The team members of Erasmus+ Action1/KA1, School Education sector, entitled “The European innovation as a training subject for the Greek education staff” of the Evangeliki Model School of Smyrna publish here the training material, teaching tools, presentations, photographs and videos for the information of the European educational community about the seminars we attended. Through this webpage, we aim at promoting the role and the added value of professional development of the European KA1 mobility projects.
The online poll for the selection of our project logo closed last night and today we have the winner of our logo contest that will accompany and will represent us throughout our project: It is the Spanish logo! A marble carrying the flags of the countries of the 4 partner schools!
We are attaching the winning logo and the poll results.
?Peer observation and peer evaluation in the introduction of a cognitive and methodological innovation in the B? Class Modern Greek Language subject in a Model High School? is the title of the presentation made by the Greek Language and Literature teacher Kalypso N. Lazou-Balta in the 4th Panhellenic Conference entitled ?Education in the 21st century: Education & Culture?, organised on 10-12 May 2019 in Athens College by the aforementioned college in collaboration with the Museum of School Life and Education and the Hellenic Educational Society.
The presentation analyses the content of an one-session teaching of Modern Greek in B? Class, which the teacher offered to the school teachers for peer observation and mentions the comments of the other teachers, who evaluated the educational innovation (methodological and cognitive), which emerge from the statistical processing of the peer observation form handed out to them.
The peer observation activity was organised within the framework of the dissemination of Ms. Lazou-Balta?s training in Finland and Estonia, in April 2018, during her participation in an Erasmus+ KA1 project.
The teaching scenario was based on an autobiographical note, of the chapter on Kinds of Biography (pp.91-103 of the Modern Greek Language school book). The teaching aimed at the completion of the autobiographical note by the B1 Class students of Evangeliki Model High School of Smyrna, with the use of individual consultancy tools. Role-play and collaboration were applied with the involvement of the peer observing teachers in the student teams. The teachers played the role of the ?important others? in their students? lives. An experiential workshop was created, in which every Consulting Student used the ?Questionnaire of Personal Beliefs for the Exploration of Professional Perspectives? that was completed by three ?Important Others?, i.e. three persons that highly influence his development and the formation of his personality. These three persons are a friend, a teacher of his choice and a parent, played by a classmate. The Consulting Student then evaluated the validity of the answers he received and incorporated the ones he accepted as real in his autobiographical note, which he composed according to the European autobiographical note template (Europass).
The in-school peer observation form was designed by the Pedagogy Sector of the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology of the School of Philosophy of the NKUA and was implemented in the peer evaluation realised by the Model and Experimental Schools in 2014. The no.7 question was added by the school mathematicians Sotirios D. Chasapis and Alkiviadis G. Tzelepis, when they were observed themselves. These colleagues made use of the same form in the Algebra Laboratory that has been running in the school for the eighth school year now, as well as in the peer observation they organised for the dissemination of the training where they participated during the Erasmus+ KA1 project entitled ?The European innovation as a training subject of the Greek education staff?, in which the school teachers participated during the school year 2017-2018.
The school teachers who participated in the Erasmus+ KA1 project entitled “The European innovation as a training subject for the Greek teaching staff” presented the project and its learning outcomes in the Best Practices Dissemination Event of Evangeli Model School of Smyrna in the form of a poster. The event, which was open to the public, was held in the school premises on Sunday 7/10/2018, at 17:00-20:00. We attach the poster in the Greek language.
The Greek language teacher Ms. Kalypso Lazou-Balta of Evangeliki Model School of Smyrna attended the in-service training seminar entitled «Education in Finland – Best Practices Benchmarking in schools» in Helsinki, Finland, and in Tallinn, Estonia, from 15 until 21 April 2018. The course was offered by «Euneos Corporation». For the application and dissemination of the acquired knowledge, she has realized the following activities:
ΤΕΛΙΚΟ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ 4ου ΔΙΕΘΝΟΥΣ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟΥ ΕΕΠΕΚ
The presentation paper was published in Greek in the conference proceedings (Lazou-Balta, K. & Paparoidami, Ε. (13 October 2018). Presentation entitled “The school as an Organisation and Community of Learning: the role of the leadership” in the 4th International Conference for the Promotion of Educational Innovation, Larissa, Greece, 12-14 October 2018, Vol. Β?, pp. 463-471).
On Monday, 14 May 2018, between 13:15 and 14:15, the team members of the Erasmus+ Action1/KA1, School Education sector, entitled «The European innovation as a training subject for the Greek education staff» for the year 2017 informed their colleagues about the content of the seminars they attended in other European countries.
The project participants, Ms. Argyri Panagiota, Mrs. Arnaouti Eirini, Mr. Tzelepis Alkiviadis, Mr. Chasapis Sotirios and Ms. Lazou-Balta Kalypso trained their colleagues about subjects of educational innovation, acting in this way as multipiers of the acquired knowledge of the semimars they attended.
The speakers’ presentations in the Greek language follow:
The maths teacher Ms. Panagiota Argyri and the English teacher Mrs. Eirini Arnaouti of Evangeliki Model School of Smyrna attended the in-service training seminar entitled “Theory and Practice of Serious Games & Gamification” in Helsinki, Finland, and in Tallinn, Estonia, from 22 until 28 April 2018. The course was offered by “Euneos Corporation”. For the application and dissemination of the acquired knowledge, they have realized the following activities:
1. Ms. Panagiota Argyri, by applying the seminar teaching principles, designed a lesson about the use of Triseum Variant Limits digital educational game for the lesson of mathematics in the B’ Class of the High School and she conducted it in a group of B’ class students of the school on 11 May 2018. The lesson was attended by other maths teachers of our school. The lesson plan follows: Teaching Mathematics via Educational Games
She also designed lessons on the use of «Triseum: Variant Limits» computer game in the teaching of mathematics. These teaching scenarios are posted on the Future Classroom Lab portal:
Triseum games ? reaching the infinite:
http://fcl.eun.org/directory/details?contentId=1212
http://storage.eun.org/?/TriseumPilot-VariantLimitsFCS-Pana?
Law of Limits:
http://fcl.eun.org/directory/details?contentId=1213
http://storage.eun.org/?/TriseumPilot-VariantLimitsFCS-Pana?
Approaching the concept of Limits of Functions:
http://fcl.eun.org/directory/details?contentId=1214
http://storage.eun.org/?/TriseumPilot-VariantLimitsFCS-Pana?
She then presented these teaching scenarios, along with the conclusions from their implementation, in a training seminar organized by the European Schoolnet on 12 September 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. You can see here the training seminar programme and Ms. Argyri’s presentation.
ExpertSeminar_SeriousGamesEducationalSector _1209_agenda_3.pdf
This training seminar was followed by a Tweet Chat entitled “Educational games development: what challenges and perspectives?” on the 19th September 2018 at 17:00 (CET). You can find attached screen shots of the chat refering to the afore mentioned teaching scenarios and to the relevant in-service training seminar she attended within the framework of this Erasmus+KA1 project.
2. Mrs. Eirini Arnaouti, by applying the seminar teaching principles, designed and implemented, in collaboration with the school Chemistry teacher Mrs. Chrysi Aggelidou, a creative cross-curricular project entitled ?Creation of Taboo Board Game about Biochemistry themes in the English Language?, which was realised by a group of the B? Class of Evangeliki Model High School of Smyrna during April-May 2018. The last lesson, which consisted of the project presentation, was attended by teachers and students of our school on 22 May 2018. The project plan follows in the Greek language: Παιγνιώδης μάθηση - ετεροπαρατήρηση
3. Mrs. Eirini Arnaouti, in collaboration with Mrs. Chrysi Aggelidou, realized a cross-curricular project entitled “Creation of Board Games about Biochemistry themes in the English Language” in the framework of the subjects of “Biology” and “English” in the B’ Class in Evangeliki Model High School of Smyrna during the spring semester of the school year 2017-2018. You can see the students’ creations of the Creative and Cross-curricular projects here.
4. Ms. Panagiota Argyri and Mrs. Eirini Arnaouti, in collaboration with teachers from other European countries that participated in this seminar, made a post with a video regarding the importance of their training on the STEM Discovery Week 2018 blog. The post and the video can be visited on the following addresses: http://sdw-blog.eun.org/2018/04/28/training-courses-ka1-for-professional-develpment/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?ist=PLtA54levDap3DZT8rTksVoYzqXsldHIhu A relevant post was also made on the European Schoolnet facebook account:https://www.facebook.com/european.schoolnet/videos/1636287353133468
5. Ms. Panagiota Argyri made posts on the STEM Discovery Week 2018 blog regarding this training seminar before leaving (see here) and after returning and implementing game-based learning in her teaching practice (see here). Furthermore, she realised two relevant webinars; the first one entitled “It?s a game changer!” on Scientix portal (see here) and the second one entitled “Game-based learning in the classroom research: validating Variant: Limits?” on Future Classroom Lab portal.
6. Mrs. Eirini Arnaouti, in collaboration with Mrs. Chrysi Aggelidou, ex-Chemistry teacher of our school, made a presentation entitled “Creation of Board Games with Biochemistry themes in the English Language” about the implementation of game-based learning principles in the 4th International Conference for the Promotion of Educational Innovation, held in Larissa, Greece, on 12-14 October 2018. You can find attached the conference programme and the presentation PowerPoint in Greek.
ΤΕΛΙΚΟ ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ 4ου ΔΙΕΘΝΟΥΣ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟΥ ΕΕΠΕΚ
Παρουσίαση Χ.Αγγελίδου-Ε.Αρναούτη
The presentation paper was published in Greek in the conference proceedings (Aggelidou, C. & Arnaouti, Ε. (13 October 2018). Presentation entitled ?Making Board Games on Biochemistry in the English Language? in the 4th International Conference for the Promotion of Educational Innovation, Larissa, Greece, 12-14 October 2018, Vol. D?, pp. 32-36).
The maths teachers of the Evangeliki Model School of Smyrna Mr. Sotirios Chasapis and Mr. Alkiviadis Tzelepis attended the in-service training seminar entitled ?Peer Coaching and Mentoring? in Marbella, Spain, from 6 until 10 November 2017. The training was realized by ?ΕuroKey Community?. For the application and dissemination of the acquired knowledge the following events were organized:
