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Also this school year was characterized by coronavirus and distance learning, with most Italian students forced to follow lessons from home and significant losses in terms of socializing and learning.
In just over a month the lessons will end, currently in presence in most Regions, yellow rounds, and the Ministry of Education is thinking about how to provide pupils and schools with the possibility of recovering at least part of the didactic program and moments of conviviality between children.
For this, the substantial sum of 510 million euros would have been allocated with a plan that intends to deal with the “extracurricular training, recovery of basic skills, promotion of sociality and group life of students, just to name a few examples. Autonomy will be central – explains Cristina Grieco, Councilor of the Minister Bianchi for relations with Regions and local authorities – and each institution, in conjunction with the reference bodies and territory, will decline the most appropriate interventions, differentiating them in relation to the age of the children and also to the place where they are located “.
From the support decree 150 million have been made available which will allow each institution to have around 18 thousand euros to be used to set up basic courses, in language, but also in music, theater or for inclusion activities of pupils with disabilities or other needs educational.
To these must be added the over 300 million that the ministry intends to release deriving from Pon-scuola 2014-2020. In this way, the amount available to schools would rise to about 45 thousand euros per complex.
Membership by schools will be free and school staff will have no obligations, even if the school adheres to the plan. A ministerial note will arrive in the next few days.
The summer courses provided by the Ministry provide for the involvement of teachers volunteers, paid extra, and external experts. For this project, Minister Bianchi has set up a mini task force with the help of experts in the sector.Therefore, these are not real lessons, but a useful opening for the school to set up a plan of educational activities, to be carried out from June to September , which go to heal and consolidate what was lost during the school year: hospitality, socialization and recreational aspects, such as laboratory, musical, theatrical, sports activities, (re) discovery of museums and works of art art, as underlined by the Undersecretary for Education, Rossano Stone.
All the more so considering that this last month will be particularly intense for the boys: between early ballots, confirmed Invalsi tests (except in the second grade) and “thawed” failures after last year’s moratorium, a final thrilling rush awaits them. .
As for next year, Minister Patrizio Bianchi is convinced that, to avoid that next year is also characterized by DAD, “the transport node is the one to face even more decisively. With the ministers Giovannini, Gelmini and Lamorgese we have set up a permanent table to connect the transport system with the needs and rhythms of the school in view of September. We are also working on health care to define a more effective system for tracking the pandemic trend. We are working at full speed for the reopening after the summer ”.
The goal, however, is to revolutionize the entire system. “With various groups of experts, we are working on a school that emerges from the cages of the twentieth century. A inclusive school, which guarantees everyone the same opportunities. Where not only cognitive but relational skills are acquired. A school that knows how to educate to the critical ability in the use of new languages and technologies ”, he declared.
