Irene Motyl is a Senior Associate in German at Barnard College/Columbia University. She has experience in post-secondary as well as primary and secondary school education, adult learning, and teacher training. Her responsibilities include curriculum and program development; teacher training and mentorship; She has developed content-based courses such as "News and Views from German TV", "Fokus ﾖsterreich" and "Sehen-Verstehen-Sprechen, Understanding the Language through Seeing the Culture", in which conversation, dialogue, and discussion are based on visual images drawn from authentic German video and television, film screenings, and current art shows in New York City (offered by the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Goethe Institute and other cultural Institutions).

She is President of the AATG (American Association of Teachers of German) New York Metropolitan Chapter and serves as consultant for the AATG Professional Development Program and as teacher trainer for the Goethe Institute Teacher Training Network.

She has served on the Deutsche Welle/AATG/Goethe Institute Task Force on classroom use of television and the AATG/Goethe Institute Project "Going the Distance (Long Distance Teacher Training)." She has also directed Intercultural Teaching Practicums for graduate students from the US and the Universities of Berlin, Bielefeld, and Munich. She has conducted numerous In-Service Teacher-Training and Faculty Development seminars inNew York City, Boston, Atlanta, Montreal, and other cities, and lectured at conferences and workshops in North America and Europe.

Author of "Television in the Classroom", Die Unterrichtspraxis (Journal of the American Association of Teachers of German, spring 1998) and coauthor of Deutsche Welle -- Aktuelle Fernsehsendungen im kommunikativen Deutschunterricht (Teachers' Handbook on Using German Television in the Classroom, (Goethe Institute, 1995), she has written and developed classroom materials and teaching strategies for the Goethe Institute TV broadcast, "Die Deutschstunde". Currently she is working on a Project entitled Learning Scenarios for the Intermediate German Classroom.

She holds an M.A. in German Language and Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1997), and a Certificate from the Vienna Teachers College. Her current research interests include Instructional Technology, Cross-cultural Issues, and Visual Art and Language Teaching.