TALES JOIN PEOPLES, Italy

Submission by Laura Saviori

Organisation:

Fondazione Istituto Morcelliano

CFP G. ZANARDELLI U.O. DI CHIARI

Brescia Italy

Type: Prevention

Focus: Engagement

Duration: Longer

In our area there are people from all over the world due to a great immigration. In our School we can count almost 25 nationalities and we can see this situation in every level of school.Together with the association Librellule, who promote the reading of books in different languages since the primary school,we decided to create a project to involve in a non formal activity some students who had school demotivation feelings and were not self-confidence. The outcomes we wanted to obtain were:

- Pupils re-motivation by peer education and mentoring activities

- Dialogue among different levels of school

- Team building

- To improve communication skills

- To improve tolerance, inclusion and aknowledges of other cultures by reading and listening traditional tales, lullaby and so on in the original tongues.

Stages.

Planning of activities and choice of the students to involve in the project.

Meeting with the students and LE LIBRELLULE in CFP “G. ZANARDELLI” U.O. DI CHIARI.

Meeting with the students and LE LIBRELLULE in the local library.

Teachers and students: attempts of reading and speaking.

1st final event. Meeting between our students and younger students in the local library. Reading and speaking in Hindi, Punjabi, Albanian, Kosovar and Italian.

2nd final event. Meeting between our students and younger students in the local library. Reading and speaking in Hindi, Punjabi, Albanian, Kosovar and Italian.

Follow up with evaluation of all the activities.

Outcomes.

Improve self-confidence

Study and School Re-motivation

Communication among different school levels

Interaction with Authorities, associations and school

Improve communication skills

Team building

Improve Inclusion and tolerance

Improve cultural knowledge

Teachers team building

Teachers and Students team building

Good practices transfer

TIP KA2 Dissemination

Case study

This practice helped the students involved to recognize their own roots, improved motivation in their studies and a better inclusion. This group is still studying at school.

Another disavantaged group of students was involved in realizing painting for the story written b y the t eacher.