The staff at our department uses the summer break not only to recharge the batteries, but also to gain new knowledge and update their skills.
This July, Mgr. Šedrlová travelled to Bordeaux for a summer course for French teachers, organised by Alliance Française - one of the most renowned institutions teaching French all over the world for more than a hundred years. The course covered the key aspects of effective teaching, including the structure of the teaching unit, the process of knowledge acquisition from conceptualization to final independent production, the use of IT tools and the creation of teaching materials from real-life sources. The training also included lesson observation and subsequent analysis. All this was possible thanks to the Erasmus+ programme.
At the end of August, Mgr. Langerová travelled to Lugano, Switzerland, where the Università della Svizzera italiana hosted "Summer School in Social Sciences Methods". Petra spent a week there at the workshop Conducting a Grounded Theory Study. Grounded theory is a social science methodology that discovers, describes, and explains social phenomena from the perspective of the people being studied, and this course offered many theoretical and practical workshops that gave participants a basic insight into the methodology, terminology, data collection and analysis, and ethical issues associated with this research approach.
