Our teachers

English Skills Development, History and Geography teacher

Mark graduated from the University of Toronto in 1996 with a BA in History and the Humanities. He travelled to the Czech Republic in 2003 on a backpacking trip with his wife Kavita and they liked it so much that they haven’t left. Mark has taught English, History and Geography in Czech state schools since 2005. First, in South Bohemia where he lived until 2013 and most recently at PORG Liben. He is the proud father of two lovely girls.

English language teacher, native speaker

Keith graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast and went travelling. While living in China he taught language and cultural relations at a university for teachers. It was here he discovered his love of teaching. He moved to Prague in 2005 and has been teaching English as a foreign language here since then. He spent a lot of his teaching life in the British Council and Jan Kepler Grammar School and thoroughly enjoys interacting with school children of all ages. He spends his free time with his children, as well as running and playing football and rugby.

English language teacher

Born in Prague, Eliška grew up in an international community and is, therefore, a huge fan of bilingual education. She has experienced the British system first-hand both as a student and an educator and has joined the Duhovka team after seven years of working at the Prague British School. Apart from English and social sciences, she has also studied methodology of teaching dance and led a variety of courses for children as well as adults. Physical activity and theatre are definitely Eliška's lifelong interests – besides dance, she loves all kinds of martial arts, acrobatics, street workout or skydiving and stunt work. And despite giving the impression that she won't sit still, she can be very happy at a poker table or playing board games.

English language and esthetic education of music teacher, native speaker

Tyler graduated from The University of California Santa Cruz in 2010 with a degree in music.  He moved to Prague in 2013 and fell in love with the cultural atmosphere of the city.  He has played in jazz, blues, and rock bands, as well as given performances on classical guitar.  He enjoys attending concerts at Rudolfinum and writing his own music.  When not playing music, Tyler can be found reading classic novels, skateboarding, or downhill mountain biking.  He combines his passion for literature and music an English teacher and music teacher at Duhovka.

English Language Teacher, Film Teacher, Drama Teacher

Brian Joseph Callaghan studied Classical Literature and Theater at Saint Joseph's College, New York. He has completed a three-year Montessori Teaching Program in Prague, and in 2021, he completed stage 1 of IB Drama. When not teaching, Brian writes and performs stand-up comedy and is the Artistic Director of the Prague-based theater troupe, the Prague Harman Street Players.

Mathematics, Physics and Informatics teacher

2A's form teacher

Martina graduated at the pedagogical faculty of Univerzity in Hradec Králové, specialization in Mathematics and Physics.  She has been teaching Mathematics and Physics, IT at the 2^nd grade at a elementary school in Mladá Boleslav since she finished the University.  She has visited the European School in Lucemburk to get some new experience and she has attended Science teaching course. She is a volleyball coach and she likes flying, archery, reading books and she loves lots of kinds of sports.

Deputy director for middle school, pastoral care

Geography and biology teacher, 4A's form teacher

Alena graduated in biology and geography from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. In her free time, she enjoys traveling and exploring new places, practicing yoga, watching movies and doing graphic design.

Otto has 10+ years experience teaching English Language and Literature. He has a Master of Education, a Bachelor of Arts in Literature, and is licensed from the State of Oregon since 2007. He's taught English Language and Literature, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate in the US, Germany, Kuwait, and now Czech Republic.

Jan comes from Jesenice near Prague, from a family of teachers. When he was a child, he fell in love with hiking and since then he admires nature. He graduated from Jan Patočka High School in the center of Prague. The school focuses on philosophy and love of philosophy has been accompanying Jan throughout his whole life. His desire to combine philosophy and nature brought him to Palacký University in Olomouc where he studied Earth Sciences with focus on paleontology at the Faculty of Science. Nature and further education became his hobbies. He is also fond of adventures and that is why he has been paddling since he was a child. With his club, he has visited rivers in France, Austria, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Croatia. He likes to read, write short stories, play games, and watch films and TV series.

Even though she was born half a century ago about 5,000 km far from Prague, she feels at home in the Czech Republic for many years. From an early age she went to school studying majority of humanities in English. After graduating, she was studying History at the University of Minsk for three years, and then she graduated in History from the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. Later she graduated in English Language Teaching from University of Pardubice. She has more than twenty years ́ experience in teaching English at high school (gymnázium), at the College, at the economic fields at Czech Technical University, in various courses for children and adults as well as the students with special educational needs. Methodological courses at universities in England helped her gain insight in the subject of ELT, friends from different countries and much more teaching experience. In addition, besides she is keen on travelling (she has already been to various locations in 18 countries in the world), she fancies another special hobby which also became her profession for several successful years - she is able to design projects and bring them to life as a Grant Specialist.

Ondřej graduated from the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, with a degree in Czech and Spanish. He also has a long-term interest in Czech as a foreign language. At our school, he teachers Czech and Spanish and is in charge of the library.

Having completed his studies of Chemical Physics and Biophysics and Teaching Chemistry and Physics, Martin is now a PhD student of Didactics of Physics and Chemistry. He used to teach in tandem within the Depositum Bonum Foundation by the Ceska sporitelna. Currently, he is a specialist on teaching science at the Czech School Inspectorate. He works on developing a quality curriculum for sciences within the Elixir for Schools project. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the RSJ Foundation and a member of the society for talent, STaN. At the Evolution Sazavska high school, he is developing a new concept of teaching integrated sciences called SCIENCE. Martin is a passionate traveler and adventurer. He likes technical and didactic books and adores planes, food and nature.

Ondřej grafuated from the Faculty of Education at the South Bohemian University in České Budějovice in the study programme Czech Language and History for Secondary Education. Between the years 2007 – 2014, he worked as a teacher at Gymnázium Příbram. In his free time, he likes sports, travelling, reading and going to the cinema or theatre.

Ondřej studied PE and Sports at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, and specialized in coaching. At the same university, he also got a bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy and a doctoral degree. Outside of school, he is coaches of top athletes and introduces individual training into team sports. In his free time, he does sports and improves his own training. When he is not doing sports, he likes to read a good book or travel around the Czech Republic or abroad.

She graduated from Faculties of Arts of Universities in Ostrava and Brno. Doctor’s degree in history of education she defended successfully at the Faculty of Art of the Charles University. She worked in the National museum of education of J.A. Komensky and she also taught at a primary school for several years. She teaches Czech language and history at Gymnasium Duhovka, she is a class teacher at the same time.

Tomas graduated from the University of Economics in Prague, discipline International economic relations, and now he studies the Education of economical subjects. In 2013 he completed a diploma Montessori course for children from 12 to 16 years (Sekundarstufenkurs) at the Institute of holistic learning in Tegernsee and Potsdam in Germany. At Gymnasium Duhovka he teaches German language, financial literacy and economics, he manages the school websites and he is a class teacher.

Radka comes from Vysočina but she spent her university years in Pilsen. Here she studied two programs: geography and social sciences pedagogy, and Middle East studies. During her studies she taught English and worked as an editor for an educational website. After completing her degrees she moved to Prague to fully focus on her dream – to be a teacher. She is interested in involving technology and effective use of tablets in class. She passes this knowledge on to other teachers at seminars of Masaryk University. Radka enjoys travelling and she spends her free time by playing the viola in the Prague Film Orchestra.

Lenka graduated from the Faculty of Education of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, disciplines Czech language and Music. At gymnasium Duhovka she teaches Czech language and literature, art and education for life. In 2012 she completed a course the AMI Montessori Orientation to Adolescent Studies in Ohio and she became a certified Montessori teacher for students from 12 to 18 years.

Michala graduated from the Faculty of Science, Charles University, Teaching Chemistry and Biology, where she also got her PhD. She became interested in Montessori pedagogy when her son was born. In her free time, she organizes group sports lessons and likes to go on field trips around the Czech Republic as well as abroad with her family.

Zuzana graduated from the Faculty of Science of the Charles University, discipline Teaching of mathematics and biology. In summer 2012 she completed the course AMI Montessori Orientation to Adolescent Studies in Ohio. 

Adam's career in education started when he was six, when his younger brother was born, and later on it was academically climaxed by Master's degree at Charles University in Prague. Adam's hobbies are sport, cooking, mushroom-picking with his dog, reading and igniting sparks of critical thinking.

Peter graduated from the Faculty of Education at University of South Bohemia and taught at secondary schools for five years (ZŠ Propojení Sedlčany a Open Gate Boarding School). He spent four years in a non-profit organization AISIS where I coordinated teachers training projects including a Czech version of thee international programme Facing History and Ourselves. In 2008 Peter started his career as a freelancer and he cooperated as a trainer with several organizations such as The Terezín Initiative Institute, Jewish museum in Prague and The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes.

Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Matthew fell in love with the Czech Republic as a teen on his first trip to Europe. Since 2001 he has called Prague home. He holds two master’s degrees and has done postgraduate studies at Trinity College Dublin. In his teaching career he has taught a wide range of students from different cultures from across the world and he is an enthusiastic traveler. In his free time he enjoys hiking, cycling, reading and playing guitar.  

She is the graduate of the secondary Václav Hollar Art School and of the master study programme of the Academy of Performing Arts at the Theatre Faculty in Prague with focus on stage design in alternative and puppet theatre. She regularly cooperates with an independent theatre group Letí and she is the author of two puppet theatre fairy tales. She loves various art techniques, her specialty being turning wood. She became involved in working with children through the interactive festival Vyšehrátky and assistance in the registered association Máme otevřeno? She also continued to study and further her teaching qualifications for upper elementary and secondary school and now at Duhovka High School she is delighted to be teaching Art and Art History.

Jiří graduated from a high science school in Pardubice and than from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University in Prague, discipline Teaching. He gained a great experience while teaching at a primary school. He has been working as a mathematics teacher at our gymnasium for many years. He likes to pass his time with students not only at school, but also during various sport and culture events, project excursions, and trips and so on. Beside his family his most favorite hobbies are sports, playing the guitar, visiting the theatres and traveling.

Magdaléna studied Spanish philology at the Faculty of Arts of the Masaryk University in Brno. She continued her studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague with the Iberoamerican program. After completing university she worked for four years as a teacher of Spanish at a basic school. She later extended her teaching qualification to secondary schools as well. Now she is attending the Montessori course for ages 12-18. She devotes her free time to Spanish and Latin American literature, photography, theater, music and travelling.

Eva is the graduate of the master study programme with focus on Physical Education and Psychology at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University, where she also pursued her doctoral studies. She undertook an internship in Greece while a student, a teaching internship in Portugal, and a postgraduate internship in Canada. In her spare time she is very active with a wide variety in sports and she also serves as a youth athletic trainer.

Daniel Werling has a Masters degree in International Business from San Diego State University and a Masters in Education from Angelo State University in Texas.  Daniel and his wife met in Argentina and continued their love for traveling until it brought them to Shanghai, China where they lived and taught for over five years.  He and his wife moved to Prague two years ago where he has taught Economics, Geography, and Sciences and his wife is a kindergarten teacher at Lycee Francias de Prague.  They are expecting their first child in November, a baby girl.

Timothy Wilson earned his bachelors degree in English Literature and Classical Languages from the University of Alabama in 1999. He has also earned a Juris Doctorate and a Masters in Library Science. He taught high school Latin and English Language Arts for 4 years in America before becoming alternately a lawyer, a librarian and a web developer. Before coming to Duhovka he worked with the United States Peace Corps teaching English as a Foreign Language at university in western Ukraine. Among other things, he loves fitness, reading books about philosophy and science, and exploring the beautiful city of Prague on foot. But he does not like fishing.