Documentation of the project work carried out for my Postgraduate Certificate

WORKSHOPS & COURSES 2001-2008 by Nicole Küpfer

• April 16, 2010
  IGB Zürich
  The American Dream

• November 14, 2009
  ETAS Ticino
  Creating Stories through Drama
  
  

• November 21, 2008
  Drama techniques in literature teaching
  Aus- und Weiterbildung der Lehrpersonen der Sekundarstufe ll

  Institut für Gymnasial- und Berufspädagogik IGB

  find a detailed programme here
  

• October 25, 2008

  A Day in the Caribbean!

  Drama work with fiction, non-fiction and visual input

  find a detailed programme here

• September 20, 2008
  ETAS SIG-day

  Movement and language: drama workshop young learners
  find a detailed programme here

• June 20, 2008
  Gesamtschweizerische Tagung für Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer

  20. Juni 2008 – Universität Bern
  Bild – Sprache – Text; dramapädagogische Sprachvermittlung

  find a detailed programme here

• April 25, 2008
  A Forest of Stories - Working with Drama in the Classroom.
  find a detailed programme here

• March 29, 2008, Basel
  Tausend mögliche Geschichten! – Bildinterpretationen via Drama.
  find a detailed programme here

• January 12/13, 2008, Lugano
  ETAS 23rd AGM and Convention
  Dipping under the water – drama techniques to explore the hidden chunk of the iceberg.
  find a detailed programme here

• April 2007

  ETAS Basel

  From ‘hot seating’ to ‘still image’ – drama techniques for the classroom

  find a detailed programme here

• March 2007

  ILeB

  The Empty Classroom - fill it with drama!

  find a detailed programme here

• January 20/21, 2007, Solothurn
  ETAS 23rd AGM and Convention
  The Empty Classroom - fill it with drama!
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• April 2006

  National Drama International Conference 

  „Drama for the Future"

  The Empty Classroom

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• March 2, 2006
  ETAS Chur branch

  Drama in the classroom:

  warm-ups and games for grammar and vocabulary
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• June 5/6, 2004
  WEEKEND-WORKSHOP DRAMA IN EDUCATION.
  find a detailed programme here

• May 8, 2004
  ETAS SIG-day
  'The Empty Classroom‘ – drama work based on Peter Brook’s approach of directing.
  find a detailed programme here

• March 6, 2004
  ILeB Kurs: Fortbildungskurs für LehrerInnen
  ‘The Empty Classroom‘ - szenische Arbeit nach der Philosophie von Peter Brook.
  find a detailed programme here

• January 17/18, 2004
  ETAS AGM
  'The Empty Classroom‘ – drama work based on Peter Brook’s approach of directing.
  find a detailed programme here

• September 6/7, 2003
  Wädenswil, Raumprojekt Villa:
  weekend-workshop for teachers
  "The empty classroom" - Peter Brook's philosophy in the classroom.
  find a detailed programme here

• May 10, 2003
  ETAS SIG-day in Weinfelden: Meeting the ghost, exploring The Canterville Ghost through drama techniques. Workshop with Carine Reymond.
  

• April 30-May 2, 2003
  Kongress Unterrichtsentwicklung WBZ/SIBP
  Nationale und kulturelle Identität – mehrsprachige szenische Arbeit.
  find a detailed programme here

• March 8, 2003
  ILeB day-course for teachers: National and cultural identity - a multilingual approach through drama.
  find a detailed programme here
  

• November 23/24, 2002
  Wädenswil, Raumprojekt Villa:
  weekend-workshop for teachers and advanced learners.
  drama and writing.
  find a detailed programme here
  

• November 9/10, 2002
  ETAS AGM
  drama project conditionals (based on Headway New Intermediate, unit 8).
  find a detailed programme here

• May 4 2002
  ETAS SIG DAY
  
  Drama in education: drama strategies to use in warmers and with a short story
  
  "You somehow forget that you’re at school.” — This is the feedback from one of my students after a double-lesson of drama teaching.
  Drama strategies applied to language teaching help students explore a text, novel or topic through physical activity. Students and teacher work in and out of role and develop a better understanding for an issue that is of relevance to the class, for characters in a story or for their own situation in life. As the drama is developed, the students are given choices to influence the work process and must take over responsibility for their decisions. Thus, the focus clearly shifts away from the teacher as the only person in charge for the proceedings within the classroom.
  In our workshop, we will do several warm-up activities in order to create a good group spirit. Once back in the classroom, they will help you get your students up from behind their desks. The short story River by the Greek author Antonis Samarakis will serve as a stimulus to become familiar with a number of drama strategies that can be applied to promote speaking and writing.
  " After the lessons this afternoon, I feel relaxed and enthusiastic about the proceedings next week. Successful drama teaching means to me that I can work without feeling the tension of having to keep the students on task constantly. My students and I can discover qualities about each other that are locked up during most of our time in class.” (from my diary).
  

• March 8, 2002
  ILEB day-course for teachers: Language made alive through Drama
  
  Every teacher knows the struggle of making the material from the coursebook become alive, the difficulty of reaching the students on a creative and emotional level and yet giving them the feeling that they progress in their language skills. Drama techniques used in language teaching can help provide the necessary context to create a stress-free learning environment for successful language acquisition.
  

• January 26/27, 2002
  Workshop for teachers in Wädenswil
  
  Aim: Make you familiar with some of the ideas behind 'drama in education' as opposed to the drama work necessary for the performance of a play.
  
  Programme: The workshop will mainly consist of practical work and involves quite a lot of physical activity. The whole weekend should be seen as a 'give and take' among all the participants and me. We will share experiences in the group and discuss how the activities can be adapted to your particular teaching situation. Basically, the activities will be useful for students of intermediate to advanced levels of English.
  
  Saturday afternoon:

- Different warm-up activities helpful to create a group spirit.

- Drama techniques that can be used to introduce students to drama work. We will practise positions and combine individual images with movement and words. Some of the techniques will be still images, link depiction and thought tracking.

- Key elements of a drama lesson: warm-up, keying into role, keying into location, building belief, creating tension.

Sunday morning:
Drama work based on John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men. (Knowledge of the novel is useful but not necessary).

Sunday afternoon:
Sharing ideas and experiences from participants.

 

• September 1, 2001
  
  ETAS workshop Uster: Drama methods to create natural contexts for communication. Suitable for teachers of intermediate to advanced students.
  
  You don't have to have any acting skills to participate. You won't learn these skills at the workshop, either, nor those of a director of a school play. My motto is TRICKS AND TREATS — year round — and accordingly, you will go home with a bag full of treats, ready to do the trick!
  Regardless what area of the language you teach, drama will help the students loosen up and move in a stress-free environment. Whether your teaching goal is an area of grammar, reinforcing vocabulary, interpreting a poem, short story, novel or play, associating with people from foreign cultures ... the list is endless and drama can provide an answer.
  

• April 7/8, 2001
  WEEKEND-WORKSHOP DRAMA AND DANCE
  Workshop for teachers in Wädenswil
  
  Working with visual input, creating still images, link depiction, warmers, working with texts