Empower Future Learning

The learning process is designed to promote ‘lifelong learning’. Working in a small network (WOL circle), you will develop new learning scenarios, use them in your own teaching, reflect on them and develop them further. The overall process is based on today’s agile models: the small learning and development steps allow for plenty of flexibility.

Semester 1 

• You will reflect on your own teaching and develop new learning settings. 

• You will examine the educational mindset that the school of the future needs and consider what is required for a successful change process. 

Semester 2 

• You will implement new learning settings in your own teaching within the framework of WOL circles (Working Out Loud). 

• Based on your findings from the first semester, you will develop a strategy for transforming the learning culture in your own school. 

Semester 3 

• You will explore skills-based methods for new learning settings in greater depth. 

• Following consultation with the head teacher, you will begin to implement the strategy you have developed in your own school. 

• You will evaluate the implementation of the strategy and continuously adapt it as required. 

• You will continue to guide the transformation of the school’s learning culture. 

To enable you to implement the methods and content in your own school, this part-time continuing education programme is structured according to what is known as the ‘pedagogical double-decker’ format.

• The focus of this programme is on ‘Workplace Learning’ and therefore on working on your own projects. You will, however, meet regularly with other participants in WOL circles. 

• Halfway through the programme, you will begin conducting a continuing education project involving the teaching staff at your own school. 

• Presentations, tutorials, literature study, reflection, participation in the O365 Learning Lab and eCollaboration are other methods that feature in this programme. 

To earn this CAS qualification, you must attend contact hours on a regular basis, participate actively in the WOL circle and pass the competency assessment. The assessment is based on your ePortfolio, documenting the development steps and reflecting on your own learning process.

You will be admitted to the programme with a university degree /teaching qualification and at least two years of professional experience.

You are an established member of the teaching staff at a German-speaking school in Switzerland.

The head teacher at your school is interested in a change process and is willing to offer you support and the leeway to introduce any potential developments to the school. 

You are interested in modernising the teaching profession (learning-centred approach) and are ready to question your own teaching mindset.

You do not need to be an ‘IT expert,’ but basic computer literacy and a willingness to explore new media are important.

360 working hours over three semesters.

Teaching takes place on Thursday afternoons. This half-day will consist, by turns, of contact hours, individual work on your own projects and regular meetings in the WOL circles.

Registration closes six weeks before the programme begins. We recommend that you register early to avoid disappointment. 

CHF 8,500. As part of an incentive scheme, schoolteachers qualify for a discount of CHF 2,000.

All course materials and assessments are included in the price.