narrated lead us to considerations of a general nature that I would like to briefly discuss here. First of all I like considering the school as a place to learn the rules of civil coexistence, the sense of respect for legal norms, for laws. Secondly, I think it is very important to teach the agreement on which […]
Different event, different situation, same ending: guilty people discovered. Grade 7, PE class, but not for everybody. The sliest ones purposely arrive late at the gym to have fun and enter a classroom close to theirs, whose students are sharing the gym with them, with the intention of stealthily explore their mates’ rucksacks. Mario, Francesco […]
There’s one thing that excites me about working within the school network: with students you never get bored!You continuously live wondering what will happen later on, and especially, who are going to be today’s kids, what they expect from life and, particularly, from school, who may lead them along the path. I think we can leave […]
Cristina is a wonderful person indeed. She studies and achieves the highest marks. Her average grade is among 9 and 9.5/10. Furthermore, this year, with her Italian teacher’s help, she has placed first — ex-aequo with other three young — at a national writing competition in which more than 1400 students from all over Italy […]
It’s the last day of school. Grade-12 students have been working hard and tirelessly to arrange the party. The gym has been literally transformed: from a place where we put on the line our psycho-physical skills, into a place of creativity development, from the point of view of costumes, scenography, painting, music, electricity, IT, relationships, food, […]
Last day of school, last day of boarding school, last moments of community life, last closing passages of a year rich in meaningful educational and academic experiences. First of all, thank you, GSO students: Sithis, Farah, Oliveira, Natalia, Sara, Elisabetta, for teaching us how to face life with curiosity, joy, patience, respect, exuberance, and even […]
Telling the stories of past school-life experiences, I purposely chose the most striking, curious cases — those that can better highlight the areas of discomfort and, meanwhile, also the opportunities for change, absolutely necessary for the school system. One is the case of a lawyer family that suddenly experiences their daughter’s school failure. Feeling it unfair, they […]
Third lesson of the morning with the grade 11 chartered accountant class: Business Management hour. I am in charge of giving the students very sad news – the two-year old son of a former teacher, on a mission for the poor in Brazil, died in a small lake near the house where they used to […]
Irene stops me at the bus station, wearing a smile as big as a house. She hugs me and asks:“Hello, teacher, how are you doing?” Then, spontaneously, she tells me about the Degree in Education she is currently taking, as Business Management (the subject I used to teach her) wasn’t really her thing. She remembered […]
There are classes that enter your heart: you can’t forget them, even as time passes by, you wish you could stop it to enjoy the pleasure of their company once more. During my 17 years of teaching, only once happened that I had the same class for the whole 5 years of high school: a […]