Since 2013, I teach at the Anavryta Model Lyceum, in Amaroussion Athens, a northern suburb of the Attica region! Anavryta Model Lyceum is a comprehensive day-school, that fosters innovation, research projects and strongly supports collaboration networks, as we participate in e Twinning programmes, Erasmus Plus programmes, etc. We are also a UNESCO ASPnet member school (since 2014), which is a special add-on to the school's status on a national educational/ academic level. Students in our school (approx. 400, 15-18 years old) are admitted through special written exams in the subjects of Modern Greek Language and Mathematics. It's a real pleasure teaching this lot as we often engage in project work and peer teaching sessions with colleagues of other disciplines (Inter-disciplinary Approach), throughout the school year! I also coordinate the School Model United Nations Club (2 hs/week) as the School's MUN Advisor, preparing students as delegates/ Students Officers, etc. for MUN Conferences!

Anavryta Estate (Main Building)

St. Andrew's Chapel (Anavryta Estate)

Anavryta MUNers at 18th DSA MUN Conference 2015 (Athens, Greece)

Module 1. What is PBL and why use it?

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1.3 P2P- Reflections on my current teaching context ...

What comes to mind is my sparkling new 'Anavryta MUN Club', who are a vibrant group of about 30 teens with excellent language proficiency and communication skills, ready to embark on a voyage to debating/ public speaking and MUN Conferencing! A real challenge for me as their MUN Adviser, indeed! The teaching strategies involved will most probably be: peer teaching, ICT implementation, Inter-disciplinary Approach, Reflective Teaching, group work, self-access, etc. Although the classroom set-up is rather 'traditional' we can move the furniture around (most of the times) and create a miniature 'mock debate' environment for our weekly training sessions! Students actually take the floor and work as 'mentors' for younger or less experienced club members! This is highly motivating and leaves room for the teacher to focus on other areas, such as keeping record of participation, completing the reflective diary, keeping notes for constructive feedback, etc.

1.6 P2P- My PBL Design: formulating my driving question

The Learning Designer ... an outline of a learning process (esp. how I plan to implement PBL in my classroom). Here, the video proved quite useful as I made my first attempt at using Learning Designer.org

My Driving Question ...

Ways to Modern Debating! If only Aristotle could see me, now! [Highly, non-Google-able!]