Vice-President

President-Elect

Amanda Beck

Amanda Beck fell in love with German as a high-schooler and knew during a school trip to Austria, Germany, and Switzerland that German was in her future. After graduation, she studied at Valparaiso University, where she participated in German Club, Delta Phi Alpha, and the Kinder lernen Deutsch program. Amanda lived in the Kade-Duesenberg German House throughout five semesters and studied abroad for a semester in Reutlingen before she completed her studies in 2007. Amanda graduated in 2013 with her Masters of Education from Indiana Wesleyan University and has since completed 18 hours of coursework in German through the Germanic Studies Department at Indiana University Bloomington.

Amanda began teaching German at William Henry Harrison High School in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2007. She doubled the size of the program in 5 years and currently has a full course load of German 1, German 3/Indiana University Advanced College Project dual-credit, and German 4/Indiana University Advanced College Project dual-credit. In addition to teaching, she sponsors German Club, the German Quiz Bowl team, and a German American Partnership Program exchange with the Karl-Friedrich Gymnasium in Mannheim, Germany. Outside of the classroom, Amanda serves her building as the world language department chair, the Senior Class sponsor, and the HHS Pickleball Club sponsor.

Amanda has been involved in numerous professional organizations through her career. From 2015-2022, Amanda was a member of the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association Executive Board, serving as Secretary for three years before stepping into the roles of interim Second Vice President, Conference Chair, President, and Immediate Past President. Amanda volunteered in 2023 as Secretary for the AATG Indiana, was elected Vice President in 2024, and was elected to the Central States Board of Directors in 2025. In addition to serving her colleagues, Amanda was selected for the 2024 Armstrong Teacher Educator cohort at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where she has the pleasure of working with per-service educators and education professors and researchers.

Amanda is a 2025 ACTFL National Teacher of the Year Finalist, a 2023 Indiana Department of Education Teacher of the Year Top 10 Finalist, the 2024 Central States Teacher of the Year, the 2023 AATG/Goethe-Institut Outstanding GAPP Coordinator, and the 2022 Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association Teacher of the Year.