Drama course

On this course an instructor works with a factual book. His choice is based on the interest of the children and the group structure he works with. During lessons children enter the story, take over the roles of individual characters and through acting they create the environment. Through their play and thinking about the story they can see problems from many points of view and thus make their own opinion on it. One of the main aims of this course is to develop empathy, improvisation and cooperation.

Instructor

Alžběta Ferklová

She studied teaching of pre-school children at the Faculty of Pedagogy of Charles University and also the Faculty of Drama Arts of the Academy of Performing Arts. In the course of her studies she took the opportunity to go to Oslo for a semester. She taught in a kindergarten and also, for a few years, in the primary school Londýnská in Prague 2 where she worked with junior children. These days she attends to her three daughters, guides drama courses in a kindergarten and primary school, gives seminars to kindergarten and primary school teachers and teaches drama at the Faculty of Pedagogy of Charles University.

Apart from enjoying her work and her children, she enjoys creating things, traveling around Europe in an old campervan. She doesn’t turn down trying any sport and she rests most in her cottage in the mountains Jizerské hory.

"With regard to my subject of study, the Montessori method did not appeal to me as to a student but much more as to a parent-teacher. I like that it awakens children‘s desire to learn new things through its natural but, at the same time, thought-out way, that it works with clear and non-violent rules, and that it participates in the development of style and upbringing of our children.“