Spring 2026 course with Jane Dewhurst Bratschi

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 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

COMING SOON!

Four Plays in Five Days – London Drama Course 2026

Dates: Monday Oct 5th – Friday Oct 9th 2026

This is the continuation of Peter Storfer’s “5 plays in 5 days”. Still in the same spirit but in a slightly new format, you will discover four plays of different periods, see them on stage, get an insight into the process from the page to the stage. Not only will you get an idea of theatre tradition in London but you will also have the opportunity to meet people from the theatre world. Here is the comment of a former participant: “It was a truly wonderful course looking at 4 plays from various angles and going to watch them at different London theatres. We met with 2 actors, a writer and a stage manager! I would recommend it to all our teachers.”

Everybody who is interested in theatre is welcome. For more information and/or enrolment please click on the webpalette link: https://www.webpalette.ch/de/kurse/4-plays-in-5-days

Organisers: Susanna Lehmann & Chantal Gruber, Geneva