ICC - International Language Network
The ICC International Certificate Conference e.V. is an international association with local impact representing the field of language learning and teaching.
ICC is a Non-Government Organisation (NGO) with participatory status at the Council of Europe. The ICC, known as The European Language Network is a not-for-profit-association bringing together people actively involved in foreign language teaching and providing them with a forum for exchange. At the moment, 35 educational organisations in 15 countries are members of the ICC. The ICC sets standards for a transnational network of language teachers, promotes quality in foreign language learning and teaching by certifying progress and achievement in language acquisition, certifying teachers’ competence to teach, offering guidelines for the evaluation of teaching institutions, and providing criteria for the evaluation of teaching materials and courses.
Contact
Christel Schneider, Dipl.-Päd.
christel.schneider@icc-languages.eu
Christel Schneider has worked as visiting lecturer at Hamburg University (Dept. of Education) teaching didactics and methodology for more than 10 years.
In addition she has run teacher training seminars both on a national, as well as on an international, basis for a number of years.
At present she works as director for the ICC International Language Network www.icc-languages.eu
Prior to her work with the ICC she has worked as head of the language department for an adult education association in North Germany for 14 years.
Christel Schneider has been the local secretary for the Cambridge ESOL examinations. Further responsibilities included working as a co-ordinator and examiner for ‘The European Language Certificates (TELC)’ 'Cambridge' and ‘Goethe’ examinations.
Her published works include a wide range of materials on course design and teacher training, as well as several course books and various articles. She has also been part of a team of authors which has published English textbooks for adults, including digital training material as well as in the production of digital Language Portfolios.
Her knowledge of online training stretches over a period of more than twelve years. Originally qualified as an Online Trainer with the Institute of Education at the University of London, she later went on to become a certified online trainer with ILM, UK.
Further online experience includes working as an online tutor for the Institute of Education at the University of London and as a guest tutor on an online course (train the 'online' trainer) at the Northern Illinois University as well as trainer for ‘Prime Time’ tutors in a project with Cornelsen which also included the development of online course material for synchronous and a-synchronous online teaching. She has also been involved in the development of teacher training sections in various EU projects for live online training as well as teaching and learning in Second Life.
Christel has been the German representative for Abacus Learning Systems for six years and has developed and implemented various online courses for this institute. Among these are Language Trainer Courses and Language Courses as well as courses on Online Methodology.
Christel Schneider is presently involved in the AVALON Learning project www.avalonlearning.eu
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