{"id":163109,"date":"2026-06-17T13:25:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/?p=163109"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:26:15","slug":"a-student-becomes-the-teacher-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mandoulides.edu.gr\/en\/a-student-becomes-the-teacher-for-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Student Becomes the Teacher for a Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when classroom roles are reversed? When children leave their desks for a while and stand in front of their classmates as teachers?<\/p>\n<p>As part of the activity \u201cI Become a Teacher for a Day,\u201d the third-grade students took on the challenge of designing and presenting their own lessons. 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