The Seniors Club - A + B

Sir Ken Robinson - RSA talk

2011-09-18T21:49:00.002+03:00

on-line quizzes

2010-09-27T16:53:00.002+03:00

Inspiration comes from everywhere

2010-05-27T16:18:00.000+03:00

A follow-up to the 2006 talk on creativity and talent (Schools kill creativity Feb 2006)

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!

straight from the horse's mouth

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity Feb 2006

What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way. We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. And the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities. —Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2006

Moshe Safdie TED 2002 on Truth and Beauty

He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self expression. He who seeks self expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance. Arrogance is incompatible with nature. Through nature, the nature of the universe, and the nature of man, we shall seek truth. If we seek truth, we shall find beauty. —Moshe Safdie, TED 2002

June meeting

2010-05-22T15:51:00.002+03:00

A' Class teachers are kindly requested to be at the Karaiskou building on June the 3rd.
A thorough discussion on the new coursebook material will take place.

2010-05-16T14:52:00.001+03:00

Phrasal verbs slides

Fun With Phrasal Verbs

View more presentations from Janet Bianchini.

12 year olds are to be taken seriously

2010-04-15T11:21:00.001+03:00

Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids - TED talk 2010

March 2010 Meetings

2010-01-21T12:13:00.007+02:00

A Class meeting : 16/04/2010 10 a.m ---> Anna - Karaiskou

B Class meeting : 23/04/2010 9.30 a.m ---> Anna - Karaiskou

Quest 1 - Oxford

material to be prepared until the end of the school year

On Line Teaching Material

2010-01-15T22:12:00.001+02:00

The birth and death of stars (ppt)

Course Organisation

2010-01-15T22:07:00.001+02:00

November 2009
Feel free to contribute your ideas. There is always room for something new and exciting. Upload original material you design for your classes and provide your students the opportunity to publish their projects. Remember that this is a group effort. Sharing is caring!
------------------------------------------------------------------
B Class 23/10/09 09:00 - Karaiskou - a thorough discussion on the writing part of the booklet took place. We need to give our sts incentive and the chance to expand on topics. Powerpoint presentations provide additional information and can be used to enhance their end product in speaking and writing. Manipulate material according to Sts needs and abilities. Try to capture imagination and provide ample opportunities to use target language. (check files in laptops or follow the links below. Ts have been invited to shared material in dropbox- invitations have been sent to their email addresses)

Module 1 - Rare animals
Module 2 - Homes

22/10/09
A and B Class meetings
A Class 22/10/09 10:00 - Karaiskou - the complete agenda has been emailed - New material to be prepared.
Thanks to all colleagues who participated. Keep it up!!

Past Events
A' Class general assembly - Oct 10th, 5.15 p.m. - Laodikias 124, Nikea

11/9 A Class teachers have already been e-mailed with the 2009-10 Yearly Syllabus and the monthly all-inclusive syllabus. Also they have been linked (successfully) with the writing material included in this year's booklet - and have been invited to be actively involved in this blog.

18/09 B' Class teachers have been emailed with course organisation documents and linked to the writing material included in this year's booklet. Their contribution to this blog is more than welcome.

Ac. Calendar 2009 - 2010
Get a taste of the dates and days

Wild West

2010-01-08T21:34:00.029+02:00

This is the Eagle on his Fist.

The Eagle on his Fist with his sister The Beauty on her Face.

I hereby attach two pictures depicting the Indian chief of the Cherokee tribe ''The eagle on his fist''. In the second picture he is with his sister ''The beauty on her face'' when they were children. ''The beauty on her face'' and their parents were killed by the Europeans and ''The Eagle on his Fist'' became the chief.

Of course, the names and the whole script are imaginery, but the idea was the simultaneous introduction of vocabulary presented in module 7 and that of Simple Past.

In class, I used the pictures presenting some new vocabulary items like ''tepee'', ''chief'' etc and, at the same time, I introduced the concept of Present and Past by contradicting the two pictures and eliciting from the students phrases like ''The chief has a horse'', ''(In the past)he didn't have a horse''.

So, that's the whole concept which I wanted to share with the rest of the team. If you like it feel free to use it!Bye!

Wild West

A' CLASS CHRISTMAS PLAY: SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN ON 20 DECEMBER 2009

2009-12-13T13:09:00.002+02:00

CLASS: A
SECTION: 3
TEACHER: DORA SYNEFIA
TITLE OF PLAY: 'SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN'
WRITTEN BY: DEMA KIRKILI
DIRECTED BY: DORA SYNEFIA

A few words about the play:
It's Christmas Eve and 6 children ,with different nationalities and religious belief, who live in snowy London decide to sing traditional Christmas Carols to get extra pocket money. When one of the girls talks about the starving children in Africa they decide to offer money to help them!

Starring:
Elizabeth Panaousi (Narrator 1)
John Mavromatakis (Narrator 2)
Magdalene Panta-Vati (Emma)
Nektaria Flega (Jill)
Stathis Kritidis (Toby)
Soat Delganto (Kate)
Nicoleta Manti (Wanda)
Valerios Peppas (Will)
Demetra Zikou (Choir)

On-line tools

2009-11-12T21:51:00.000+02:00

Incredible online graphical dictionary and thesaurus

Stars

2009-10-26T23:47:00.000+02:00

Stars and Articles for A' Class (new)

Starry night over the Rhone
Vincent Van Gogh

What can the Hubble telescope see?Millions - billions - trillions - zillions of stars

Kids love stars
and teachers love The Articles

Homes

2009-10-24T12:01:00.003+03:00

There is no place like home

Day to day plan / guide to writing module 2

Pen Pal Exchanges

2009-10-20T12:05:00.003+03:00

I have registered for my classes here. Hopefully, we'll get matched pretty soon with students from other countries.

Our correspondence partners are

1) School Name: Christian Center School
School Address: 1210 Stoneman Avenue,
Pittsburg, California 94565,
United States of America

2)School Name: Crestridge Magnet for International Studies,
School Address: 818 Crestridge Road,
Omaha, Nebraska 68154,
United States of America

Rare Animals

2009-09-21T18:41:00.005+03:00

... some animals like to move it...

B' Class Module 1 - writing "Rare Animals"

From the Past to the Present

2009-09-18T14:30:00.003+03:00

A long long time ago there was only water on this planet...

the above is a Wikimedia Commons image

Literature

2009-05-26T16:29:00.006+03:00

“Goodbye,” said the fox. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

The Little Prince pdf by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (a classic piece - timeless)

"To the real Jonathan Seagull,
who lives within us all."
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach (English - Greek translation)

Practice makes perfect

2009-05-22T00:17:00.018+03:00

B' Class material

Vocabulary practice Module 6 (Food)
Meals
Restaurants
Staff

Maori cooking (Passive) powerpoint presentation

Module 3 - Myths and Legends

The Kraken

Video (from the Pirates of the Caribbean
The Kraken attack (2:25)

A' Class material

Aliens are coming to Earth powerpoint presentation (mod 6)

Writing a brochure - project work

A Class Module 7 vocabulary crossword

A' Class Module 8

The Hindenburg .pdf

Video (1:13) The Hindenburg burning
Transcript:
...It's practically standing still now. They've dropped ropes out of the nose of the ship,
and it's been taken a hold of down on the field by a number of men. It's starting to rain again; the rain had slacked up a little bit. The back motors of the ship are just holding it, just enough to keep it from --"
"It burst into flames! ... It's fire and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my! Get out of the way, please! It's burning, bursting into flames and is falling on the mooring mast, and all the folks agree that this is terrible. This is the worst of the worst catastrophes in the world! ...There's smoke, and there's flames, now, and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the mooring mast...Oh, the humanity, and all the passengers screaming around here!

Video (5:26) The Hindenburg explodes

reading material

2009-05-21T23:38:00.002+03:00

Teaching with the Brain in Mind (pdf) - learn how we learn

Attention Deficit Disorder - Practical Coping Mechanisms

Finding Flow (.pdf) - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Psychology of Engagement with everyday Life

Welcome Note

2009-05-21T11:21:00.000+03:00

A and B classes @ the Papaeliou Schools enter the world of blogging. Let's explore this dynamic tool together.

See you all,
Anna