Team dynamics
How do you navigate the four stages of team development and help students move forward? Taťána and Tomáš explore conflict, changes in how people work together, and how to tell when a team is working well.
Being a mentor at school
From business to the classroom. How to draw on your experience at work or running a business to mentor in schools, and what you can learn along the way.
Perhaps you already visit a school, or perhaps you’re just considering it. How can you help students? What should you agree on with the teacher, and how do you earn the class’s trust? A teacher and an entrepreneur share their experiences of teaching together — what worked, what surprised them, and what each has learned to do differently through the other’s perspective.
Everyone needs a mentor
What is mentoring, and why bring it into schools? On collaboration between teachers and practitioners, tandem teaching and helping students become independent.
Why mentor in schools?
What mentoring offers mentors and teachers, why they return to schools and what they learn from shared mistakes.
Getting aligned before the start
How teachers and mentors agree on goals, expectations and roles before entering the classroom, and how they reflect on their collaboration.
How to motivate students
How to build trust, encourage student responsibility and learn from mistakes. Practical experiences with motivation and meeting a class for the first time.
Getting stuck, tough situations, and fuckups
What do you do when a group gets stuck, someone coasts along, or a task becomes too much for the students? Practical mentoring situations, handling conflict and emotions, and personal missteps and lessons learned.
Who you’ll hear
Alice Budová
A coach and facilitator for multipotential individuals and teams. She guides the conversation with questions connecting the guests’ experience to what mentors need to know when working in schools.
Taťána Beránková Císařová
An educator at Heroldovy Sady business academy and a creator of learning programmes. With Adaptivio, she connects teaching with business practice and develops programmes for students, teachers, mentors and leaders.
Tomáš Vavrda
An entrepreneur and innovator in education, founder of Adaptivio and creator of the ORIGAM technology platform. He brings practical experience into schools and helps students connect their knowledge with the real world.
Series music
Jiří Strohner
A composer, musician and arranger who creates music for radio plays, audiobooks, theatre, documentaries and animated series. His work includes stories featuring the Little Mole and the animated series Ferdy.