Thematic Week is coming to Junior High Schools and on Wednesday, 27/2 at 2:30 pm, Katheti hosts a free seminar for educators. During the seminar, there will be a presentation of educational materials for the “Gender Roles” thematic section. In the peer to peer education framework, activities will be presented and experiential exercises relevant to gender roles’ aspects will take place for a whole duration of two hours. The materials will be presented by the volunteer Maria Pateraki, educator at Galatas Junior High School.

Maria Pateraki has been working as an educator since 2004 and since 2016 she has been the coordinator of the Thematic Week Programme at the Junior High School of Galatas. In the first year of the introduction of the Thematic Week at schools, she organised a training seminar for parents and guardians in relation to the Addictions and Gender Roles sections of the Thematic Week in collaboration with the Parents and Guardians Association. She has translated and designed educational materials relevant to gender roles which have been approved by the Ministry of Education and the Institute of Educational Policy.