Start your first year of teaching with connections, community, and confidence! The Ready, Set, Deutsch New Teacher Starter Kit gives you the tools and inspiration you need to kick off your teaching career and set yourself up for success for years to come. This specially curated bundle was created with your unique needs in mind so that you can establish your own rhythm in teaching without feeling like you are starting from scratch.

This Starter Kit comes with 10 essential resources for first-year German teachers:

Give Them What They Want: A Guide to Increasing Enrollment in World Language Class

Create a classroom culture that will make your first year memorable and keep your students coming back year after year.

23 Activities to Liven Up Your World Language Classroom

Use these versatile activities to help you bring engagement and fun to your lessons.

Picture Talk auf Deutsch

Build Picture Talk into your teaching repertoire to pique your students’ creativity and boost conversation in your classroom.

Erasable Cool Cubes™

Make language learning a hands-on experience while building cooperation and differentiation.

Cool Cubes™ Activity Book

Get classroom-ready activities to use with your Cool Cubes so you don’t have to create them yourself.

Colors Skinny Poster

Colors likely are one of the first things you will teach and vocabulary you’ll come back to over and over.

How to Learn a Language Skinny Poster

Inspire your students to see German as more than just a class with cool study tips that immerse them in real-world language.

Always Do Your Best Poster

Your most important job in the classroom is supporting your students, and this poster is an inspiring way to reflect this commitment in your classroom décor.

$25 Teacher’s Discovery Digital Gift Card

As your unique teaching style emerges, use this card to add new tools you need to round out your repertoire.

Training Video

Let expert teacher trainer Justin Slocum Bailey walk you through the resources in your Starter Kit and give you tips for maximizing them during your first year of teaching.

Learn more about the Ready, Set, Deutsch Starter Kit for first-year teachers and get more insights into how to use the resources in the free Teacher’s Inspiration Guide.