The very First EDUCAnet Essay Competition 2017

The very first Essay Competition has been announced recently at EDUCAnet Praha.

The purpose of this essay writing contest is to inspire students from schools of EDUCAnet Net Schools and encourage them to develop and improve their creative writing and critical thinking skills.

The flyer has been created during OAJ lessons. 

OAJ stands for an ICT seminar in English (ESP).

How to Run Your Start-up

On Monday 17 January 2017 during our Conversation classes we visited the American Center U. S. Embassy, Prague.

AC is the venue for seminars, lectures, conferences on American history, politics, science, etc. AC offers up-to-date information on a wide range of U.S. related topics. It also organises art exhibitions and concerts.

We have been cooperating with the American Center for more than 6 years.

The American Center hosted a global interactive webchat on How to Run Your Start-up with two American experts or GIST "Gurus" — Ray Crowell and Melissa Perri, who talked about how entrepreneurs can manage their start-ups.

Ideas worth spreading:

 "You need three things to create a successful start-up: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible."

The upcoming Global Webchat in English at the American Center on "Incubator or Accelerator: Does Your Startup need one?" will be held on Tue, Feb 14, 5 p.m. 

On the occation of Martin Luther King Day (Jan 16) an exhibition "Martin Luther King Murals "takes place in AC´s corridor until February.

Peter Black at Theatre U22

On 20^th December 2016 students of classes C1 and G1 attended a theatre show at Theatre U22, which is a modern drama theatre scene with a café in Prague 10-Uhříněves.

Students’ reviews...

"It was an amazing experience, I immediately want to go and see the second story of P.B."

"I understood almost everything. I'd go again. Actors tried to speak slowly so that we understood them. It was funny as well... "

"That was great! I understood all."

"The story was quite short but it was a happy end. I want to see it again! I hope they´ll put on other shows. Good job!"

"I think the performance was really well done and funny; especially the actors were very convincing. The scenery was realistic and just the perfect setting for this play."

"I did like the play for the characters that were played by the guy that played Rocco and the homeless guys because they were really funny and they had made the play more interesting. I was also kind of shocked when I realised that the whole play was played by only 2 actors and 1 actress. On the other hand I didn't like the ending because I didn't quiet understand it but I guess that it has more parts that explains the first part.

My final opinion is that the whole play was alright and I would recommend it to people that have this kind of humour which I also have."

Implementing CLIL method at language learning

Using CLIL method at primary and secondary schools can be beneficial for the students as its main aim is to acquire knowledge of curricular subject content through a foreign language.

The main aim of CLIL lessons is to develop students‘ communication skills and increase students talking time during the lessons. 
Integrating content and language is not a new concept. However, the importance of implementing the concept has become more essential in current internationalised environment of schools.

Our school EDUCAnet Praha is a great example of a school were teachers successfully implement CLIL method in teaching.

High School Days 2016 in Prague

Studying abroad may change the way you view all kinds of things which you´d previously taken for granted...

Studying abroad during high school is the perfect way for gaining the international perspective, life skills and independence.

A unique opportunity has arisen and we visited High School Days 2016 Fair organised by Alfa Agency.

We met and interacted with admission representatives from wide range of study institutions, colleges from different countries in Europe from Britain, Ireland, Spain and from overseas countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA. 

A Project Day - Creation videos at EDUCAnet Praha

Gone are the days when teaching at schools was all about reading and discussing books and papers because these days, it is all about interaction, innovation and most importantly creativity.

Support creativity and competitiveness were the main purposes of a PROJECT DAY held and organised by EDUCAnet Praha on 4th October.

 It was a great example of collaboration within the net of EDUCAnet schools and also a shining example of interdisciplinary collaboration.

The theme of the Project Day was MAKING A VIDEO on a RETRO OBJECT.

Planning, scripting, rehearsing were the most important steps for a video project.

Students came up with genuine and unique ideas.

The winning video...

A Floppy Disk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-X52QindMPgbzkwRzZ0QjZnTjg/view?ts=5809eada

ELT Czechlist: Ideas from the Heart of Europe

This year in September, the 11th International and 15th National ATECR (Association of Teachers of English of the Czech Republic) Conference was held at the SPŠE Ječná and Pedagogická fakulta UK with plenaries by Šárka Dohnalová, Ben Dobbs and Louel Ross Calleja. 

The conference was really a great event, full of inspiring presentations, networking and socialising. Networking is one of the most important advantages of attending a conference. A great way to meet colleagues and peers is one of the most rewarding components of conference attendance and also a unique opportunity to talk to the speakers, book authors and publishers.

It was just a lovely kick to new school year!

 

Inspiring new publications...and ideas that work!