Educational Evolutionary Transformation: the European Projects Team at the Regional Directorate for Primary & Secondary Education in Western Greece Niki Lampropoulou, Anastasia Diamantopoulou, Giorgos Panagiotopoulos, Marie Kotadaki, Charikleia Pitsou, Greek Ministry of Education, Greece
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
• Head of the Directorate since January 2010 is Dr. Giorgos Panagiotopoulos:
– Evolutionary transformation rather than mere evolution of existing practices is to reinforce the educational process
– Transformational strategies can meet a radically altered external educational environment which impacts the future of the students in schools in Western Greece
The Regional Directorate of Primary and Secondary Education in Western Greece (PDEDE)
1. Change of perceptions, attitudes, perspectives for formal / informal education
2. Peer-to-Peer Cooperation (Teachers & Students) 3. Extroversion than passive observation4. Open space for good practices5. New methodological approaches6. Peer-to-peer learning / training
Evolutionary Educational Transformation
7. Voluntary participation in self-evaluation, experiential courses & in-service training
Greek teachers voluntarily prepared themselves for their participation in projects because of the: • Importance / necessity of underpinned educational principles• Formal and informal learning• Safe environment open to experimentation• New and creative solutions for alternative ways of learning
• September 2011: – 19 new projects (Mrs Tasoula & Mr Rizopoulos) – Euroscola: 27 schools, 307 students– PDEDE participation in 2 LLP, 2 FP7 project proposals for 2012
• Previous Academic Year – Preparatory Visits: 6– Total LLP Projects: 44– Total number of schools: 29 – One participation in Regio– In-service training: 8– Total students’ mobility in the EU: 500– Total teachers’ mobility in the EU : 93– PDEDE participation in 3 LLP projects
• Portal creation and development • Digital CoP creation and development
– GSN 83, Facebook 46, Slideshare average views: 500 for each ppt /pdf
EU-PDEDE via European Projects• Facilitates, supports and directs their implementation • Disseminates the results and best practices impacting the teachers’ views, attitudes, perspectives, ideas and everyday educational practices