Howard Earl Gardner, The John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Senior Director, Harvard Project Zero. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 1990, he was the first American to receive the University of Louisville’s Grawemeyer Award in Education and in 20...
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CGS Educational Conference 2018 A unique educational event, Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall Rethinking pedagogy is as crucial as identifying the new competencies that today’s learners need to develop. Redefining the role of the educator and redesigning the learning process constitutes a revolution, which is currently underway globally and goes beyond the boundaries of the school environment. Modern educational approaches combined with the dyna...
“I wish you knew how happy you made us” The Global Issues Network (GIN) club aims to shape active citizens who work together locally and internationally to find sustainable solutions to problems faced by the global community. Last year at the annual Global Issues Network conference in Luxembourg, the CGS team presented the decisive role that education can play in gender inequality. At the end of the conference, our club committed itself to he...
The Global Issues Network (GIN) club and the Model United Nations (MUN) club are joining forces against the water crisis! In 2014, the United Nations established access to clean, drinking water as a human right. However, much of the world’s population is deprived of this right as they live in extremely unhealthy conditions. UNICEF estimates that 1 in 5 children under 5 die each day from diseases related to the lack of safe water. It is esti...
The Model United Nations (MUN) is the most important educational simulation for diplomacy, international relations and the work of the United Nations in the world, involving schools from all over the world. Through public discourse, debate and discussions on international issues, students have the opportunity to aspire to institutional positions in the Model United Nations and to work further in international teams deepening international diploma...
The Pincipal's Medal Award at the University of Edinburgh is one of the most important ways in which the University recognises both academics or students who have made outstanding contributions to both the University and wider communities. The 2017 Principal Medal Award winner is Alexandros Angelopoulos and his fellow student, Sam Kellerhals. "Elpis", the project for which they are recognized, means hope. Congratulations to our CGS alumnus f...
“One book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.” On Friday October 20, 2017, the CGS GIN club visited the Ark of the World to offer the stationery that students had collected on the Pan-Hellenic School Sports Day. Founded by Father Anthony Papanikolaou in 1998, the Ark of the World is a voluntary non-profit organization for Mother and Child Protection. Its purpose is to focus care, support and hope on children either livin...
As an official Olympic sport, basketball in Greece comes under the Hellenic Basketball Federation. In Greece, the federation is responsible for designing the development of the sport, including Pan-Hellenic youth competitions as well as its own developmental programme, creating regional teams for all Associations, with children aged 11-12 and 12-16 years old. The official Pan-Hellenic youth competitions are exactly the same as those that exist un...
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Never give up on your horse because your horse would never give up on you This year, weekly tailor-made horse-riding lessons suitable for primary and secondary school children commenced during the SMART extra-curricular activities offered in the afternoon. CGS offers the lessons in collaboration with the Tatoi Jockey Club. According to psychologists, apart from the benefits to their physical health, horse-riding helps children immensely wi...
