Activity Planning and Coordination for Students from Abroad
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
This professional skills workshop aims to develop and strengthen specific cross-cutting skills. The abilities learned will help students through their education and enable them to acquire an initial toolkit of skills for a given professional field. These also include the general interpersonal and communication skills that are required for the world of work.
Expected learning outcomes
The professional skills workshop uses interactive and participative teaching methods to develop specific knowledge and skills in selected professional fields. This didactic approach aims to strengthen teamworking, knowledge sharing and problem-solving abilities, while also helping students to practically apply the skills and knowledge they have gained previously within a specific practical setting.
The workshop is open to a limited number of participants, enabling the organisation and monitoring of individual and group work so as to create the best possible opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and understanding gained.
Participants will gain an awareness of the workshop's underlying themes, giving them a grounding from which to form their own personal opinion on the topic at hand.
The workshop is open to a limited number of participants, enabling the organisation and monitoring of individual and group work so as to create the best possible opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and understanding gained.
Participants will gain an awareness of the workshop's underlying themes, giving them a grounding from which to form their own personal opinion on the topic at hand.
Lesson period: First week
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First week
Course syllabus
The workshop will be delivered from 17 to 21 February 2025 and will be structured as follows:
Theoretical classes — 17 and 18 February (from 10.30 am to 2.30 pm, room T4):
- introduction to the workshop;
- overview of the Italian school system, with a particular focus on the school pathways and integration process of foreign pupils in Italian schools — where the level of multilingualism is increasing;
- introduction to the Italian school legislation, and the educational and methodological aspects related to teaching foreign pupils in Italy;
- role and responsibilities of the school principal within the Italian education system, with regard to the planning and management of projects for the integration of foreign pupils.
Practical activities — 19, 20 and 21 February (from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm, "G. Pascoli" school in Sesto San Giovanni):
- seminars and meetings with the school principal, teachers and mediators on the organisation of activities to welcome foreign pupils and, more generally, on the dynamics of intercultural communication at school, which is viewed as a privileged environment to foster linguistic, cultural and social integration of foreign pupils and their families;
- structured activities whereby Language Mediation students will be introduced to the projects implemented by the school for foreign pupils;
- classroom observation (in classes that include foreign pupils);
- role-playing: participants in the workshop will be acting as tutors of a foreign pupil during a given class activity;
- wrapping up the workshop: opinions, comments and critical discussion on the experience.
The workshop as a whole aims to provide students with professional skills enabling them to design and propose projects for the integration of foreign pupils in schools. Participants will have the opportunity to enrich their academic
learning by engaging in a hands-on experience of multicultural integration and by interacting with various school professionals. At the end of the workshop, they will have a comprehensive understanding of integration processes within the Italian education system.
Theoretical classes — 17 and 18 February (from 10.30 am to 2.30 pm, room T4):
- introduction to the workshop;
- overview of the Italian school system, with a particular focus on the school pathways and integration process of foreign pupils in Italian schools — where the level of multilingualism is increasing;
- introduction to the Italian school legislation, and the educational and methodological aspects related to teaching foreign pupils in Italy;
- role and responsibilities of the school principal within the Italian education system, with regard to the planning and management of projects for the integration of foreign pupils.
Practical activities — 19, 20 and 21 February (from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm, "G. Pascoli" school in Sesto San Giovanni):
- seminars and meetings with the school principal, teachers and mediators on the organisation of activities to welcome foreign pupils and, more generally, on the dynamics of intercultural communication at school, which is viewed as a privileged environment to foster linguistic, cultural and social integration of foreign pupils and their families;
- structured activities whereby Language Mediation students will be introduced to the projects implemented by the school for foreign pupils;
- classroom observation (in classes that include foreign pupils);
- role-playing: participants in the workshop will be acting as tutors of a foreign pupil during a given class activity;
- wrapping up the workshop: opinions, comments and critical discussion on the experience.
The workshop as a whole aims to provide students with professional skills enabling them to design and propose projects for the integration of foreign pupils in schools. Participants will have the opportunity to enrich their academic
learning by engaging in a hands-on experience of multicultural integration and by interacting with various school professionals. At the end of the workshop, they will have a comprehensive understanding of integration processes within the Italian education system.
Prerequisites for admission
There are no specific requirements to attend this workshop.
Teaching methods
The workshop will take place at the University of Milan and at the "G. Pascoli" school in Sesto San Giovanni, which has been collaborating with the School of Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication of our University for
several years. Teaching methods will include:
- frontal teaching;
- practical teaching;
- structured class activities at the school;
- classroom observation (in classes with foreign pupils);
- role-playing: tutoring foreign pupils in the framework of integration projects.
several years. Teaching methods will include:
- frontal teaching;
- practical teaching;
- structured class activities at the school;
- classroom observation (in classes with foreign pupils);
- role-playing: tutoring foreign pupils in the framework of integration projects.
Teaching Resources
The study materials used in class (slides, multimedia materials and reading list) will be made available on myAriel.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Students will be assessed based on compliance with attendance requirements (min. 16 hours out of 20), participation in the workshop activities, and a role-play exercise, for which they will have to act as tutors of a foreign pupil in the
assigned class.
Assessment criteria will be active participation in the class and in the activities organised at the school.
assigned class.
Assessment criteria will be active participation in the class and in the activities organised at the school.
- University credits: 3
Professional training laboratories: 20 hours
Professor:
Cafarelli Rocco Raffaele
Shifts:
Turno
Professor:
Cafarelli Rocco RaffaeleProfessor(s)