Mgr. Kateřina Dvořáková, Ph.D.

room: TL 311
phone: 387 773 154
e-mail: katerina@pf.jcu.cz

* born May 24, 1974 in Ostrava

Studies

1990-1992	Armand Hammer United World College, Montezuma, New Mexico, USA.
1992-1999	Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Mgr. degree in English and Pedagogy
1994-1995	University of Texas at Austin, USA
1997-1998	Suffolk University, Boston, USA
2005-2010	Charles University Prague, Faculty of Education, Ph.D. programme in Pedagogy, Dissertation title: The Waldorf Approach to Teaching Foreign Languages

Subjects taught at the Faculty of Education

• ELT methodology for primary school
• Communication skills
• Practical language
• Teaching practice for primary and middle school

 

Winter semester courses 2011/12

• English Language Teaching Methodology for Primary School I (Didaktika I/DANP1)
• English Language Teaching Methodology for Primary School III (Didaktika III/DANP3)
• English Language Teaching Methodology for Primary School I (Didaktika I/DIP1)
• English Language Teaching Methodology I (DIPK1)
• Communication Skills (Komunikační dovednosti/KDP)
• Teaching practice II (Průběžná pedagogická praxe z anglického jazyka/PPPP2)
• Průběžná pedagogická praxe z anglického jazyka - PZ

 

Publications

 

Professional interests and participation in projects

• European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz: Teaching modern languages to young learners (2006), European language portfolio in whole-school use (2008), Assessing young learners' literacy skills (2010), for more info see http://www.ecml.at
• CLIL (2010): Metodik v oboru pedagogika - anglický jazyk, projekt "Propojení cizího jazyka a vyučovacího předmětu na základní škole", Operační program Vzdělávání pro konkurenceschopnost/Zvyšování kvality ve vzdělávání
• John Haycraft Classroom Exploration Scholarship (2010), IATEFL: Harrogate, Great Britain; a talk on Discovering and developing young pupils' learning strategies
• VIVACE - Voices for Inclusion, Voices for Access in Language Learning and Cultural Education, a Socrates Lingua project (2006-2009) aimed at bringing foreign language learning to marginalized sectors
• Socrates-Erasmus teacher exchanges (Cuenca/Spain, Eger/Hungary, Augsburg/Germany)
• In-service teacher training, seminars for Krajské centrum vzdělávání, Plzeň

 

Personal interests

• education and Waldorf pedagogy in particular, a co-founder of Základní škola waldorfská a mateřská škola o.p.s. České Budějovice, for more info see http://www.waldorfcb.cz
• a member of UWC Czech National Committee, for more info see http://www.uwc.cz
• family, travelling, reading, hiking, gardening, handicrafts