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:

Gabriele Barwig, M. Ed.

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, (former name: Regents College), New York. 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 is more different 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 Sanssoucci in Potsdam, and 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.

• German Language
• German Club
• Yearly Trip to Germany
• Rubric Calculator

• Master of Education
• Bachelor of Science
• Certified Translator
• Member of: AATG
• Gabriele's Professional Page

Wolfgang Barwig, B. Sc., EA, CCP

I am a retired 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++.

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.

• Other Programming Languages: FORTRAN IV, TELEFUNKEN 440 ASSEMBLER, ALGOL, PL/1, IBM/370 ASSEMBLER, IBM DOS/VS JCL, BCPL, C, PL/M, INTEL 8088 ASSEMBLER, MS-BASIC, CDL/ECDL, IBM OS/MVS JCL, MODULA-II, VISUAL BASIC, HTML, PERL.
• Operating Systems: TELEFUNKEN TR440 BS2, IBM DOS/VS, IBM OS/MFT, IBM OS/MVT, TSO/SPF, IBM VM/SP, SIEMENS BS2000, IBM S/1 RPS, IBM MVS, COMMODORE 8000, MS-DOS, IBM OS/2, NOVELL NETWARE, UNIX, APACHE, MS-IIS.
• From 1995-1999, as the acting webmaster in the Institute for Telecommunications of the German National Research Center for Information Technology and I was pursuing the project "Schulen ans Netz", translated: "plugging schools into the internet". My emphasis was in cooperating with area schools, in "educating the educators" and educating the high school seniors about the internet, and in motivating and supporting the efforts to create an early web presence for these schools.
• From 1974-1994 I was member of a team of computer scientists developing software for the automated creation of timetables for large schools in Germany. I was responsible for creating and maintaining contacts with teachers, administrators and principals of the cooperating schools. The resulting German timetable software INTEGA was widely used all over Germany between 1976 and 1999.

Since 2005 I am holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Arts with majors in Psychology and Sociology from Excelsior College, Albany, New York. In order to be successfully integrated into my new, second culture, as an adult immigrant I had to learn a second set of standards of Nonverbal Communication, Politeness, Morality and Social Skills that apply in the United States. Academically I am interested in, and continue studying the following disciplines:

• Social Psychology
• Education: Educational Sociology, Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Special Education, Instructional Communication, Child Abuse in Education, Social Skills Education, Moral Education
• Communication: Interpersonal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, and its deficiencies in: Autism Spectrum Disorders and Schizophrenic Spectrum Disorders
• Sociology
• Gender Studies
• German and American Culture

In applying the research results of Educational Sociology, since 2010 I find great pleasure in participating in the educational process of the American upper middle class youth. I like to model good social skills and elaborate on social skills and enjoy the company of my younger fellow citizens as a substitute teacher at:

• Carroll Middle School in Southlake, Texas, and
• Carroll High School in Southlake, Texas.

Since 2009 I am admitted to practice before the Internal Revenue Service as an Enrolled Agent (EA), recognized as a professional engaged in the preparation of Individual Income Taxes. As an Enrolled Agent (EA), I am authorized by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Professional Responsibility, to represent taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service in all 50 states. I am bound by the IRS Code of Ethics in Circular 230 (USC Title 31 Section 10: Practice Before The Internal Revenue Service), and by the continuing education standards of the Office of Professional Responsibility. I am a member in good standing of the National Association of Enrolled Agents (NAEA).

Since 2010 I volunteer for the IRS programs Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE). In Spring 2012 I prepared income taxes every Thursday afternoon at the Southlake Public Library in Southlake, Texas.

• Bachelor of Science
• Certified Computing Professional
• Wolfgang's Professional Page

• Social Skills
• Kohlberg's stages of Moral Development
• Asperger Syndrome
• Instructional Communication

• IRS Certificate of Enrollment
• IRS Enrolled Agent (EA), Tax Preparation
• Tax Links
• Member of: NAEA (National Association of Enrolled Agents) and ICCP (Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals)

• Link & Learn Taxes from the IRS
• Tax Software Practice Lab from the IRS (TaxWise from CCH)
• Training Tax Software from the IRS (TaxWise from CCH)
• VITA/TCE Certification Tests
• TaxWise Online Software for TCE
• TaxWise Online Status
• IRS VITA Certificates: Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Advanced Cancellation of Debt (COD) (Adobe PDF files)

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