New School

 By Koutsoumpa Rena

......So, in planning a lesson of any school subject we have to bear in mind some issues which support the principles of this New School.

a) We must first make clear to ourselves what we want to teach at the specific class with the specific human resources setting this way our goals not too far and not too near their intellectual reach.

b) We must find a way to make this/these goal/s clear to our pupils so as to make them feel secure from the beginning of their task.

c) We must use the school book as a spring board rather than a platform where our efforts begin and end. This requires the gathering of any material that can be useful for the achievement of our target including the use of the modern technologies.

d) We must try to be as discreet as possible during the implementation of the lesson plan leaving much initiative to our pupils after having helped them to form groups or pairs.

e) The backbone where their work is based must match their interests and contain the element of game and fun.

f) At the end of each lesson we must give some time to ourselves and to our pupils to reflect on the procedures followed and the results they bore. In other words we must assess the work done and come to conclusions that will serve as guidelines for any similar future task.