NEW! Spring 2026 course with Jane Dewhurst Bratschi

Registration is now open! Scroll to the bottom to register.

Advanced language practice opportunity

Interested in advanced speaking practice and engaging with current issues with fellow English teachers? Then why not join us for our spring course of 2026?

Course title: Teaching the 'Me' Generation?

Description: How do shifting values, identities, and life choices shape the way today’s students learn, think, and relate to authority? This seminar invites teaching professionals to explore key ideas from contemporary social theory on post-traditionalism, individualisation, and generational change. As traditions and collective norms give way to personal choice and lifestyle diversity, classrooms increasingly reflect a world where identity and belonging are negotiated rather than inherited. We will discuss a short theoretical text participants have read ahead of the course which introduces these concepts, then consider their concrete implications for teaching practice, classroom relationships, and curriculum design.

Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will have:

• a shared vocabulary for analysing sociocultural shifts anda framework for analysing
• generational differences in motivation and values; and
• generational differences in motivation and values; and
• strategies for fostering relevance, inclusion, and authentic connection in post-traditional classrooms.

Date: Wednesday 25th March 2026
Time: 5-7pm
Location: Zurich, Kantonsschule Hottingen
Tutor: Jane Dewhurst Bratschi, Gymnasium teacher of English and Lektorin UZH

Registration

Please register for the course by February 13, 2026. 

The course fee is 30 CHF. 

Information about preparatory reading as well as confirmation of registration and payment details will be sent out in the coming weeks.