Heraklion 27/4/2026
The Heraklion Directorate of Secondary Education in collaboration with the European Teacher Academy for Creative and Inclusive Learning https://european-acadimia.eu/ organized training seminars for teachers on April 24 and 25.
The seminars were hosted at the 7th Gymnasium of Crete with the support of the Regional Directorate of Secondary Education and the supervision of Ms. Hara Kyriakaki.
Three teaching methodologies were presented to teachers: the EAR Methodology, which utilizes Socratic Dialectics and theatrical techniques in teaching social issues in many subjects, the Creative STEAM Methodology for creative learning of knowledge in natural sciences and humanities, and the Gamification for Fun Methodology, which utilizes the "gamification" of different learning subjects.
The trainers of the European Teacher Academy for Creative and Inclusive Learning were Ms. Ifigenia Georgiadou, Director of the Hellenic Cuture Centre, Philologist and Teacher Trainer, Mr. Nikolas Kamtsis, director and founder of the Aeroploio Theatre and the Centre for Popular Theatre Studies, partner of ACAδIMIA, and Ms. Korinna Pertsinidou, Coordinator of School Programmes and Networks of the Eastern Attica Regional Educational Service, IT Specialist.
The approximately 55 teachers who were trained expressed their interest in the three teaching methodologies and their application in the classrooms, as well as in their participation in the ACAδIMIA Teacher Community of Practice (CoP) and in accessing the Repository of lesson plans and articles on other teaching methodologies.
ACAδIMIA, which is coordinated by a Greek educational organization, ACTION
SYNERGY https://action.gr/ intends to organize more training seminars in Crete and throughout Greece. The president of the organization, Ms. Anastasia Balaska, also introduced the guests from Geopark Iceland, who came to Crete to develop collaborations between schools in Crete and Iceland.
