fuer Lehrerfortbildung und Personalfuehrung
| I was fortunate enough to
spend a couple months teaching, helping with course
development and presenting at a conference at the Akademie
fuer Lehrerfortbildung und Personalfuehrung (ALP )n
Dillingen Germany. The Academy is a 16th century cathedral and monastery that evolved into a university and today is run by the State of Bavaria exclusively for teacher in-service training. Course range from elementary school subjects to University level music, science, etc. The buildings enclose a beautiful courtyard completely buffered from the outside community and in many ways the 21st century. The original monks quarters have been converted to housing for attendees. Meals, lodging and tuition is free to teachers from Bavaria. All others pay $55.00 / week for lodging and three fantastic meals each day. The whole facility is one big museum known only to the people that work there. |
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My Favorite Library
The school has a 15th century library filled with original manuscripts and Gutenberg documents. The room has been closed for years because of concerns about the safety of the floors. They actually let me walk around in there and look through the books.
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Other Rooms
These are the halls. Easy to think education is important when you enter classrooms through doors like these. Mural is one of many stairwell ceilings. Some of the old classrooms still have the old pulpits that professors lectured from.
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Old and Modern Together
Inside the rooms are very modern and include the latest technologies. The glass front area is the dining hall. The glass cylinder below is the elevator. The two pictures on the right are from the Golden Room, a large ballroom with the entire ceiling covered in murals. You can tell that Dillingen was in the Catholic portion of medieval Germany, because the obligatory sinners being tortured in hell had Martin Luther featured prominently.
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