Course Details

1. Analyse educational concepts, theories and issues, to manipulate ideas and thoughts, to organize plan and apply lesson schemes in classroom setting, using correctly teaching, learning and assessment strategies.
2. Respond to the diverse educational needs and demands of learners and to adjust the teaching/ the program/ the project to specific educational context.
3. Improve the teaching/learning environment, to manage programmes/projects for school improvement, to organize time and suitable strategies making decisions and solving problems.
4. Evaluate school programmes and materials, to assess the outcomes of learning and learners’ progress, to communicate effectively with fellow students and teachers in nurseries, children and their parents.
5. Foresee new educational needs and demands, aiming to adapt to new situations, concern for quality, work autonomously with an earnest wish and will, and strive to succeed.

Organizing, planning, implementing knowledge: Organizing, planning, implementing knowledge in teaching and learning situations. Analyse and examine educational concepts theories and issues. Planning and implementing lessons with suitable goals and objectives with necessary materials and educational activities. Put into effect teaching/learning strategies, connecting taught knowledge to concepts and theories. Justify their decision, based on principles and theories.

Enhance the multicultural and the multidisciplinary: Multidisciplinary and multicultural classroom situations interpersonal communication with all, cooperation with others working in the school environment. The teaching/learning environment. Counselling skills. Knowledge of the subject to be taught.

Improvement of the schools’ results: Implementation of well-organized lessons, improvement of teaching / learning environment. Facing in a positive way the diverse needs of children. Enrichment of the children’s experiences, implementing strategies and techniques that develop higher abilities to the children.

Assessment/evaluation and feed back of the teaching and learning results: Analyse situations and take decisions. Evaluation of teaching programmes and materials. Assessment and evaluation of the learning and learners’ achievement. Self-evaluation and feedback.

• Kassotakis, M. (2003). The evaluation of pupils’ results. Athens: Gregoris.
• Christias, I. (2004). Theory and Methodology of teaching. Athens: Gregoris.

• Konstantinou, A. (2004). How to manage successfully a school. Nicosia.