5th trip: ITALY - About Meeting

The Comenius project 2009/2011 has proved a great experience in our school under several aspects, even because it has been our first Comenius opportunity!
Above all, it has favoured innovations and a real constructive effort mainly for what concerns daily teaching: thanks to the activation of CLIL strategies which, for once, have brought to real achievements, not just to experimental forms of interdisciplinary work. The slides containing the study topics for each mobility have been elaborated thanks to a synergy between teachers of different subjects: science, religion, history, computing science and English together with the students involved in turn into the different occasions of mobility or even with the whole class interaction with foreign teachers: working in team around same topics with foreign colleagues has provided a useful overview upon different perspectives, educational systems and operating teaching strategies.

Students’ motivation and involvement, especially in using English not just as a mere school subject, though as a real means to communicate between hosts and guests and, what is more, to deal with different habits and learn about new realities and cultures use of technology and improved skills in multimedia actions taken to arrange every mobility at the best, with enthusiasm and a true feeling of cooperation and participation tourism and sightseeing:the students and the teachers involved in any mobility have lived great moments on visiting lot of interesting and fascinating places. They reported their emotions, memories, criticism about cities, towns and sites they had the opportunity to see. They won’t forget.

Actions taken in order to welcome foreign partners when being their hosts in our Country. That has really proved the highlight of the whole experience, with the involvement of several components and resources: students, teachers, families, scholastic institution, social community, territory, mass- media. Each contributed almost spontaneously and, above all, no profit, to the success of the event with enthusiasm and a high degree of awareness and appreciation for the cultural, anthropological, social and educational values brought in by this Comenius experience, despite long tiring hours of work required by the organization!

Impact and feedback: in the past, our territory and our students’ families had shown rather unwilling with respect to cultural exchanges, especially in the presence of reception activities.

Now we can say the Comenius project 2009/2011
Nutrition through the time
contributed to a concrete reduction of cultural barriers by favoring the share of international cooperation and the feeling Europe can get closer through integration and friendship.