Mgr. Bc. Šárka Dohnalová

Curriculum vitae

Name, first names, scientific degrees

• Mgr. Šárka Dohnalová (MA (in English) et BA (in French)) Date of birth: 30 July 1973 Residence: Nedbalova 29, Brno Status: divorced, 1 daughter (born in 2001)

Department/Faculty/University

• English Language Department Centre for Language Education

Education and academic qualifications

• MA (in English) et BA in French ELT and Drama in Education Certificate (2000, The British Council) Low Impact Aerobics Licence (1996)

Professional experience

• 1998- English language teacher at JAMU Brno (Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts); since 2000 drama educator – using drama for language teaching 1999-2001 Cooperating with Person Education, Longman – seminars, workshops and performances for children 1999- British Council teacher trainer in the field of ELT and drama (integrating problematic children in the classroom through drama techniques) 2004 appointed Court interpreter by the Regional Court in Brno 2004- Teaching English to very young Learners (ZŠ and MŠ Chalabalova, Brno – Dalton plan) 2005- teacher trainer for Oxford University Press 2006- Teacher of English at the Pedagogical Faculty, MU Brno 2006 Main teacher trainer of the National Institute for further Education of inset teachers in their project Languages through Play (focused on very young learners, i.e. 3-7 year-olds) 2007 Kindergarten Teacher Trainer at Pilgrims´ intensive teachers training summer courses at the University of Kent 2007 Co-operating on Drama workshops with Andy Kempe, University of Reading, Special Education and Drama Dept. 2008 Kindergarten Teacher Trainer at Pilgrims´ intensive teachers training summer courses at the University of Kent 2008 Co-operating on Drama workshops with Andy Kempe, University of Reading, Special Education and Drama Dept.

Teaching activities

• - September 2000: International Conference ATECR in Plzeň (drama workshop: Integrating literature into ELT) - January 2001: Children’s Literature Conference in Hradec Králové (drama workshop: drama techniques for teaching literature to small children) - September 2001: 5. International Conference ATECR in Zlín 1. Poster of the performance we prepared with my drama students at JAMU for secondary schools (Romeo and Juliet) 2. EDEN - common SIG group presentation under ATECR - April 2002: organiser and Presenter of the 1st International Miniconference of drama in education at JAMU - September 2003 International Conference of ATECR at the Pedagogical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno – organiser, presenter, provided the musical opening (with the Philharmonic Choir of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Brno) - September 2005 – International Conference of ATECR – Pedagogical Faculty of MU, Brno - presenter - Every year presenting Kindergarten and Primary methodology at Dalton Conferences of Brno - April 2006 – Primary Conference OUP – Using Puppet Theatre in the Primary classroom - April 2007– Primary Conference OUP – Methodology and Project Teaching of English in kindergarten - September 2007 – Back to Comenius ,Přerov – 1) Using Portfolio on various levels of teaching (kindergarten to University – Where are the aims? What is it for? How close or open it should be?) 2)Teaching English to 4-8 year olds (English in kindergarten and 1st and 2nd year of Primary school) - September 2007 – Faculty of Education, Brno, The Special Education Dept. – Drama as a tool in the classroom with children with special needs - November 2007 – Ideas that Work, Faculty of Education, Pilsen – Harry Potter mania or using magic in the language classroom - April 2008– Primary Conference OUP – Harry Potter mania or using magic in the language classroom - September 2008 – Faculty of Education, Brno, The Special Education Dept. – Drama as a tool in the classroom with children with special needs 5. Projects - December 2000: interactive performance based on Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol - September 2001: interactive performance based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Julie - March 2002: project Theatre in English for the children’s Polárka Theatre – language preparation of their ensemble for the English performance of Huckleberry Finn for the theatre season of 2002/2003. (All the mentioned projects are pedagogical projects – we first work with structured drama in the classroom, then prepare a performance on the basis of the based improvisations (language level – usually 2), send schools pre-teach materials, give them more materials when they arrive at the theatre including various follow-ups)

Research activities

• Special Education Department Research - Drama in Education and students with special needs and Educational or behavioral disorders

Professional stays abroad

• 2007 Pilgrims Teacher Training College, University of Kent, Canterbury (1 month) 2008 Pilgrims Teacher Training College, University of Kent, Canterbury (1 month)

Non-university activities

• British Council Drama Teacher Trainer for ELT, Storytelling and Croscurricular Topics Creative Drama Section

Major publications

• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. The Psychology of Great Teaching: (Almost) Everything Teachers Ought to Know. the Pilgrims Teacher Trainer Journal. Pilgrims.co.uk, 2023, roč. 2023, vol 36 No. 4 Summer 2023, s. 15-16. URL info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Teaching Structured Drama through ZOOM. In Drama Days 2021. 2021. URL info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. DRAMA IN ELT. In Týden CJV. 2018. URL info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. 36th Annual International TESOL FRANCE Colloquium. 2017. URL info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Introduction - Drama in Education for English Language Teaching. In školení pedagogů CJV MU. 2017. URL info
• HANUŠOVÁ, Světlana, Martin ADAM, Naděžda VOJTKOVÁ, Šárka DOHNALOVÁ, Lucie PODROUŽKOVÁ, Alena DOBROVOLNÁ, Pavla BUCHTOVÁ, Tamara VÁŇOVÁ, Katarína LEXOVÁ, Gabriela OAKLANDOVÁ, Ailsa Marion RANDALL, Martin NĚMEC, Radek VOGEL, Jana ZERZOVÁ, Jana CHOCHOLATÁ, Sonia HOMOLKA a Michael GEORGE. ELT Signposts 2017. 2017. info
• SYSLOVÁ, Zora a Šárka DOHNALOVÁ. Inclusion in Pre-school Education: Policy and Practice. In Good start: Supporting Social and Emotional Competences of Pre-School Children. 2016. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka a Lucie PODROUŽKOVÁ. Shakespeare in the Language Classroom. In SKA 2016 2nd Annual Interational SKA ELT Conference. 2016. URL info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka a Tomáš ANDRÁŠIK. Shakespeare in the classroom. 2016. URL info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Language as the tool of the tools for including everyone in the classroom. 2016. URL info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. A girl sold to be married into a foreign country. 2016. URL info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Knowing the map – teaching and learning something you are not good at. In 23rd International IATEFL Conference Slovenia. 2016. URL info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Shakespeare in the ELT classroom. In 18th P.A.R.K. Conference. 2016. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. EFL Methodology for Very Young Learners (4-9). In Pilgrims Teacher Training College, Canterbury, Kent, UK. 2015. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Text and Drama - Acting our way through literature. In 1st INTERNATIONAL SKA ELT CONFERENCE. 2015. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Multisenzoriální drama. In Konference TedEX Kroměříž. 2015. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Language and beyond. In Oxford Professional Development Day for Secondary Teachers. 2015. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Drama as a multisensory approach to include SEN learners in an EFL classroom. Online. In Povrivčáková Silvia. Teaching Foreign Languages to Learners with Special Educational Needs. elektronické. Nitra: Constantine the Philosopher Unive: Nitra: Constantine the Philosopher University, 2015, s. 101-110. Pokrivčáková, S. et al. (2015). Teaching Foreign Languages to Learners with Special Educational Needs: e-textbook for foreign language teachers. Nitra. ISBN 978-80-558-0941-0. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.17846/SEN.2015.101-110. URL info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Dys - a problem or personal enrichment? In Konference Shades of ELT, Uherské Hradiště. 2015. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Inclusive teaching for all. In konference NIDV Zlín: Motivační setkání vyučujících cizích jazyků – angličtina – XV. ročník. 2014. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Early Foreign Language Learning: Yes or No. In JAZYKY PRO NEJMENŠÍ: MŠMT, Karmelitská 7, Praha 1 – Malá Strana. 2014. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Festivadlo. 2014. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Raná výuka cizích jazyků. In Konference Mozaika pro učitelky MŠ. 2012. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Multisensoriální drama jako vhodná intervence u dyslektických žáků. In Konference Humanistic Language Teaching, Nitra. 2012. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Intenzivní metodický kurz didaktiky výuky cizích jazyků u předškolních dětí. In Intenzivní metodický kurz didaktiky výuky cizích jazyků u předškolních dětí Sepetná. 2012. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Angličtina všemi smysly. In It´s English Time - Konference pro vedoucí pracovníky a učitele angličtiny mateřských škol. 2012. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. CLIL - Integrated Teaching of English and History. 2011. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Sherlock Holmes as a structured drama. 2011. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Kindergarten Methodology. In Teacher Training College, University of Kent, Canterbury. 2010. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Metoda CLIL - Francouzský jazyk: Obsahově a jazykově integrované vyučování na 2. stupni ZŠ a nižším stupni víceletých gymnázií. In Metoda CLIL: Obsahově a jazykově integrované vyučování na 2. stupni ZŠ a nižším stupni víceletých gymnázií, číslo akreditace semináře: 10 161/2010-25-236. 2010. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Storytelling - Shakespeare in a foreign language classroom. 2009. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Storytelling and TPR in foreign language acquisition in VYL. 2009. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Storytelling in foreign language acquisition. 2009. URL info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Storytelling - Josef Čapek for CLIL puproses. In LEEDS - Bewerrely Community School - Introducing Czech Culture. 2009. info
• DOHNALOVÁ, Šárka. Storytelling in language Acquisition. In 9. Mezinárodní konference asociace učitelů angličtiny v Českém Těšíně. 2009. info

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