Academic Skills Center

Deborah Nováková has been teaching at CERGE-EI since August 2012. She received her M.A. in TEFL/TESL from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2007. From October 2007 to October 2010 she was working as an Instructor, course coordinator, curriculum developer and a professional development facilitator at Maastricht University Language Centre in Netherlands.  She was also at Maastricht University from 2001-2003. From 2003 to 2007 she was working as an Instructor, curriculum developer and an editor at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, Canada, where she worked on both domestic and international projects.

Her research interests include curriculum design, teacher training and professional development, successful intercultural communication in international contexts, student-centred learning approaches and methods, successful team-building in classroom and teaching in team contexts.