Texas
is our state of choice, the
Dallas/Fort Worth area
is our residence of choice.
We are bi-lingual
and bi-cultural,
and Education is our profession.
We are proud to find an abundance of tutors, high school teachers, and principals amongst our relatives.
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Gabriele Barwig |
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M. Ed.,
National Louis University, Heidelberg, Germany |
B. S. Liberal Arts,
Sociology & Psychology, Regents College, New York, USA |
Certified Translator
of English/German, Darmstadt, Germany |
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I am holding a Masters's Degree in Education
from
National-Louis University
in Heidelberg, Germany (former name: National Teacher's College),
and a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Arts with majors in
Sociology and Psychology
from Excelsior College, New York
(former name: Regents College).
I am a member in good standing of the
American Association of
Teachers of German.
Since 1999 I am teaching
German language
at Keller
High School in Keller, Texas.
By the Texas State Board for Educator Certification I am
certified to teach
German language, Psychology and Sociology.
I am authorized by the German Government as
a "Certified Translator
of the German
and English Language",
and I hold a
Certificate of Proficiency in English from the
University of Cambridge, Great Britain.
I am a native
German
speaker and in addition to the language knowledge, I bring with me to the classroom
the knowledge of the German culture
that I was born and raised into, and that the German language is embedded in.
It is not easy to convey to my students, that in contrast to American thinking,
there are differing cultural concepts in this world,
and that the European culture and European thinking differs far more
from the American culture
and American thinking than my students had come to learn:
At Keller
High School, I am the sponsor of the
German Club,
where I expose my students to the customs of this foreign country
and this foreign culture.
Once a year, I take my best German
students on a trip to the town of
Fredericksburg, Texas,
which was founded by Germans,
and we visit the town museum, which harbors traces and artefacts of the
German influence and the German attitude towards farming and community living.
In my Summer break I take a small group of my students on an individual
trip to my homeland
Germany
and visit the German Black Forest town of
Loffenau
that I spent my childhood in.
My goal is to provide the students as much of human contact
and exposure to the foreign culture and foreign thinking as possible.
Instead of staying in hotels we are staying in youth hostels, which allow for peer
contact with German nationals the same age as my students.
In our travel through the major German cities of
Frankfurt,
Fritzlar,
Kassel,
Hamburg,
Bremen,
Berlin,
Heidelberg,
and in the exposure to the German cultural heritage as at
Deutsche Maerchenstrasse,
Kassel Wilhelmshoehe,
Castle Hohenzollern,
I hope to convey to my students a sense of
German culture and German thought.
Before teaching High School, I worked as a free-lance Translator
for the languages German and English and I gained experience in Adult Education:
- From 1991-1999 I taught classes in
German language, as well as
Functional Academic Skills in English language and Remedial Mathematics,
at the U.S. Army Education Center in Darmstadt, Germany.
- From 1990-1994 I taught basic and advanced
German language courses
at Big Bend Community College
in Bad Kreuznach, Germany.
- From 1987-1994 I taught classes in
English language at the
German
Volkshochschule in
Darmstadt, Germany.
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In 1998 we decided to move permanently from Germany to the United States, because:
For more than 100 years the German value system
and the rigid German system of social stratification
was aligned with the
psychopath value system
of their leaders, lastly the psychopath Adolf Hitler.
In 1949, after the end of World War II, the dictatorship was renounced and a democracy was
imposed on Germany by the Allied victors - but the underlying psychopath value system
and rigid German class system was never changed.
As of today, the behavior standards in Germany remain aligned to the psychopath value system.
After 1945 the German government tried on a new mask, which this time was called "democracy".
However, the underlying long-established German thesis that the state is master, and not the servant
of the people, was never changed in Germany after 1945 to the democratic thinking, which provides a check on the
exercise of unlimited authority by government personnel,
who at best are agents of the people, but not their rulers.
The undemocratic rigid German class system prevailed,
and the De-Nazification in Germany
after World War II was ineffective and all Nazi personnel as well as
remnants of the the legal system of the Third Reich carried over freely
to the newly established German system.
I am grateful to the United States for inviting us to stay,
for giving us the opportunity to participate as an equal in a real democracy,
and for ultimately granting us the certificate of naturalization.
In my retirement I show my gratitude to this country
by my participation as a substitute teacher in conveying values essential for a democracy
to our next generation of students
and
by the assistance of my fellow citizens as an Enrolled Agent
in the preparation of their income taxes free of charge.
45,000 Enrolled agents in the United States advise, represent and prepare tax returns
for individuals, partnerships, corporations, estates, trusts, and non-profits.
Only enrolled agents demonstrate their competence in matters of taxation
and report their hours of continuing professional education to the IRS.
Enrolled agents are the only taxpayer representatives who receive their
right to practice directly from the U.S. government -
whereas certified public accountants and attorneys are licensed by states
and their licenses are only state specific.
Unlike attorneys and certified public accountants,
who may or may not choose to focus on taxation,
all enrolled agents specialize in taxation.
I first learned about accounting and income taxes in Germany in 1971-1973,
as a part-time accounting apprentice to a Certified Public Accountant.
In 1974 I designed and implemented a computerized
accounting and costing system on a mainframe computer for a German Fortune 500 company
and maintained it until 1989.
In 1995 I developed a networked point-of-sale terminal system on personal computers
for a German startup company
and maintained it until 2001.
From 2007 on I prepared individual income taxes for a Jackson Hewitt franchisee,
reviewed individual income taxes for a Liberty Tax franchisee, and
prepared individual income taxes for a Certified Public Accountant company.
As an Enrolled Agent I use my expertise also to provide high-quality tax assistance
at no cost to low- and moderate-income clients and the elderly.
From 2010 on I volunteer for the IRS programs
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and
Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) as a tax preparer and quality reviewer.
I find great pleasure in participating in the educational process
of the American upper middle class youth.
This pleasure is the result of
interacting with securely attached students
who share similar values, needs, and wants with me,
and of my work ethic being similar to the work ethic of my student's parents.
I know how these students learn best, and
I know what examples, metaphors and values have the most meaning to them.
It is also a pleasure to participate in a cooperative teaching staff
and to enjoy the company of my younger peers as a substitute teacher
at
Argyle Middle School.
From 1973 to 1999 I worked as a computer scientist
at the German
National Research Center for Information Technology
in
Darmstadt, Germany.
My professional emphasis was on portability of software,
on compatibility between computer systems,
and I continue to view and support the "World Wide Web" concept as a set of open,
global, independent, portable specifications that were never intended
to be abused and perverted by certain software and hardware manufacturers.
I am a Certified Computing Professional
(CCP)
with 28 years of experience with computers and software. I hold
ICCP proficiency certificates
for Business Information Systems and for the programming languages
BASIC, COBOL, PASCAL, and C++.
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In the 1970s and 1980s the German National Research Center for Information Technology
cooperated with multiple German state departments of education.
As a member of a team of six computer scientists,
I participated in this cooperation, developing INTEGA, an automated software system
for creating timetables and for administrative tools
for large integrated schools in Germany.
During meetings with school administrators and members of the state education departments all over Germany
I fine tuned the requirements and the implementation and testing
of the INTEGA software on various computer systems.
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