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Innovation and Tradition for Excellent Result
"San Benedetto" Junior High School School - Rome

summary of our school's plan: profile- purposes- objectives - activities- search, verification and   autoevaluation

PROFILE OF  THE INSTITUTE

(the data are taken from the direct observation and from researches achieved with specific instruments of analysis).

Territory and population

Nearly each pupil lives in "Centocelle" or "Alessandrino" quarter. This area is recently growing from the economic and cultural point of view, but there are old and recent situations of serious uneasiness, of various kind and origin.

It is increasing the number of youths who are related to families of medium - high cultural level. From year to year it’s increasing also the number of boys and girls coming from foreign countries (extra communitarian countries like China, Kossovo, Turkey (Kurdistan), Albania, South-America, Tunisia and Morocco, etc), some of them has difficulty to inserte themselves in our comunity, especially owing to the insufficient mastery of Italian language.

The scholastic population is, consequently, much heterogenous; the scale of values and the expectations of the families in comparisons with the school are much differentiated too.

The school has a central seat in Sesami Street, 20, with the head-master’s study and the secretariat, and another seat in Faggi Street, 151.

In both of them: the classrooms are wide and luminous; there are gymnasium, rooms for the catering, library, linguistic laboratory, scientific laboratory, multimedial laboratory, laboratory for musical activities, medical department.

The central seat has a little park with sports ground, a great entrance hall with a theater, a kitchen laboratory, a ceramic laboratory with an oven for pottery. The other seat has a great courtyard, a laboratory of little handicraft, a ceramic laboratory without oven.

• to accept the choices of the families in relation to the various modules of timetable:
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  T.N. (lessons only on the morning – 8.30/13.30), T.P. (lessons on the morning and on the afternoon too, three time a week), musical experimentation (course in which the pupils learn also to play piano other guitar other flute), experimentation of two languages (course in which the pupils learn two foreign languages: English and French)
  Note: On Saturday there are the normal lessons from 8,30 to 13,30. The five-day week was not possible in Italian school. From last year is it allowed, but not very widespread.

• to guide the choices of the activities which the school organizes in the afternoon (at the end of the time-school) or in particular moment of the year during the normal timetable with the objective to favour different experiences of the students in the three years
• to favour the collaboration of the parents to some activities of the school, in the respect of the different roles and on the base of specific competences
• to expand, according to precise rules, to the families of the pupils or also to member of the local comunity the possibility of using some structures of the scool like gymnasium, library, laboratories, etc.
• to put in practice a more rational distribution of the course and of the classes between the two seats

THE PURPOSES

• to let the students and their parents live positively the school

• to promote a clime of serenity and collaboration in the school and with the territory

• to let the school begin a center of culture, opened to the quarter

• to reach totally the educational objectives and the didactic objectives

• CONSCIENCE OF HIMSELF

acquaintance of the own abilities, motivation to the choices, acquisition of autonomy and of sense of responsibility

• SOCIALIZATION

solidarity towards the companions, constructive collaboration, attention and sensitivenes to the problems of the contemporary world, development of one civic conscience

DIDACTIC OBJECTIVES

• ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND and TO COMMUNICATE
• ACQUISITION OF A COHERENT METHOD OF WORK
• SYNTHESIS and ANALYSIS ABILITY
• CRITICAL and APPRAISAL ABILITY
• ACQUISITION OF CONTENT OF THE SUBJECTS

THE LABORATORIES

• LIBRARY
• CERAMIC LABORATORY
• COOKING LABORATORY
• LABORATORY OF LITTLE HANDICRAFT
• MULTIMEDIAL LABORATORY
• LINGUISTIC LABORATORY
• MUSICAL LABORATORY
• SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY
• THEATRAL LABORATORY
• AUDIOVISUAL CLASSROOM
• GYMNASIUM EQUIPPED FOR: Athletics; Gymnastics; Callisthenics; Volley-ball; Basketball; Tennis; Football

ACTIVITIES

• vocational guidance meant like

• education to the conscience of themselves, of own attitudes and potentiality, in function of the development of the same attitudes and potentiality
• instrument of control of the scholastic drop-out
• instrument of motivation to complete the obligatory school and to pursue the studies

• intercultural and integration education
• environmental education
• education to multimedial meant like a mean and not like an aim
• didactic in laboratories
• development of the learning of foreign languages
• development of the musical culture

The activieties are divided into:

1. fundamental activities in curricular timetable:

• acquisition of the basis of knowledge
• welcome and continuity with the other order of school
• recovery, support and development of knowledges/skills
• italian language for foreigners
• vocational guidance
• education to the emergency (law 626)
• musical experimentation (in the relative course)
• experimentation of learning two foreign languages (in the relative course)
• education to the health (sanitary and sexual education)
• intercultural education
• environmental education
• education to the legality
• education to the rule of the road
• sports activities
• festivities and moments of meeting
• library and laboratory of reading
• guided visits and travels of instruction

1. Integrative activities mostly in curricular timetable (programmed from the council of teachers of every class)

• Laboratory of little handicraft
• Ceramic laboratory
• Cineforum
• Laboratory of cooking
• Theatral laboratory
• Modelling
• Use of computer in didactics
• Latin language
• First aid

1. Optional and additional activities out of the timetable

realized from staff of school:

• To practice sports
• Laboratory of ceramic
• Course of recovery of knowledges and skills
• Course of Latin language
• Cineforum
• Laboratory of cooking
• Use of computer in didactics

• Course for learning the game of chess
• Course of karate
• Chorus of the school
• Conversation in english language
• Course of composition and electronic music
• Lessons of musical instrument
• Orchestra of the school

PROCEDURES OF SEARCH, VERIFICATION AND AUTOEVALUATION

The teachers of the school have formulated and elaborated several instruments for the analysis of the environmental situation and the levels of departure of the pupils. These data are the base of the planning of the school.

Besides the teachers consider very important the intermediate survey: this is fundamental to operate in the course of the year and realize opportune activities of recovery, support and development of knowledges/skills; it’s also important realize didactic interventions to favor the motivation, unavoidable element of the formative activities.

Final analysis: the results are used to verify the job and they are the base to reflect for introducing modifications in the planning.

Ambit of the analysis

• Level of satisfaction of the family of the students in relation to the operation of the school: service catering, headship, didactic activities, laboratories, use of material
• Assiduousness to school and preparation of the teachers
• Safety and level of maintenance of the spaces and structures
• Effectiveness of the formative action
• Final situation of the single pupils from the educational point of view
• Final situation of the entire scholastic population from the educational point of view
• Result of the formative activities in relation to: scholastic drop-out, recovery of knowledges and skills in the disadvantaged pupils, formative enrichments, overcoming of the social and cultural difficulties