Beyond the classroom: reviewing the alternative week at Vittoria High School

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Ivano Leccia e Silvia Campagnoli

The European High School has concluded its period dedicated to unconventional teaching: a suspension of traditional lessons that made way for workshops, meetings with experts and moments of co-management. The students' assessment paints a positive picture, with strong appreciation for inclusive methodologies that value creativity, teamwork and time management.

The absolute successes: poetry and music

Two initiatives left their mark for their originality and engagement:

Exhibition poetry

A poetry workshop in English culminating in the staging of an exhibition.

Music Lab

The most popular project overall, which saw students transform themselves into authors and performers of original rap songs.

The classes expressed their desire for an increasingly interactive school:

First year classes

There was great enthusiasm for the STEM astronomy workshop and the "Libriamoci" project. The initiative on the linguistic interaction of Romance languages, in collaboration with Unito, was also very popular, made unique by the use of three-dimensional viewers.

Second year classes and 3 ACD

The writer Voltolini won over readers, while the "Europe at School" meeting provided useful information on the topic of student mobility in the European Union.

Third year classes

Unanimous opinion on the civic value of the meeting with the justice of the peace on the rights and duties of minors. The courses on gender equality, communication and the STEM workshop dedicated to nutrition were also appreciated.

A proposal for the future: music as wellbeing

At the end of this experience, the students made a proposal: to permanently include a space dedicated to music in the school curriculum. According to the students, this discipline represents:

'the most inclusive subject, capable of reducing school anxiety and promoting wellbeing in the classroom'.