Mobility reports

Lucie Pavlíčková attended a two-week teacher training course in Valencia in August 2015. The course was organized by Hispania Language School, which had been elected the best Spanish language teaching institution in the past two years. She most appreciated the individual approach of the teachers as well as their teaching methods. Besides the actual course, she could perform job-shadowing activities in lessons of various levels and discuss them subsequently with a tutor in her one-to-one classes. What she will never forget is one day of learning the language on the beach, which she especially values as an obvious motivating factor. On top of her classes, Lucie also attended a talk on history of the city, took a flamenco lesson, visited the Oceanography museum and Science Museum, learned to prepare traditional drinks such as Ague de Valencia or Sangria. She believes such study stays are largely beneficial for both teachers and their students.

On June 8-12 2015, Štěpán Nosek participated in a course entitled British Culture for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language organized by Language Link, London. The course concentrated on British culture from both historical and modern perspectives. It aimed at issues that currently resonate in the British society (advantages and problems associated with multiculturalism, Scottish separatism, relation of British people to European institutions, non-British capital as part of British economy, youth culture, evolution of British English, social tensions or educational reforms). Štěpán was especially benefited with the possibility to share teaching methods of British culture dissemination with other teachers on the course (most of whom came from Denmark and Italy) and exchange experience of various western educational systems. He also believes to be able to use the contacts with other participants of the course to establish further project cooperation with their institutions. (more…)

In 2015, Lukáš Zapadlo attended a two-week language, methodological and cultural course at The Linguaviva Centre, a language school in the centre of the capital of Ireland. The programme of the course consisted of general English language course with the emphasis on conversation and comprehension improvement in the mornings and afternoon individual lessons focusing on methodology of English language teaching as well as Irish culture, history and literature. What he particularly appreciated was gaining a general overview not only of the course of Irish literature, but also the evolution of contemporary Irish identity and language. He also acquired a lot of knowledge related to the history of Dublin. He feels particularly benefited with the opportunity to share his teaching experience with other students involved. Apart form of the course, Lukáš participated in a number of trips to plenty of Irish places of interest, such as Cliffs of Moher, Galway or Wicklow Mountains, organized by the school and travel agencies.

In March 2015, Jitka Fišerová and Šárka Škodová performed a five-day study stay at the Oesede gymnasium (grammar school) in Georgsmarienhütte, Germany. Their stay at the secondary school, which has collaborated with Jiráskovo gymnasium as a partner and exchange institution for more than 20 years, was particularly focused on job-shadowing activities. Their aim was, above all, to acquire knowledge of the partner school’s organization of the educational process, use of new technologies for teaching purposes, management of school life, excursions or other extra-curricular activities as well as organization of the student exchanges. Besides the job-shadowing and inspection activities in the lessons of selected subjects followed by analytical interviews with the teachers, they got involved with events connected to a one-week school project named Management Information Game, organized by the school in cooperation with a local business and industrial body.

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