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The main objective of this course is for postgraduate students to explore teaching processes by functioning successively and reflectively both as learners and as educators within real pedagogical contexts.
Specifically, the course aims to bring trainees into direct contact with teaching practices in representative institutions of education, art, and culture. Through exposure to various issues and challenges, it seeks to enhance their teaching skills, thereby improving their instructional fluency and technique.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will:
- Be able to recognize and identify teaching skills (e.g., questioning, student reinforcement, etc.).
- Be familiar with various participatory teaching techniques (e.g., brainstorming, case study, concept mapping, simulation, etc.) that promote active participation, and be able to apply them in their teaching.
- Understand that different alternative actions and processes can lead to effective teaching.
- Improve their teaching fluency by observing the teaching activities of their peers and discussing various instructional issues with them.
- Examine their work independently and/or collaboratively in an international and interdisciplinary environment to generate new research ideas, design, and manage projects.
- Engage in reflective practice, which contributes to the self-assessment of their personal learning.
General Competences
- Search, analysis, and synthesis of data and information using the necessary technologies.
- In-depth understanding of the application of differentiated pedagogy principles and Universal Design for Learning.
- Familiarization with Experiential and Inquiry-Based Learning through the use of primary sources (conducting research, field study, etc.).
- Development of initiatives.
- Decision-making.
- Exercise of critical and self-critical thinking.
- Independent work.
COURSE CONTENT
- Design of the practicum
- Teaching models
- Planning: implementing institutions, schedule
- Evaluation criteria
- Experiential activity / observation of teaching sessions, innovative programs, and good practices at the practicum placement institution
- Theoretical support / Lecture – Seminar
- Intercultural education in Greek schools for students from socially vulnerable backgrounds
- Feedback stage
- Reflection – Redesign
- Experiential activity / observation of teaching sessions, innovative programs, and good practices at the practicum placement institution
- Theoretical support / Lecture – Seminar
- The contemporary Greek educational system: support structures within public schools and their role in improving the quality of life of students with reduced functionality
- Feedback stage
- Reflection – Redesign
- Experiential activity / observation of teaching sessions, innovative programs, and good practices at the practicum placement institution
- Theoretical support / Lecture – Seminar
- School Integration Class: differentiated instruction for gifted students with learning difficulties
- Reflection & Evaluation