1. Bologna 4 dicembre 2009 COMENIUS REGIO YES THE WORLD IN MY CLASS What an amazing galaxy! Identity throught diversity Prof.ssa Marina Cristante, ITC Ginanni RAVENNA COMENIUS REGIO: Youth Educational System

2. Bologna 4 dicembre 2009 COMENIUS REGIO YES Foreign pupils in italian regions This scheme shows a very different situation in northern Italy regions compared to southern Italy regions: foreign pupils reach 10,7% in Emilia Romagna Region

3. Bologna 4 dicembre 2009 COMENIUS REGIO YES Foreign pupils in the different school grades In the last three years the italian schools with foreign pupils rise from 60,7% to 67,1%, in particular the upper secondary schools

4. Bologna 4 dicembre 2009 COMENIUS REGIO YES foreign pupils in upper secondary schools the scheme shows that 80%of foreign pupils attend technical and vocational schools

5. Bologna 4 dicembre 2009 COMENIUS REGIO YES PLACEMENT The CENSIS 2007 Research shows the placement criteria in schools: 1 placement with same age pupils; 2 all foreign pupils are placed during the whole school year; 3 respect of all rules to welcome

6. Bologna 4 dicembre 2009 COMENIUS REGIO YES HOW TO BE PRESENT Free Specific Subjects Support Course Free Italian Language Course Individual Support Intervention Only in a few cases intercultural dimension activities are put in motion, but it would be useful to be present with: Language and culture courses of the immigration countries Language laboratory access for the foreign pupils families Informal meeting to socialize. It is not enought required the support of professionals, such as mediators, who could guide and promote the integration process

7. Bologna 4 dicembre 2009 COMENIUS REGIO YES PROFIT Both families and teachers think that the different school performance between italian and foreign pupils is only due to pupils that are placed in italian school during the school year pupils recently arriving All school problems depend on italian language comprehension and italian, history and geography are the hardest subjects In general italian teachers seem to use lab methodology to favour foreign pupil success instead of to modify the curriculum or the topics

8. Bologna 4 dicembre 2009 COMENIUS REGIO YES ESITI E ORIENTAMENTO As the Italian Minister of Education stated, at the end of the compulsory school, foreign pupils are oriented to technical and vocational courses or vocational regional courses Motivations of this choice depend on social, economic and cultural family contest more than marks, gender, possibility to set in Italy Only in few cases the choises are made after an activity organized by Local Services [1].[1] [1] Censis, Vissuti ed esiti della scolarizzazione dei minori di origine immigrata in Italia, gennaio 2008 pag.11

9. Bologna 4 dicembre 2009 COMENIUS REGIO YES Istituto Tecnico Commerciale Ginanni RAVENNA In the school year 2009/2010 Pupils in total are 1097 Foreign pupils are 159 coming from Albania 32, Romania 31, Moldava 10, Ucraina 10

10. Bologna 4 dicembre 2009 COMENIUS REGIO YES GOOD PRACTISES ITC GINANNI di RAVENNA 1 Define a welcome rule for foreign pupils with Comune di Ravenna and Casa delle Culture, to favour the school integration of youngs through meeting with mediators to help pupils, families and teachers 2 Set up a group of teachers with knowledge of intercultural topics to project and propose intercultural curricula. 3 Activate languages laboratory (levels from A1 to B2) to learn italian as a second language, to use during the school year. 4 Give the mediators an important role to welcome the new coming foreing pupils and to support foreign pupils that already attend the italian school 5 Organize and let partecipate teachers in new methodology course in Italy and under the European Scheme of Long Life Learning ; elaborate strategies and good practises usuful for other teachers 6 Realize projects involving intercultural education we want to realize a mother tongue lab to underline the importance of the culture of the foreign pupils to acquire strength identity and self-consideration, to firm competence and knowledge, to favour comprehension,social and affective development

11. Bologna 4 dicembre 2009 COMENIUS REGIO YES Ravenna Mausoleo Galla Placidia …THE SYMBOL OF 3 rd MILLENIUM SHOULD BE A CONSTELLATION, A SOCIETY BASED ON THE RESPECT OF THE VALUE OF THE CULTURAL PLURALITY THE IMAGE OF A CONSTELLATION IS ADAPT. IT REMINDS US THE LIGHT OF MANY SINGLE STARS: ALL TOGETHER THEY FORM A BEAUTIFUL CONSTELLATION BUT THEY KEEP, EACH OF THEM, AN INCOMPARABLE BEAUTY. THE NIGHT SKY BEAUTY IS IN THE COMBINATION OF THIS DIVERSITY Umberto Eco (DuemilaUno n.69)