Welcome Judges

My teaching journey is my life journey.

Nomination Description

I always call myself “daskala” and this defines me as a personality in total.

I always ”catch” myself trying to help people around me.

My job has made me a better person.

My school

I have had my school for 20 years exactly and through those years, I have tried to transform my school into a magical place with a village full of shops, a fully equipped kitchen where my students can cook, a sensory path that they walk through before entering the classroom, a cinema classroom, where they watch films, a library full of books and board games, 3 big indoors playgrounds and one outdoors  that they can express themselves.

My ELT gold-awarded Educational Method

Learning while having fun involves incorporating elements of play, creativity, and engagement into the educational process. There shouldn’t be any dichotomy between enjoyment and learning. Learning becomes more engaging and effective when it is infused with fun, activities, laughter, noise, and love. So in our curriculum we include: games, projects, newspaper club, story-telling events, festivals, thematic weeks, candy wars, yoga, parents’ academies)

We celebrate every occasion out and loud

We have great Christmas festivals, and every year we sing the carols in the neighborhood. Instead of getting money, our students offer the people a calendar that they have made for the new year. Every year we prepare hand-made products exhibition for Easter, that after showing to parents what their children have made, we give it to them to take it home. Of course, we have great Carnival and Halloween parties. Every summer we also have a great festival with over 4,000 people some of the times.

CANDY WAR

Everybody gets so much excited being involved in this game.

Also, with this game, they learn to respect each other because they are obliged to pick up only one candy and leave all the rest for their classmates.

Thematic weeks

We also have thematic weeks. For example, there is a pyjamas week or a flip-flop week just to make them feel “at home.”

Parents’ Academy

We don’t offer only to our students but to their parents and the whole community around our school. We talk about current issues, and we find solutions to many problems.

My volunteer work

I am a member of the Volunteers of Fyli Municipality where we cook every Sunday in the central square of our city for the poor and we try to support them in every possible way. Moreover, with my students, we collect presents for the children of “Elpida” Hospital. In this way, I teach them empathy and appreciation for their own way of living.

My aim

My school is in the poorest area of Attiki. My students are extremely poor and I want to be their passport to their better future. That’s why I offer them advice and numerous seminars. I take them once a year at the University of Athens and we attend classes like in the English Literature Department. I take them on trips abroad so as to broaden their horizons.

Be Bonded

I am very proud to be the founder of BB, which is a festival of unity where a lot of foreign language schools, frontistiria, sports teams, nursery schools and dance schools participate and present their own part under the umbrella of a specific topic. In this way, we promote cooperation and socialization.

 

Ted-Ed

Our School is a member of TedEd community and our aim is to strengthen their throughlines and talk arcs by presenting their ideas at their classmates in a big event that will take place this summer. The theme is going to be

“Helping the women that have no rights in their countries”

Pod-casts

I also participate with my students (of all ages) in several pod-casts in the local radio station and we talk about things that they care in English.

Our Educational System W2W

But nothing could have been achieved if we didn’t apply our educational system W2W.