BILINGUAL EDUCATION ITALY Stepping into the future of Primary School Education

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1 M.I.U.R.- Direzione Generale Ordinamenti BILINGUAL EDUCATION ITALY Stepping into the future of Primary School Education Roberta pugliese, USR Lombardia Relazioni Internazionali e Lingue Straniere

2 BEI/IBI Getting started Call for candidate schools Jan.2010: 42 applications Requirements: whole school project at least 50% of the incoming 1st classes development plan required over 5 years teacher s proficiency at least B2 level of CEFR needed

3 BEI at a glance Memorandum of understanding signed by BC, Ministry of Education and USR Lombardy in Feb 2010 The pilot will last 6 years- Sept 2009 to June schools chosen 24 first forms and 20 teachers involved in 2010/2011 and 24 being trained for the years to come

4 Long-term aims to develop: successful and motivating bilingual education experience Learning through the medium of Italian and English, without detriment to the learning of subject-matter or the command of the Italian language knowledge, attitudes & skills suitable for citizens of a global community Fruitful international links (principally Spain, UK ) a model to be transferred to other regions of Italy (good practice in teaching, learning, management, teacher development and progression to Middle School)

5 Short-term aims: Learning Science, Art, Geography, through English using content-specific lexis Reading and writing in English without detriment to L1 Learning to use English to learn Learning cooperatively

6 The SCHOOLS 1st forms BEI 1st forms Hrs x week Hours for BEI IC Como Lora Lipomo IC Ciresola, Milano IC Diaz, Milano IC Copernico,Corsico (MI) IC Via Cialdini, Meda (MB) IC Fermi,Villasanta (MB)

7 Phase Description People involved 1 Training teachers and headteachers 2 Experimentation in class Period 44 teachers Sept July first forms From Sept Monitoring the project End of school years 11 &12 4 Evaluating the whole project 5 Expansion to other regions End of

8 Phase 1 MOBILITY 8-12 March 2010: Italian teachers visit to Spanish bilingual schools

9 26-28 April 2010 Italian Headteachers visit to Spain

10 15th-18th Nov Italian leg of the exchange: Spanish headteachers and teachers

11 Phase 1 Professional Development 1. Coral George: Reading and Writing in English: the Synthetic Phonics method (2 days) 2. Margaret Locke: Linking literacy and language with Science, Art, Geography and PE in the early primary bilingual classroom (3 days) 3. USR in-service blended training for BEI (year 1) 4. Jan Beard and Liz Nairn: Authentic Progress in Reading and Writing - Alcala de Henares 5. USR in-service blended training for BEI (year 2)

12 A Few Examples of activities

13 ACTING OUT THE WATER CYCLE: The sun is hot. The sun is hot. It shines down on the sea.

14 The water evaporates, evaporates, evaporates. The water evaporates from liquid to gas- up, up, up! The wind blows the clouds. They re moving! They re moving! The wind blows the clouds. Blow wind, blow!

15 Raindrops fall. Raindrops fall. Into streams and rivers, raindrops fall!

16 Rivers flow. Rivers flow. Quickly, quickly quickly rivers flow!

17 Rivers flow. Rivers flow. Slowly, slowly into the sea.

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19 Developing literacy through story telling

20 Fixing new lexical items

21 USR Lombardia Relazioni internazionali e lingue straniere

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23 MONITORING and DOCUMENTING TOOL The teacher s LOG a weekly committment of time and energy BEI Subjects Hrs for BEI T.U Summary activities carried out in class Class Management Strong points/ Weak points Assessment Changes suggested

24 Further measures in support of BEI Comenius scholarships Mothertongue assistants 6 school kits consisting in a selection of books provided by the British Council 6 Jolly Phonics kits supplied to the 6 pilot schools Extra in-service training course offered by Trinity online course Primary Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

25 Institution MIUR USR Lombardia British Council, Italy MIUR Dir. Ordinamenti British Council, Spain British Council, Italy MIUR USR Lombardia MIUR USR Lombardia STAFF INVOLVED STEERING COMMITTEE Steering Committee Name Gisella Langé Kevin McKenzie Carmela Palumbo Teresa Reilly OTHER STAFF MEMBERS Alison Driver Enrica Dozio Roberta Pugliese

26 OUR NEXT STEPS 1. Setting up another course on linking literacy to the English-mediated subjects in mid-june Course scheduled in early Sept Liaising with British Uni and schools to offer short visits/jobshadowing experiences 4. Devising a way to get the most of the language assistants help as the No. of BEI classes increase 5. Keeping an eye on sustainability PER ASPERA AD ASTRA