How to work on the 7 macroareas Barcelona May, 15th 2018

Macro area format description

1. TRUST SCHOOL / FAMILY Informal meeting opportunities A real partnership agreement (not only formal) that establishes mutual commitments and objectives (to be shared between school / family / student) and which provides for structured verification moments during the year Opening of the school to parents during educational activities

2. PROCESSUAL LEARNING today excessively flattened on the PERFORMANCE, ON THE RESULT and not on the PERSON in its complexity Insertion of the TUTOR in the school, on the IEFP model (or DEDICATE hours of the class coordinator to this work, of active relationship with the family and promotion school well-being also with external supports) PERSONALIZED interventions on the most complex cases Evaluation: devising paths to think about it in terms of personal development (SENSE) and not just a punctual check of individual performance. Use the behavior mark differently? Evaluation built on a path of school / family dialogue? Importance of STORIES and individual paths all around (there is a first to be evaluated and a post to which to tend) MEDIATION (especially with foreign families with poor language skills): experience of "moms" laboratories developed in different schools in Bologna. Process of rapprochement between INSTITUTION and daily family problems. Avoid meeting only in the emergency.

3. SCHOOL/FAMILY COMMUNICATION Informal opportunities for school / family / student meeting (for example word cafè) Teatro dell’oppresso   Problem of new technologies: (electronic register) that cancel the direct relationship Parent-teacher's meeting: the way in which it is actually managed is almost exclusively in a bureaucratic way

4. PARTECIPATION OF THE FAMILY IN SCHOOL LIFE The starting point is that teachers complain about the participation of the family that is seen only as instrumental to the performance of their child (especially in high school) Development of PARTICIPATION paths Working on the CONCEPT of participation as a value in itself, and not just instrumental

5. PROCESSUAL ORIENTATION It is a general theme to deal with in a systematic way in all the moments and forms. It is the emergence of dispersion today. We need to relaunch it: ICE project, Zone Plans ....  In our case it is necessary to develop practices that deal with this issue from the point of view of the involvement of the family: promotion of experiments on the theme of DIALOGUE AND RELATIONSHIP between SCHOOL / FAMILY / STUDENT in the process of choice / transition of the school and at the same time in supporting the educational process and personal transversal planning

6. INSTRUMENTS AND PLACES OF EXCHANGE OF VIEWS • Organisms to meet and discuss about the problems of the school, which can also have a proactive value (for example IC San Lazzaro). • PLANNING PARTICIPATED BY FAMILIES AND STUDENTS (to be considered part of the family and not "objects" of the discussion without any voice in the matter) • Paths of mutual support between parents (for example Time Bank ...)

7. SPACES FOR PARENTS INSIDE SCHOOL For example "Parental Rooms" promoted by “CD Lei” in past years Mechanisms thanks to the spaces of the school can be used for common socializing moments (classy birthday parties, etc ...)

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