Teachers working together during the camp

Camp for Teachers

Experience the new role of a teacher first-hand.

For three days, leave the role of the person who knows the answer. Join a team, tackle a real problem and experience what it means to create room for initiative, responsibility and learning through action.

Experience first

Describing the new role of a teacher is not enough

It is difficult to give students more responsibility without experiencing that situation yourself. The camp lets teachers encounter uncertainty, teamwork and real feedback from the learner’s side.

In three days, you turn a topic into a small project, meet people outside the classroom and test a first solution. Reflection then connects the experience back to your own teaching.

3 days of first-hand experience
10–20 teachers in one cohort
3–4 teams of about five
0 lectures detached from practice

Who it is for

For teachers who want to give students more room to act

For educators who do not want students merely to reproduce correct answers, but to notice problems, work with others and take responsibility for a result.

Teaching

When explanation is no longer enough

For teachers looking for ways to connect learning with action, experience and the world outside school.

Role

When you want to guide without controlling

Try how to set boundaries, ask useful questions and support a team without taking its responsibility away.

School

When change needs a shared experience

For staff teams that need more than a methodological presentation to begin changing everyday teaching.

Why now

The world we teach for is changing faster than teaching

AI can generate answers in seconds. Education therefore needs to develop the ability to ask, judge, collaborate and act in situations without a ready-made procedure.

40% of skills According to the World Economic Forum, almost 40% of job skills will change by 2030. Students need more than knowledge: they need experience using it in a changing world.

Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025.

Answers

A correct answer is only the beginning

Students also need to recognise which question matters and what their answer changes for another person.

Responsibility

Independence cannot be assigned

It grows when students can make real decisions, see their impact and learn from feedback.

Teacher

The role changes from expert to guide

The teacher still brings expertise, but also creates an environment in which students can safely act before everything is clear.

How it works

Three days as both participant and teacher

Each day advances the project and opens a different question about teaching, responsibility and learning.

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3
Day 1

Day 1 — experience

Topics and teams

Choose topics that matter, form new teams and notice what happens when no one assigns roles in advance.

Day 2

Day 2 — reality

Through another person’s eyes

Meet people, test assumptions and experience how direct feedback changes both the project and the team.

Day 3

Day 3 — transfer

Solution and reflection

Create a simple solution, reflect on the experience and identify what you want to change in your teaching.

What you take away

Experience you can use to reshape your teaching

Instead of a universal method, you leave with a reference experience that helps you decide where to give students more room and where they still need support.

Perspective

The learner’s side

Recall what uncertainty, unclear roles and real responsibility feel like when you are the participant.

Practice

Concrete facilitation moves

Try questions, boundaries and reflection techniques that support learning without taking over the work.

Next step

A change you can test

Translate the experience into one realistic experiment in your own class or school.

Who leads the camp

Entrepreneurship, education, technology and working with people

Tomáš Vavrda and Taťána Beránková Císařová connect entrepreneurship and technology with years of guiding students and teachers through experiential learning.

Tomáš Vavrda

Entrepreneurship and technology

Tomáš Vavrda

Founder of Adaptivio and ORIGAM, with experience from more than 150 projects and six years of guiding student teams.

Taťána Beránková Císařová

Education and working with people

Taťána Beránková Císařová

Educator, innovator and economics teacher who helps teachers step into a new role and students develop entrepreneurship.

Practical details

A camp for a school staff or a group of teachers

We tailor the context to your school while preserving the experience itself. Participants work in teams, meet reality outside the classroom and reflect together.

Participants

A staff team or mixed group

The camp works for one school as well as teachers from different schools and subjects.

Preparation

No finished project required

Participants bring topics they care about. The problem and project emerge during the camp.

Output

Experience

The purpose is not to evaluate teachers but to create a shared basis for changing practice.

Afterwards

Transfer into teaching

A follow-up reflection helps turn insight into a concrete classroom or school experiment.

We cannot explain the new role of a teacher. You need to experience it first.

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