Teaching

Where it started: the classroom

Language teaching in Vienna, Zürich and Nice, my education, and thoughts on learning in the age of AI.

My career began in the classroom. Before the institutions and the industry, I taught languages in three countries, and that experience still shapes how I explain complex ideas.

Early career in teaching

  • February – June 2007German teacher, Rectorat de NiceTen classes of about 25 students, including preparation for the baccalaureate exams.
  • 2005 – 2006French language assistant, Kantonsschule Stadelhofen, ZürichTeaching French at a Swiss upper-secondary school.
  • 2004 – 2005French language assistant, Sonderpädagogisches Zentrum, ViennaTeaching in a special-education centre.

Education

  • 2024 – todayDoctoral research, Sheffield Hallam UniversityStarted as a DBA with Munich Business School and Sheffield Hallam; confirmed in April 2026 and continuing as a part-time PhD from October 2026.
  • 2004 – 2007MA in Research in German Studies and Political ScienceUniversité Nice Sophia Antipolis.
  • 2001 – 2004BA in GermanUniversité Nice Sophia Antipolis.

Thought leadership on education

Teaching taught me that learning is a matter of framing: the same idea lands or fails depending on how it is presented. Generative AI changes that framing, and my chapter on primary education governance studies what happens when it does.

Questions before answers

A good lesson teaches students to ask. If AI supplies answers instantly, schools must protect the time to question.

Language opens doors

Teaching German and French abroad showed me that every language is another way of seeing a problem.

Policy narrows, or widens, the classroom

Education policy decides which inputs, voices and measures count. AI can quietly narrow all three.

Teachers keep the judgement

Tools can support teaching; responsibility for what children learn must stay with people.

Read the research: AI and Primary Education Governance.