The 2nd EPAL has been a vocational school for 28 years.Throughout this school year (2017-2018), 329 students are studying and 63 teachers are teaching general & special education courses. 5 Sectors with 11 specialities are operating in the school; Sectors of: Health and Welfare,Agriculture, Food Technology and Nutrition, Economics and Administration, Applied Arts, Construction. School has all the necessary laboratory facilities, greenhouses & cultivated land, computer labs, applied arts’ lab and drawing boards. Our school is receiving mainly students from low social economic walks of life. Moreover, offers its educational services to an important number of immigrants who live in our country, which forms a multi–cultural environment in our school. Having a technical orientation, the main interest of students is given to the specialization they have chosen, thus there’s little room for cultural and historical action and development. Taking for granted that the school of today aims at the creation of well balanced personalities able to exploit the values of the past and offer in a modern society having critical thinking, we have designed a project which suggests actions promoting cultural awareness. It also gives opportunities to both teachers and students to accomplish an intercultural dialogue aiming at the acquisition of a common European conscience. We are also confident that the experience we have gained from a previously implemented European Comenius project on the subject of museums will facilitate our work and having added a digital dimension to it, will definitely bring positive results. School has a big experience in 12 european projects as coordinator and partner: comenius, LDV for students & staff, partnerships,Erasmus+ KA1 & KA2. The staff is very experienced in EU projects, familiar with new technologies and very motivated for hosting teachers from other European schools and exchange good practices. The team consists of:
Avdelidou Eleni- the deputy director, ICT&Physics specialist, responsible for EU projects
Avdelidis Evangelos-responsible for the computer labs with 2 degrees in Informatics and Maths. He uses web 2.0 tools, educational programming environments, e-learning platform (moodle) & other innovative practices in teaching. Both participated in many Comenius & Erasmus+ KA1 courses like "Digital Extra- eLearning for culture and education", "Future Education with iPads and Tablets","Video Production and Web 2.0", "ICT for Education", "Robotics for schools".
Evangelia Barouta-teacher of English, former head of the cultural office in the Secondary education department of Trikala. She has implemented various projects and worked with several teams of students and teachers. She has also attended Smile project in 2005 among others, and has participated in many cultural programmes and in many European Partnerships
Panagiota Papageorgiou - literature teacher
Stamos Stergios - Art teacher.
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