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Description of the greek module:

"Increasing reading literacy - Developing different motivational skills to acquire or improve the skill Reading"


Read literacy is the foundation of all human education. Deficiencies that students have in this area can also be seen in the context of the phenomenon of early school leaving. In this sense, it is understandable that the promotion of this skill should be a permanent goal of any school education.
Our goal is to develop various motivational techniques for acquiring or improving the multi-faceted "reading" skill at school. We want to give our students the opportunity to engage creatively with the most diverse types of text and thematic areas, which of course requires their reading and understanding. This reading-motivational approach aims to reduce students' fear of writing, thus narrowing the gap between the student reader and the texts he has to deal with on a daily basis, thereby counteracting the phenomenon of dropping out of school.

Presentation of the greek module

Continuity of the module and of the project in the 62nd Junior High School of Athens

At our school, appropriate schooling activities follow both our module and the other modules of the project. This is demonstrated here with some examples of such activities.

 

Continue the module

The use of alternative, motivating rapprochement methods of texts to increase reading literacy will continue in different ways at the 62nd Gymnasium of Athens. For example, regular events and workshops are organized with writers whose texts or books have already been or will be treated by the pupils in class. Further projects are being carried out for this purpose.

In the school year 2016/2017 haiku poetry was introduced to promote creative writing in the Greek lessons of a 3rd grade of our high school. The students were initiated into this poetry form, and soon they were able to present their own verses to the class and then to the school. From the work of the students, a book of poems was made with the financial support of the parents' council, which was then also printed.

In the course of the 2017/2018 school year, a workshop also took place for a 3rd grade class. The theme of the workshop was once again creative writing and it was carried out in collaboration with the Greek writer Spyros Giannakopoulos, who helped the students with a series of interactive tasks to view writing from a different perspective.

The German lessons took place in the 2017/2018 school year as part of our Erasmus + accompanying eTwinning project entitled "Music knows no borders", in which we worked together with our partners. As part of the project, students and teachers had the opportunity to have an alternative approach to the subject of the German language, which implied their engagement with the subject at the most varied level.

One of the alternative ways of approaching texts presented in the workshops associated with our module was the transformation of a text into comics. A method that has been popular at our school for quite some time. In the school year 2017/2018, once again a class of Greek students dealt with the reading of a book and at the same time made a comic book. It is the book "Orange Soda" by the Greek author of youth literature Spyros Giannakopoulos.

In the current school year (2018/2019), an event was organized as part of the Literature Class in the 1st class, which was connected with the reading of a book. The writer Eleni Andreadi and her team were invited to the event. During the event, parts of the book were playfully presented by our guests through interactive tasks. The title of the book is "Justin Gray and the Fireguards". The aim of this action was, on the one hand, the promotion of reading skills and, on the other hand, the promotion of the environmentally conscious behavior of pupils.

Furthermore, in this school year (2018/2019) an opera event was performed in our school with actors and musicians whose subject matter was the tragedy of Aeschylus "The Tied Prometheus". A part from the actors and the musicians, students from our school participated in the performance with their teacher of ancient Greek. The event also had a second part, which had a further education character and was intended solely for the teachers involved.a

Resume other modules of the project

 

The use of digital media (Module 6) is already part of our teaching. For example, in foreign language teaching applications such as the electronic class "Quizlet" are used.

The use of digital media is still reaching its limits as the framework for the use of rapidly evolving media and applications in schools is still evolving.

In order to promote familiarity with the new technologies and to digitize their environment, our students will be offered the chance to participate in a robotics course by our school's computer science teacher on a voluntary basis and outside of regular classes. Meanwhile, our robotics group has come so far that it participates in competitions, e.g. in the Greek competition for "School-Robotic and Physical Computing of Open Technologies".

Since the beginning of the project we have also been working on the subject of communication under the focus on Respect and Tolerance (Module 1). Every year we organize individual workshops (of varying duration) for all classes with psychologists and / or social workers at our school. The focal points to be dealt with are usually different for each class. As a rule, topics such as identity formation and strengthening self-esteem, dealing with one's own feelings, bullying and cyberbullying etc. are treated. We also organize informative events with disabled people - members of a relevant official association - that aim to familiarize our students with the topic of disability and to help them to avoid any fear or bias towards people who are different from them.

Finally, our school strives to fulfill the premise of our project through international cooperation. In the last school year (2017/2018) our school also participated in the following international projects:

1st International School Award (ISA) - by British Council

2nd International Poetry Competition NEVER SUCH INNOCENCE (NSI)

3rd ASIA EUROPE FOUNDATION (ASEF) CULTURE THROUGH LENS.

In the current school year, we have joined another international cooperation. This is the environmental program "Athens-Berlin", in which our school participates with a group of pupils and teachers.

Overall, the 62nd Gymnasium of Athens, both within the scope of our Erasmus Plus project, but also outside of this framework tries to offer something for everyone and to keep the learning interest of the students awake and thus to expand their future prospects as far as possible.

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