GREEK SCHOOL 2004 and Beyond

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GREEK SCHOOL 2004 and Beyond
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AGENDA

• 1500 Welcome
• 1500 1515 .Meet and Greet
• 1515 1540 .Presentation
• 1540 1600 .Floor Discussion
• 1600 1625 .PTA Vote

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Project Goal To Develop and Implement a School
Structure that can meet our current and future
needs

• CRITICAL REQUIREMENTS
• To promote a more comprehensive learning
  environment that will enable the student to
  enhance their Greek language capability
• To facilitate active involvement of the
  parents,staff and the community in the guidance
  of and promotion of the Greek language and
  Heritage

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Project Goals To Develop and Implement a School
Structure that can meet our current and future
needs

• To institute an environment that will allow the
  children to interact together and be immersed in
  a in a more organized Greek language setting
• To construct a school system that will allow the
  teachers to implement a more robust and enhanced
  curriculum for the students and
• To ensure that the format adopted is executed
  within an acceptable time frame.

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Description

• Cooperative effort of the Teachers and PTA to
  develop an acceptable format that requires a
  change to
• the curriculum
• delivery method
• timing of the Greek School.

FOR MORE INFO...
See Timings and Curriculum Change Proposal Sheet
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Current Situation

• Greek School operates on Mon, Tues,Thurs,Fri
  evenings (1745-1930) and Sat from (1130-1300)
  
• Curriculum is exclusively based on a grade system
  commencing from junior preschool through grade
  six
• Each student receives three hours classroom
  instruction (less preschool)

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Critical Analysis

• Weaknesses
• Evening for the younger ages is not an optimum
  learning time
• Sessions of 1.5 hours does not facilitate nor
  promote any cultural interaction for the
  children
• Midweek family schedules disallow any meaningful
  attempt to progress childrens capacity to learn
  another language and

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Critical Analysis

• Weaknesses (contd)
• Large disparity of Greek language knowledge
  amongst students negates the effectiveness and
  relevancy of the current grade system.

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Curriculum and Timings

• Benefits
• Level system of learning will enable students to
  learn alongside others of the same level and
  allow those more advanced to progress
• Longer Sessions will allow for greater
  interaction amongst students and enable cultural
  activities to be promoted more thoroughly
• Teachers will be given the framework to implement
  a more dynamic delivery method and
• Parent involvement (volunteer activism) will
  promote the development of and delivery of more
  activity based language /cultural interaction.

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Team/Resources

• - People
• Equipment
• Locations
• Support outside services

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Schedule

• Milestones

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BALLOT

• Part I Do you wish for changes to be made
  to
• the timing and delivery of
  Greek School?
• Yes or
  No

Vote Outcome 18
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PROPOSALS

• Part II
• Timings
• I Wed Evening and Sat morning 2 hours
  each..O
• II Saturday Morning ( 4-5 hours)
• ..O

Vote outcome I 2 II
12 blanks 2 none 1
undecided 1