NYSTCE German CST case studies

NYSTCE German CST · Put your knowledge to work in context.

The NYSTCE German Content Specialty Test is one of the Content Specialty Tests (CSTs) listed in the New York State Teacher Certification Examinations program, the certification testing system operated for the New York State Education Department and delivered through Pearson. In the program's test list, German appears alongside the other world-language CSTs - French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish - and it is a separate test from BEA-German, which belongs to the Bilingual Education Assessment family used for bilingual classroom placements. The NYSTCE German CST case studies are 5 cases and about 4,100 words.

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You teach German 3 at a suburban New York high school with 24 students, five of them heritage speakers (two raised in Germany, three raised in the U.S. by German-speaking parents).

852 words, about 4 min 2

Translating Contested Vocabulary for a Colonial-History Exhibition

You sit on a three-person committee preparing English-language wall labels for a traveling exhibition organized with the Deutsches Historisches Museum on German colonialism, opening at a New York museum in ten weeks. The German curators' text uses 'Völkerschau,' 'Kolonialwaren,' 'Fremdsein,' and 'Kaiserreich.' The exhibition designer has imposed a hard limit of 120 characters per label and has ruled out footnotes, endnotes, and bracketed glosses.

810 words, about 4 min 3

Abridged Reader vs. Original Text in an AP German Section

You teach German 4 and AP German at a district where the 11th-grade honors section - 18 students, 12 of whom will sit the AP exam in May - has been reading Dürrenmatt's Der Besuch der alten Dame. The department owns 30 copies of an abridged A2 reader and exactly 12 copies of the original text.

879 words, about 4 min 4

An Austrian Heritage Speaker and a Bundesdeutsch Rubric

You teach German at a high school with a large Austrian contingent. One student, Lena, lived in Graz from ages 6 to 12; her written German is fluent and confident.

794 words, about 4 min 5

Zero Budget, a 1994 Textbook, and a Swiss German Listening Track

Your district's German budget is zero this year. The previous teacher left 32 copies of a 1994 textbook (pre-Reform orthography: daß, muß, Schiffahrt, Kompromiß, rauh) and a CD of authentic listening material whose other tracks are standard German news broadcasts but which also contains a 2003 Swiss radio interview conducted in Zürichdeutsch, with no transcript.

765 words, about 4 min