Learning

Aims:

• The bolstering of our students’ mental resilience through the fostering of relationships.
• Maintaining daily contact with them and their socio-emotional development and support.

In addition, regardless of teaching methods and the way schools operate, the following have been planned:

• Planning and scheduling daily activities / actions with the flexibility to adapt them to any situation
• Holding general events, culminating events, an Exhibition and other activities through which students have the opportunity to showcase their knowledge and skills with the flexibility to adapt to any situation.
• Creating clubs  whose activities can be applied to any given situation
• Equipping the classrooms with visual aids specially designed for the Arts courses (Music, Visual Arts, Drama) for their use by all the teachers / students throughout the timetable

• Use of the digitized books of the Ministry of Education &­­ Religious Affairs and the approved educational pages
• Selection of foreign language books, which are also available in digital form, use of multi-modal aids, literary books, and educational material specially designed for the needs of a course, as they arise each time.
• Use of the technology available to CGS (ManageBac, MS Teams, Office 365) in a specific way in order to directly support educational activities (e.g. teleconferencing, posting of digital material, communication, etc.)
• Training students, always according to their age, in the new routines that they will need to follow during the year with the aim of their achieving independence (familiarity with digital platforms, homework, the next day’s timetable, etc.)
• Regular communication with the parents of the students by all teachers (morning meetings, PTA afternoon meetings, scheduled appointments).

In light of the current situation, the planning for the IB Middle Years Programme and the General Lyceum focuses on three pillars:

A. STUDENTS

The primary goal for our students is their smooth integration and adaptation to the school process but also their safe return to and stay at school. A basic prerequisite is for students to create relationships with their classmates and teachers in order to cultivate a sense of “belonging” to a class. This will be achieved through:

a) Class teachers, who will guide the students in order that they attain their goals, the educational material, the tasks and the activities pertaining to each course, as well as the method of evaluation both in the online educational process and in the classroom.

b) Form teachers, who will facilitate the induction of students, in particular IB MYP Year 1 students, but also for the newcomers in other years.

c) Tutors, who, through one-to-one meetings with their tutees, either remotely or with them in person at school, aim to develop a constructive relationship of trust between the student and the teacher in order to properly support student development and progress.

B. EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL- SKILLS

As you may well know, all textbooks are available in electronic form on the Ministry of Education & Religious Affairs’s “Digital School” website. There is also a selection of interactive books, which in many cases act as teaching aids.

CGS training materials have been adapted to the new situation we find ourselves in. Specifically, all the booklets, worksheets and resources will be available on the Managebac platform or will be sent by email to the students of B ‘ and C’ Lyceum. In addition, alternative activities and presentations have been designed by each department (e.g. virtual experiments, online quizzes, teamwork activities) in case conditions require distance learning.

Basic skills that students need to cultivate are the organization of their studies, autonomy and initiative in learning, as well as personal responsibility for their progress. Each teacher, but also tutor, will focus in this direction, in order to “listen” to the needs of the students and to guide them appropriately. Depending on the scheduled skills periods (ATLs) for each year, but also on class time, teachers have adapted actions and activities in order to achieve educational goals in both modern and asynchronous teaching.

C. PARENTS

An important factor in the educational process is the cooperation of teachers and parents. Initially, an online first communication with the parents of the new students has been planned with the administration of the Middle Schoool and the IB MYP Heads, for which you will be informed in the next communication. For clarifications on educational and day-to-day issues you can contact us by phone, or by scheduled appointment with the administration and subject coordinators.