Miriam Gottfried

Miriam was born and grew up in a German-Belgian family in Bonn, the former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany. Quite a lot of her neighbors and classmates grew up in binational and bilingual families as well so that it was her dream to live, study and work abroad at least for some time in future when she was a teenager. After finishing school, she fulfilled her dream and went to Estonia as a volunteer to live and work with mentally handicapped young people but returned to Germany after a year to study History, German and Dutch at the University of Münster where she specialized in teaching teenagers as well. After finishing her studies she was teaching teenagers at a German school for a short time and then returned to the Baltic states, first to Latvia, where she was teaching German as a foreign language for a year. For personal reasons she went to Vilnius one year later where she has been teaching German as a foreign language to grownups and children and Dutch as a foreign language to grownups for twelve years and is looking forward to teaching German to native speakers at an international school now.

Miriam likes projects and cooperation with colleagues who are teaching other subjects. She believes that this is the best way of teaching and learning and that not only the pupils can learn a lot from the teachers but the teachers can learn a lot from the pupils as well.