The CGS Educational Conference 2018 was a highly successful event, organised by CGS, a school with more than 40 years of presence in the education sector and a member of the global family of the International Baccalaureate (IB) for over 20 years. At the Dimitris Mitropoulos hall of the Athens Concert Hall, participants had the unique opportunity to attend presentations on the Redefinition of the Learning Process and the Key Role of the Educator g...
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Session A: Keynote speeches Session B: Workshops Session A : Keynote Speeches (Dimitris Mitropoulos Hall) 10:00 – 10:30 Conference Registration 10:30 – 11:00 Conference Welcome Welcome Remarks: Christos Geitonas, Managing Director, Board of Directors CGS Zoi Geitona, Vice-President, Board of Directors, CGS, Alumnus, Harvard Graduate School of Education Niki Kerameus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament (State Constituency), Head of t...
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SESSION A – Keynote Speeches «Beyond Wit and Grit», Howard Earl Gardner (video – conference) What makes people successful? The common-sense answer is “wit” (how smart you are) and “grit” (how hard you work). But the story is not so simple, says Dr. Howard Gardner. First, research on human cognition makes it clear that we have not one but many intelligences and ways of being “smart,” and so our concept of wit needs to be plural...
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...
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...
