Publication details
Lost in the Matrix? Find Your Way to Your Interest Group! Maintaining Quality and Enhancing Staff Development.
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Masaryk University Language Centre has substantially expanded both in the number of students and staff and become the largest LC in the Czech Republic. This brought a necessity to adjust the organizational structure of the LC in order to enhance quality of cooperation and communication at various levels of the structure in terms of simplifying LC management, exploiting LC pedagogical expertise and maintaining high quality of language education. It was decided that the LC would be structured on a pattern of an adjusted matrix model whose structure provides for communication across the various levels of the LC and enables information to reach the intended audience via several avenues, thus making cooperation of various staff members possible. The paper concentrates especially on means that help to develop both internal and external teacher training via the matrix and special interest groups within its pedagogical section. The system helps the LC teachers to meet not only in the traditional way according to the languages they teach and their language specialisations but also according to their interests in teaching methodologies or according to their needs as researchers. These platforms enable teachers to find colleagues with similar interests and to start networking. LC staff members’ feedback on the change in the LC matrix structure is used to illustrate how these novelties help the teachers in personal and professional development and how sharing know how, pedagogical expertise as well as hands-on classroom experience are perceived as crucial in case pedagogical quality should be maintained. |
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