1. 34-year-old, from Rimini area (North East of Italy)
Myself
34-year-old, from Rimini area (North East of Italy)
Teacher of italian, history, geography and citizenship education
☺ “con abilitazione”: a post-degree specialization for teachers
precarious: a teacher which has a nine-month contract as much, depending on his/her position in a very long and complex national list

2. Head of the school library
My job
Place of work: “Scuola Media” (students aged 11-13) – Istituto Comprensivo di Verucchio (Rimini, Italy)
Head of the school library
Main interests and projects I manage in my school: cinema, reading, theatre, TIC's, intercultural education, DSA*
* this font is for you!

3. My school: Istituto Comprensivo Verucchio

4. Italian education and training system
This diagram is not taken from Organisation of the education system in Italy 2009/2010, Eurybase Italy,,
because of a mistake: the diagrams showed in that document represent IRELAND! This diagram is taken from The structure of the European education systems 2011/12: schematical diagrams, same website

5. Some key aspects of Italian school
Negative natural population movement and increasing aging process
Steady increase in birth rate because of immigration
Since 2007 length of compulsory education extended from 8 up to 10 years, (16 years of age). Debate about up to 18
Debate about enrol children aged less than 3 and 6 to pre- primary and primary schools
About students (8%) are immigrants* (2011)
* in 2011 the increase of immigrants students has been lowest than in the past, but there's been a significant increase of the so called “G2”: students born in Italy from immigrant parents

6. Pupils (n° and %) with non-Italian nationality, their country of origin and school level, school year 2010/2011.
Source: Miur – Ismu foundation

7. Plurilingualism in Italian school
12 minority languages officially recognized, acknowledged and safeguarded*
''Special statute regions” recognize their minorities as co- official languages
''Protected'' languages as teaching instruments on request of pupils' families in preprimary, primary and lower secondary schools (a political use?)
Foreign languages study is fundamental
...AND IMMIGRANTS?
* Protection of minority languages and cultures is provided for in the Constitution and in Law no.482/1999.
Minority languages are: Albanian, Catalan, German, Greek, Slovenian, Croatian, French, Provençal, Occitan, Friulan, Ladin, Sardinian.

8. Interculturality in Italian school
Law n°40/1998: school welcomes linguistic and cultural differences as values which help granting mutual respect, exchange among cultures and tolerance
'Immigrant students' = various situations as newly- arrived, migrant or immigrant background (3rd increasing)
Legal status of students and families
Cultural and linguistic mediators
Italian L2 teachers

9. Something to think about...
Plurilingualism as a structural condition of present and future classes (even if not expressed)
Interculture is NOT ONLY integration
Interculture as a key competence for teachers (whatever the subject)
Needs of new strategies and good practices to count on
Need to think all languages different&equal

10. Involving the families
Challenges
Interculture is NOT: a curriculum, a content, a project, an activity (a difficult achievment even for teachers!)
Involving the families
Mother tongue as a real positive heritage, to protect and empower
Integration of language and content... and interculture ?!

11. Good practices and innovations
Integrated work of local authorities, associations and organisations at territorial level
Italian L2 teacher: a new job
In&out the classroom
Dissemination of new projects through both formal and non formal ways

12. Italian L2 courses for foreign students (different levels)
I.C. Verucchio projects
Incoming assesment of foreign students (European Framework for languages)
Italian L2 courses for foreign students (different levels)
Intercultural workshop with the class-group
Intercultural mediators (welcome, relationship with families, reading of previous experiences, …)
New project: welcome activities and first Italian learning through sports (in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University)

13. Further information about me
Previous experience as head of teachers in “commissione intercultura” (a group of teachers in charge of foreing students and intercultural projects)
Previous long experience in teaching italian L2 to adults and young migrants; committed in intercultural and youth associations; travels and co-operation
Actual president of an intercultural association working in information, education and social work with migrants

14. Bibliographical references and websites
Structures of education and training systems in Europe- Italy, 2009/2010
Organisation of the education system in Italy 2009/2010
Key data on teaching languages at school in Europe, 2008
Integrating immigrant children into schools in Europe, 2009
all from
Data about immigrant students in Italy from MIUR
Istituto Comprensivo di Verucchio website:

15. Thanks you for your attention! ayquebandida@gmail.com