Charlie Karlín, z.ú.

Charlie Karlín (established in 2015) is the non-profit organisation aims to help and support disadvantaged learners and underachievers to develop their intellectual capacity, to complete their mandatory education and to assist them on going through higher education, to enable them to cultivate their own independent and authentic personality. This help and support is mainly based on using the mediated learning experience and instrumental enrichment methods in and out of the classroom. The main focus is paid to those experiencing failure during their formal education due to factors such as the socio-economic situation they live in, lack of stimuli in their natural environment, lack of suitable approach in the classroom teaching, etc. \\Working with the wide range of clientele – children, youngsters, adults and also elderly people- mediators of Charlie Karlín gained significant experience of enhancing potential of learners and helping them on their pathway to higher quality life. All the effort is put into integrating children into mainstream schools, if possible. To support this aim wider promotion of the methodology and teacher support is needed. Charlie Karlín co-founded the Feuerstein Authorized Training Center, based in Prague, where certified teacher training in mediation takes place. The expertise of Charlie Karlín is enriched by working with talented children and creating suitable environment for them to experience their own metacognition. Mediators of Charlie Karlín work with their clients in the classroom environment as well as individually or in small groups but always with the goal to develop their cognitive potential and enable them to achieve better results in the school and thus to provide them with the initial conditions for better jobs and higher life quality.\\www.charliekarlin.cz