Articles

• Flipped Classroom

  

  A growing number of studies show that flipped classroom- known as inverted classroom- improve student achievement in nearly any subject.

  Flipped classes allow students to consume lecture materials at their own pace.

  Unlike traditional lectures in which students follow instructor’s pace, students in flipped classrooms can rewind and replay the video as many times as needed in order to improve their understanding of difficult concepts.

• Collaborative Action Research as the Means of Teachers’ Professional Development

  

  There has been an explosion of interest in educational action research as it’s regarded a means of professional development and professionalism. In Greece, the increasing importance of reflective rationality and action research are considered to be at an initial state due to several constraints. In this study, a collaborative action research model was planned and implemented in two school units of primary education. Τhe goal was to improve schools from within by employing teachers as active agents of change within their own organizations.

• A peer group mentoring model

  

  Mentoring is widely supported in many educational systems; In order to enhance teaching effectiveness and professional growth, ongoing guidance is provided by mentors in countries around the world, even to appointed teachers. The current literature review mentions a distinction between the bureaucratic-managerial and the participatory model and also between conventional and educational mentoring models.