The document outlines the presentation from the 2nd Gymnasium Kavalas school on the greatest challenges and opportunities for innovation. It discusses: improving funding for new technologies and teacher training in ICT; participation in exchange programs to familiarize students and teachers with other cultures; ensuring the curriculum meets student needs and relates to their daily lives; putting students at the center through group work and adapting to individual needs; guaranteeing high teacher professional levels through evaluation, training, and experience; internationalizing the school through European exchange programs and curriculum; and improving management through respect, discussion, support services, and collective commitment.

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2nd Gymnasium Kavalas

2. What is the greatest challenge for our school
in innovation?
 funding for innovation means and use of new
technologies
 training of the staff in ICT
 participation in exchange programs
 familiarization with other teaching approaches as
well as cultures
 correspondence of the school curriculum to the
current and real needs of students
 link of education directly to their everyday life

3. What is the method we use most to put the
student into the center in education?
 we create an atmosphere in which students feel
motivated to contribute to the class
 we encourage team work in class and through
projects in which students become parts of mixed-
ability groups who make proper researches and
investigations
 we try to be flexible and adapt the curriculum to
every student need
 we encourage collaboration with the parents

4. What is the most favored way for us to guarantee
the high professional level of staff?
 teachers’ evaluation and self evaluation
 in-service training
 undergoing various courses related to their field of
studies
 compulsory pedagogical training at the beginning of
our career
 our own teaching experience

5. What can be done more to internationalize
our school in short and long term?
 participation in European exchange programs
 participation in e-learning platforms like E-Twinning
 promotion of the European identity of our students
through emphasizing the European dimension of the
curriculum (European literature, European history)

6. What would be the next step for us to
improve our management?
 respect to each other’s specialty, background and
approach to work
 nourishment of a climate of mutual acceptance between
colleagues
 get-togethers to discuss over students’ problems
 strong need for Care Workers and Psychologists who
would offer support to students, parents as well as
teachers.
 recruitment of administration staff
 collective management and commitment in a common
vision for our school