Lior Shneior, Karin Korčáková
Lior Shneior
Lior Shneior is a German-Israeli choreographer, dancer and movement instructor.
Born in a kibbutz in Israel, he completed his dance training at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen and then worked as a dancer and choreographer in New York City from 2008 to 2012. He has been living and working in Berlin since 2012. Shneior is the artistic director of Berlin Moves, a Berlin-based project. Since 2016 it has collaborated with more than 300 young dancers and artists and has built a unique bridge between urban movers, media artists, fashion designers, singers and composers, as well as between street dance and classical music, underground, pop and high culture.
Shneior's work deliberately moves on the line between art and education.
www.liorshneior.com
www.berlinmoves.com
Mgr. Karin Korčáková
Karin is a teacher in the Montessori program at the Na Beránku elementary school in Prague 12 – coordinator of the 1st three-year program.
"In her words, Karin never dreamed of teaching, so she has a high school diploma in analytical chemistry and experience in various companies related to chemistry or business. It was not until the birth of her own children that she began to reflect on education, on unequal relationships between teachers and pupils, on preparation for life in a changing society... and it's no wonder that Maria Montessori's philosophy of education appealed to her.
She completed a diploma course in Montessori pedagogy and was gradually drawn into this world, first as a co-lecturer in a children's group, later as an assistant in a Montessori class at the Na Beránku elementary school. There she finally started her career as a teacher. She studied special pedagogy remotely at the Jan Amos Comenius University and at the Catholic University in Ružomberok. In the end, she landed at the school in the first three-year program, where she has been teaching since 2010."
She completed many courses on the topic of Montessori education, and she also worked as an accompanying teacher in the Live Teacher program or in the Creative Partnership for Equal Opportunities project – School for the Future (https://www.erudio-montessori.cz/kopie-z-petra-miticka/).
Communication between teacher and child is closely related to education. She completed the first course on the partnership approach in education and training in the now notorious Respect and Be Respected approach by psychologist PhDr. Jana Nováčková. Jiřina Majerová's MBTI courses are among the most important, where she learned that the behaviour and thinking of people of different personality types can be better understood thanks to typology. She acquired additional skills in leading children towards responsibility and independence and working with their own emotions in Michal Dubec's courses.