This diploma thesis studies teaching of computer hardware with it's main goal set in evaluation of the topic's benefit in curriculum of grammar schools. Key aspects of evaluation are relation of topic to the rest of ICT curriculum and other school subjects, background in relevant curricular documents of Czech republic, students' attitude and expectations in regard of the topic determined by survey and comparison of schools' curriculum to topic's structure in literature. Main outcomes are determination of actual form of teaching computer hardware at grammar schools and recommending way of further development thereof regarding students' needs and motivation and variability of teaching methods available. Keywords ICT, Computer hardware, curriculum, teaching methods, curricular documents, pupil's attitude, motivation

This diploma thesis deals with the topic of phylum cnidaria as it is being taught in biology classes at primary schools and grammar schools. This work is divided into three parts. The first part deals the position of the topic of phylum cnidaria among curricular documents. It states its classification in the Czech Framework education programme (for Elementary Education) and some chosen School Education Programme. Furthermore, this part analyses the topic as it is written in biology class books, with the clause by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic. Representatives of phylum cnidaria that are mentioned in biology class books are characterised more thoroughly within the scope of the analysis. The second part of the thesis deals with the teaching methods and forms that are used in teaching biology the most frequently and the questionnaire research that tells us which forms and methods are being used the most by teachers to teach about phylum cnidaria and what specific activities they employ in class. The last part of the thesis consists of suggestions for practical activities for teaching the topic of phylum cnidarian inspired by the results of the survey and a description of educational excursion to the World of Jellyfish aquarium with 6th grade pupils. KEYWORDS phylum...

This diploma thesis is focuses on management in private and public kindergarten. The aim of the thesis is find out specifics of management in two different preschool institutions. Diploma thesis is consisting of theoretical and practical parts. First part of theoretical thesis inform about public and private sector briefly. The main topic of theoretical part is describing different functions of management, which are important for the functioning of the school. It includes the areas of school management, school funding, but also personnel management. Furthermore, it is also focuses on the legislative conditions, curricular documents and qualifications of leaders in pre primary institutions include their rights, obligations and competences. The end of the theoretical part is describing cooperation with the founders and parents, which is one of the most important factors affecting the quality of kindergarten. Practical part of diploma thesis contains two case studies of two preschool institutions. These institutions are similar in their size, number of classes, capacity of children and number of employees, but they are different in their founders. This part follows specifics of management and finding out about common and different points in these institutions. The end of the practical part is...

Messages delivered by the media are often used as a source of authentic texts in language teaching, yet there is not a sufficient amount of works dealing with the connection between media education and language teaching. The theoretical part of this thesis, therefore, tries to describe this relationship from the perspective of media studies, linguistics and language teaching methodology. The aim of this work is to create teaching materials incorporating media education into teaching English as a foreign language. The materials consist of worksheets for students and methodological support for teachers. Key words media education, language teaching, authentic text, context, curricular documents, teaching materials, worksheets, methodological support

This diploma thesis deals with problematics of sexual education at primary schools. Its aim is to make an overview of the problematics concerning two chosen primary schools, find out about their attitude towards this field and try to analyse real needs of pupils attending them. This diploma thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The theoretical part deals with a term of sexual education and its importance in modern society. Other chapters emphasize sexual education in families, at schools and their participation in curricular documents. The practical part deals with a research of real conditions of sexual education at two already chosen primary schools and it tries to find out about these schools' attitudes towards the problematics. It also tries to find out about real needs of pupils in this area and about their knowledge of sexual education not only from their school's point of view, but also that of their families.

The topic of my thesis is the issue of sex education in primary school. The main objective of this work is to analyze the curricular documents specified for Czech Education and especially to analyze the literature that could be helpful elementary school teachers to teach sex education. The thesis consists of two parts ? theoretical part and research. In the first chapter of the theoretical part I am dealing with the question of why sex education is important. Then I continue with sub-chapters dedicated to general definitions and principles of sex education. The second chapter is devoted to the National Programme of Development of Education or the ?Bílá kniha? and to how sex education is stipulated in this curricular document. In the second practical part of this thesis I am dealing with the analysis of another curricular document - Framework Education Programme (for Elementary Education) and its updates for 2013 from the perspective of sex education. Primary analysis of literature which is available from online catalogs forms another point in the research. The last point is the analysis of six selected titles from the perspective of their didactic facilities and subsequent evaluation.

The aim of this diploma thesis, which is entitled "Media education in Czech lessons in secondary schools", is to map out the current state of integration of a cross-sectional theme named Media Education into the Czech lessons of all kinds of high schools in the Czech Republic. The educational process is seen from the perspectives of all its participants. The thesis should bring the list of excerpted scientific texts and research dealing with the object of our interest. And it also aims to describe the interfaces of both educational subjects which emerge from the requirements for the students. The research part is aimed at providing the informations about the particular signs of media education in the obligatory school subject of Czech lessons as well as the success of this effort to increase media literacy by the high school students. This information should be collected by a content analyses of school curricular documents, interviews and questionnaires of both sides of the educational process.The work also brings an analyses of teaching materials represented by Czech lesson textbooks, which are evaluated according to the integration of our cross-sectional theme and its possibilities. The output of this thesis is the suggestion of our own didactic instrument, the didactic test.

Digital literacy is one of key competencies for lifelong learning. Although implementing multimedia (i.e. ICT) into the educational process has a global perspective, the curricular documents for compulsory school attendance in the Czech Republic (Rámcový vzdělávací program), Slovak Republic (Štátny vzdelávací program) and Germany (Bildungsstandards) do not emphasize this need. A review of the above mentioned documents indicated, that the general need to develop digital literacy of pupils across all school subjects is not formulated by these documents. Therefore, the personal opinions and beliefs of the teachers, their enthusiasm to use ICT, their level of computer literacy, school facilities and the approach of pupils to ICT, play the most important role with regard to the implementation of multimedia in the educational process. Accordingly, the combined research conducted by questionnaires and structured interviews, is aimed towards beliefs, opinions and experiences of pre-service and in-service teachers of biology and primary school pupils from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany. The research has involved 422 Czech, 205 Slovak and 136 German in-service biology teachers and 222 Czech, 100 Slovak and 84 German pre-service teachers. The questionnaires were also addressed to 442 Czech pupils...