Οι επιμορφωτικές ανάγκες των Ελλήνων εκπαιδευτικών που υπηρετούν στα παροικιακά σχολεία της Μεγάλης Βρετανίας

Περίληψη

The aim of this research was to investigate Greek teachers' opinion about the training needs they have in order to teach effectively in the Greek community schools at Great Britain. A questionnaire was the tool that helped to collect the necessary data from 42 teachers at the end of the academic year 2002-2003. The results of the research showed that the majority of the sample did not believe that they gained important benefits form their previous training. For the future these teachers would like to be trained on issues that are relevant to the parent - school collaboration in favor of the teaching process, to the use of ICT in teaching, to student' assessment and to elements of English educational system that influenced the Greek community educational system. Furthermore, the majority of the teachers declared that in future they would prefer to be trained with the methods of "peer group", "model teaching" and "long distance training" while, they are less favored to the lecture method. Finally, among the factors that would encourage them to participate in training courses, in the future, are the existence of a web site with training resources, the provision of sabbatical leave and grand and the support of their head teacher.