Intended for 

• Greek Language teachers with no or little language teaching experience to refugees
• Practitioners who have experience in teaching Greek in non-formal contexts, i.e., NGOs or wishing to teach a language they know or Greek as L2
• Experienced language teachers of Greek to refugees who feel they need to upgrade their practical skills
• Directors of language schools who plan to add Greek as L2 for refugees or migrants and design curricula for different learners’ groups
• Other educational or managerial staff, of language organisations, assistant or shadow teachers

Methodology

Apart from study hours according to a time-schedule, the trainees will attend sixteen (16) hours online synchronous Skype sessions with the trainers (optional). The trainers will be communicating through the forum of the platform and will be answering any questions in three days at the latest.

The synchronous sessions are not obligatory, but the trainees could participate in order to ask questions and “meet” all participants. In case a trainee cannot attend the session, she / he will receive the session recorded. 

Trainee teachers have to upload at least one post in every Unit of this course and to upload at least ten answers to other participants. They also should work on the Final Assignment as well as to fill in the evaluation form of the course.

Trainers will be at the trainees’ disposal in order for the later to contact them through Skype, phone or e-mail.

Contents

The refugee issue today in Europe and in Greece:

The profile and needs of different categories of refugees, adults and minors

Teaching and its organization (organising teaching?):

Locating the level of Greek through grading tests and forming the classes

Creating a syllabus and planning the course

Teaching text, assimilating vocabulary, teaching morphological structures, finding and creating teaching materials

Class heterogeneity as a challenge

The dimension of culture in the lessons:

Selection and use of cultural materials, utilization of intercultural elements

Production of new educational materials for cultural integration

Methodology of informal forms of learning (Tandem, Language Café)

The lesson outside the classroom

Introduction to the principles of Intercultural Education

Certification of Attainment in Greek:

Categories of exams, preparation for exams, legal framework

Bodies and agents teaching Greek to refugees:

Programs, particularities.

For the online course: 2 days – 16 hours online, 130€

Includes online synchronous and asynchronous meetings, seminar materials and certificate of attendance. A 20% discount applies to members of non-governmental organizations that are actively involved in teaching Greek as a foreign language on a voluntary basis.

Trainers 

The course includes the experience of the following teachers and trainers. Two or three of the following trainers participate in every course

IFIGENIA GEORGIADOU, MA, Director of the Center for Greek Culture, teacher trainer. Graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens and the Transnational Postgraduate Program “Education and Human Rights” of the Universities of Athens and London. Author of five books on the teaching of the Greek language as a mother tongue and as a foreign language. Teacher teacher, Greek teacher in foreign languages, human rights educator. Certified Eurolta Master Trainer (Adult Instructor Trainer).

NIKOS KONSTANTOPOULOS, MA, Graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens and the Transnational Postgraduate Program “Education and Human Rights” of the Universities of Athens and London as well as the Postgraduate “Cultural Technology” of the University of Athens. EUROLTA Certified Trainer, teacher trainer and member of Amnesty International’s Human Rights Team. Since 1995 she has been teaching voluntarily to immigrants and refugees, people with disabilities and the LGBT community.

YΙOTA BOUZIOU, MA, Graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens and the Transnational Postgraduate Program “Education and Human Rights” of the Universities of Athens and London. He teaches Greek in a public Lyceum. She was responsible for organizing the Greek program for immigrants and refugees in the Non-Governmental Organization Voluntary Work of Athens, for more than ten years.

ILIADA DIAMANTONI, Adult educator of Greek as a foreign language at the Center of Greek Culture since 2014 and volunteer educator for immigrants and refugees at the intercultural school “Bridges” in Kypseli since 2010. She studied European Culture at the Greek Open School. of the Greek language via the internet. EUROLTA certified trainer.

KOSTAS KOROZIS, MA, Graduate of the Department of History and Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace, with a specialization in European History from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He worked in research projects at the Historical Archive of GSEVEE and at the University of Macedonia of Economics and Social Sciences. He was trained in teaching Greek as a foreign language and works as a Greek teacher at the Non-Governmental Organization Mosaik for refugees in Lesvos, while for a year and a half he worked in Moria. EUROLTA certified trainer.

MICHALIS KARAKONSTANTIS, Professor of German language, graduate of the Athens School of Philosophy. He was trained in the teaching of Greek as a foreign language and works as the Head of the teacher team at the Hellenic Refugee Council and as a teacher of Greek for refugees. EUROLTA certified trainer.

KATERINA PRANENTSI, ΜΑ, staff member of the Greek Language Center, member of the team for writing and editing exam tests, evaluator and grader of productive and receptive skills of exams, responsible for the preparation and editing of supporting material for the teaching of the Greek language. Graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Ioannina with postgraduate studies in Adult Education. Certified adult educator by EOPPEP with experience in teaching returnees and people with special skills. Trainer in the Unit “Language Teaching to children” in programs of the Ministry of Education for the distance learning of teachers of Greek as a foreign language.

Dates

The online seminar runs for 2  Saturdays 21/06/2025 and 28/06/2025, from 09.00-18.00 (Greek time), 16 hours total

Certification 

Our Centre issues a Certificate of Attendance for the teacher training courses held, to be submitted to private or public organisations and calls. The Hellenic Culture Centre is an officially recognized as a Lifelong Learning Centre and a language school by the Greek Ministry of Education and Religions (EOPPEP code number 2101782/ 2018 and 2308668/2018).

Working language

Greek is the working language in this course

CANCELATION POLICY

1. The total cost of the seminar must be paid on the last day of registration (30 calendar days before the start date). Payments can be made by bank transfer or by credit card or PayPal. You will be informed of the deposit details after submitting the registration form.
2. Cancellation of participation: Cancellation of participation: Free cancellation 30 days before the start of the teacher training. In case of late cancellation, participants can use half of their tuition fees to register for any course or training seminar of the Hellenic Culture Centre within one year. Cancellation penalty: for late cancellation half of the tuition fee will be retained.
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