EDUCATION SYSTEM IN ITALY

EDUCATION IN THE ITALIAN CONSTITUTION  Article 33 : “… art and science as well as their teaching are free”. “The Republic lays down general rules for education and establishes state schools for all branches and grades” “Public bodies and private persons have the right to establish schools and education institutes, at no cost to the State.” “The law defining rights and obligations of private schools has to guarantee full liberty to them and equal treatment with pupils of state schools”.

EDUCATION IN THE ITALIAN CONSTITUTION  Article 34 : Schools are open to everyone. Primary education, given for at least eight years, is compulsory. Capable and deserving pupils, even if lacking financial resources, have the right to attain the highest levels of education.The Republic furthers the realization of this right by scholarships. The main purpose of higher education, is to promote scientific progress of the nation and to provide all citizens with education and training that will lead to employment

EDUCATIONAL STAGES  FIRST STAGE  Primary school  Lower grade secondary school State ‘s exam  Upper grade secondary school  SECOND STAGE Lyceum Vocational Institutes State ‘s final exam

NON COMPULSORY PRE-SCHOOL STAGE THREE YEARS (CHILDREN FROM 2/½ - 3 YEARS TO 5 ½-6) YEARLY CURRICULUM (FROM 875 TO 1700 HOURS PER YEAR) Nursery school “Scuola dell’infanzia”

Nursery school “Scuola dell’infanzia” Organization: Heterogeneous / Homogeneous age classes Min. 18 max 26 pupils per class School-time: Full time (40 hours per week) Half time (25 hours per week) Teaching staff: Full time option: 2 class teachers Half time option: 1 class teacher Catholic Religion teacher (2 hours a week) Teacher Aid (in classes with disabled pupils)

AAIMS: Nursery school “Scuola dell’infanzia” SUPPORTING CHILD’S EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOMOTORIAL, COGNITIVE, MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; FOSTERING CHILD’S ABILITIES OF RELATIONSHIP, AUTONOMY, CREATIVITY, LEARNING; GUARANTEEING EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES; CARRYING ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL CONTINUITY TOWARDS PRIMARY SCHOOL

Nursery school “Scuola dell’infanzia” NATIONAL GUIDELINES CONCERNING PROGRAMME (2007) EMPHASIZE THESE GOALS: Supporting children’s development of identity: Learning to feel at ease when facing new experiences in a larger social context Experiencing different roles and kinds of identity: son or daughter, pupil, school-mate, male or female, member of a community …

Nursery school “Scuola dell’infanzia” NATIONAL GUIDELINES (2007) Promoting children’s development of autonomy: Learning to take part into activities in different contexts, acquiring self-confidence and learning to trust on the others. Experiencing the social setting and understanding the rules of everyday life; taking part into decisions, giving reasons for opinions, choices and behaviours.

Nursery school “Scuola dell’infanzia” NATIONAL GUIDELINES (2007) Stimulating children’s development of competence: Learning to think over experience by exploring, observing and comparing Getting used to make questions, to reason out, to clarify meanings

Nursery school “Scuola dell’infanzia” Developping children’s awareness about citizenship and democracy : Taking into account others’ needs and realizing the necessity to share common rules. Learning to decide/ discuss rules by means of dialogue, expression of personal points of view and respect toward others’opinions. Acquiring a responsible attitude toward the natural environment

Nursery school “Scuola dell’infanzia” EXPERIENCIAL AREAS THE BODY and THE MOTION THE SELF and THE OTHER LANGUAGES and CREATIVITY LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE MEASURES, SPACE, TIME, ENVIRONMENT

Primary School “Scuola Primaria”  COMPULSORY  FIVE YEARS (CHILDREN FROM 5/½ -6 YEARS TO 11 YEARS)  YEARLY CURRICULUM (891 HOURS min. / YEAR) + 99 OPTIONAL HOURS (compulsory for schools, facultative for families)

Primary School “Scuola Primaria” Organization: Min. 15 max 27 pupils per class School-time: Not less than 5 days a week Full time (40 hours per week) Half time (27 hours per week) Flexibility: - TIME: the whole timetable and the timetable devoted to each discipline can be modified according to didactic autonomy guaranteed by law to scholastic institutions

Primary School “Scuola Primaria” Flexibility: - MODULE TEAM: 3 TEACHERS WORKING ON 2 CLASSES; Linguistic,artistic and expressivity area History-geography-social science area Mathematical- scientific-technological area English language teacher (if no module teacher can teach English) Catholic Religion teacher

Primary School “Scuola Primaria”  AIMS: PROMOTING CULTURAL AND SOCIAL LITERACY: learn to manage the symbolic languages that are the structure of our culture SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CITIZENSHIP AWARENESS: focus on legality and responsability ENCOURAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD’S PERSONALITY with regard toward individual differences

Primary School “Scuola Primaria” METHODOLOGY (FROM NATIONAL GUIDELINES,2007): To emphasize the value of experiences and previous knowledge that pupils already have, in order to link new contents To adapt the educational action to the class context, paying attention to diversity To promote pupil’s drive toward experimentation

Primary School “Scuola Primaria” METHODOLOGY ( FROM NATIONAL GUIDELINES,2007) To encourage cooperative learning To promote student ‘s awareness of his personal way of learning To enact laboratorial activities

Lower Grade Secondary School “Scuola Media”  COMPULSORY  THREE YEARS (Students from 11 to 13 years)  YEARLY CURRICULUM (957 HOURS / YEAR) OPTIONAL HOURS (compulsory for schools, facultative for families)  FINAL EXAM, concluding the first stage and giving access to the second stage of education.

Lower Grade Secondary School “Scuola Media”  Organization: Min. 18 max 27 students per class School-time: -Not less than 5 days a week -Min. 29 max. 33 lesson hours per week)  Flexibility: School-time Setting

Lower Grade Secondary School “Scuola Media”  AIMS: Promoting, through disciplines, the development of personal abilities of study and of social interaction; Organizing and enhancing students’ knowledge and skills, with regards to cultural tradition and social, cultural and scientific evolution in contemporary society

Lower Grade Secondary School “Scuola Media”  AIMS: Gradually developping students’ competences and ability to make choices responding to their vocation and aptitude; Introducing the study of a second foreign language spoken in E.U.

Upper Grade Secondary School “Scuola Superiore”  COMPULSORY (before reaching 16 years)  FIVE YEARS (Students from 14 to 19 years)  FINAL EXAM, concluding the second stage and giving access to University

Upper Grade Secondary School “Scuola Superiore” Lyceum Vocational Institutes Same core curriculum for the first 2 years 3rd year Classic school Science school Artistic school Language school Socio-psycho- pedagogic school Vocational Institutes Technical Institutes