If you are a teacher or a school principal and are interested in the project “Tackling Inequalities in Educational Outcomes”, or are already involved, here is some practical information on its implementation and timeline!
TEACHER TRAINING IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
- Objective: learning new mathematics teaching methodologies based on active and cooperative learning and the involvement of the entire class.
- Teachers: mathematics
- Classes: third grade of primary school
- Content: 3 activities on numbers for (a) counting, calculating, estimating; (b) comparing, measuring; (c) modeling, conjecturing
- Duration: 9 sessions for a total of 18 hours
- Format: in-person (10 hours, 4 sessions) and online (8 hours, 5 sessions)
- Location: decentralized courses in Piedmont with a minimum of 20 teachers
- Certification: 50 hours (training, self-training, experimentation)
TEACHER TRAINING ON IMPLICIT BIASES
- Objective: identification, understanding, and recognition of implicit biases in order to counteract their effects in school environments and teaching materials.
- Teachers: Italian and mathematics
- Classes: fourth and fifth grade of primary school
- Content: 3 workshops: (a) generative, (b) replicative, (c) evaluative
- Duration: 3 sessions for a total of 18 hours
- Format: in-person (9 hours, 3 sessions) and online (9 hours, 3 sessions)
- Location: decentralized courses in Piedmont with a minimum of 20 teachers
- Certification: 50 hours (training, self-training, experimentation)
STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURE
- School principals may register their schools for one or both workshops in coordination with the Regional Education Office (early June 2024 – end of September 2024).
- Schools that will have access to each workshop will then be randomly selected: some schools will participate in the workshop, while others will serve as the control group (October 2024).
- For schools selected to participate in the workshops, interested teachers will take part in the workshops (November 2024 – March 2025), while teachers from non-selected schools will have access to the materials at the end of the project.
- The researchers will evaluate the effectiveness of the two workshops (April 2025 – August 2025).
- The project results will be disseminated to schools and institutions (October 2025).