"School: Sustainable Offer"
S:O.S. Network was born in 2003 from strong interactions between schools, public administrations and local communities, in the field of environmental education and active citizenship.
Today: 60 schools in the province of Bergamo and 10 in the province of Milan.
More than 70.000 students aged from 3 to 19 years old attending different orders of schools: infant, primary, scuola media and high school
Representative: one Teachers and School Managers for each school form the Assembly of the network
S:O.S. cooperates with numerous public and private institutions included the university of Bergamo
Pedagogical-didactic approach:
Student protagonist of their learning-training process
Learning/teaching: cooperative and co-evolutionary processes
Educational success measured with the development of adeguate, significant and socially shared life competences in order to promote responsibile and active citizenship
Close relationship between learning and education.
Positive relationship climate to prevent dropout.
Open and active school in the living area/town
Despite 17 years of school reforms which have introduced a new cultural order and approaches ...
Constraints and delays of the Italian school system
A pedagogical-didactic model to be changed
The problem of teachers training
Search the many good practices and spread them out
Our projects are fundamental for:
- methodological innovation: Lab teaching, learning/teaching process based on real tasks, project based learning
- analysis, monitoring, documentary research on actions
Some of our projects:
- At school on the rivers
- CPL (Centro di Promozione della Legalità - legacy promotion center)
- Management of an asset confiscated from Mafia
- Sociallecito: a facebook page autonomously administred by students
At school on the rivers - CPL (Centro di Promozione della Legalità - Sociallecito
Our points of strenght: ongoing teachers training as action research, trial projects, share of best practices
TRAINING COURSES for teachers on:
• didactics and skills evalutation and assessment
• innovative methodology (also digital)
• self-assessment and improvement plans
• disciplinary didactics based on skills and competences
• factors facilitating learning processes: emphathy, motivation, self-confidence
• theatre courses for teachers
NEXT SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES (2017/18):
• at Barbiana: for a democratic school and a community which educates (28/29 Oct. 2017)
• Conference on Learning with Social Service (1 Dec. 2017)
• "When it doesn't add up", conference on innovative maths methodology (Feb. 2018)
Indipendence and freedom
How we work: choose activities, project groups, exchange and dissemination of best practices
Autonomy and empowerment of students: work in the activities, exchange experiences, provincial Meetings on Citizenship and Participation
Peer to peer and tutoring among students of different orders of schools
Teachers-coaches and students-tutors
expert in educational and learning processes;
manage positive relationships and meet the different educational needs
work in team, to develop multi and interdisciplinary approaches
evaluate, assess and self-assess
transform our schools into places of wellbeing, into a knowledge place, in an open active learning community for students, teachers and stakeholders
The schools of S:O.S. network WALK together on this street to change from down-up, WORK actively in and with the local stakeholders. ENGAGED in sharing synergies with other Italian and European networks. On this route the University of Bergamo has always been our reliable travelling COMPANION
Download the slides and full text of this paper at: www.lecito.org
VISIT OUR WEBSITE AND SEE THE PROJECTS REALIZED AND OUR ORGANIZATION: www.lecito.org
FACEBOOK PAGE: SOCIALLECITO https://www.facebook.com/Social-Lecito-847877432023737/?hc_ref=ART9jrkVSr5jP0AJrhtoEQgZKAJnoja-fOsaWiMayNZmk8G8CU5Dx-gR_clQ9jGhKjA&fref=nf
Note: the website LECITO is the container for the projects realized by the schools partners of S:O.S. network. The logo has been designed by the school for Graphic Designers "Zenale e Butinone" and means LEgacy.CItizenship.Territory.Opportunities