Real-World Strategies for the Real-World Classroom - Jak
                               motivovat a zaujmout žáky při výuce angličtiny - workshop











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            After two semesters teaching pre-service and in-service teachers in the Czech Republic, Dr

            Falter Thomas and Michelle Devereaux will share some strategies their Czech students have 
            and engaging for their own classrooms. From collaborative learning to language exploration
            details how to bring useful instructional models into any classroom. After teaching in sch

            years across six grades, Angela Falter Thomas is now an Associate Professor of Reading & L
            at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, USA. She holds the honor of one 
            20 teachers in the USA to have achieved two National Board Certifications, sometimes refer

            the teaching profession’s highest honor. She has published over 25 articles and presents e
            at national and international conferences. At her university, she was named the Collegiate

            Association’s Professor of the Year, received the Excellence in College Teaching Award, an
            Top Three Finalist for the university’s Master Teaching Award. Angela enjoys traveling. Sh
            39 different countries and 33 different states in the USA. She leads study-abroad groups o

            students overseas so that she can share her love of traveling and learning with her studen
            she is on a US Fulbright Scholar award teaching for Palacky Univeristy in Olomouc. Michell
            an Associate Professor of English and English Education at Kennesaw State University in Ke

            USA. Her work is heavily influenced by her five years as a high school English teacher, wh
            taught her the power and personal nature of language use. She has published three books on
            instruction and variation in the classroom, with a fourth book coming out in November, 201

            book, Teaching About Dialect Variations and Language in Secondary English Classrooms: Powe
            Prejudice (Routledge, 2015), won the Richard A. Meade Award for Excellence in English Educ
            She also regularly publishes articles and presents locally, nationally, and internationall

            of language instruction and equity in the classroom. When she’s not thinking, teaching, or
            language in the classroom, she loves swimming in waterfalls, talking to strangers, and goi
            never been before. This year she is a US Fulbright Scholar in Usti nad Labem at Jan Evange

            University.