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 17.5 hours     
• Format: in-person (10 hours, 4 sessions) and online (7.5 hours, 5 sessions)              
• Location: in Piedmont, Friuli Venezia Giulia, and Campania. Decentralized courses 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 activities: (a) generative, (b) replicative, (c) evaluative
• Duration: 3 sessions for a total of 6 hours
• Format: in a hybrid format
• Location: in Piedmont, Friuli Venezia Giulia, and Campania. Decentralized courses with a minimum of 20 teachers.
• Certification: 20 hours (training, self-training, experimentation)

STEP-BY-STEP PROCEDURE

1. Head teachers of primary schools may register their institutions to participate in one or both training courses, subject to prior notification to the Regional Board of Education, between June and September 2024.
2. The universities, in collaboration with their respective Regional Board of Education, will randomly select the schools that will have access to each training course: some schools will participate in the training programs, while the others will form the control group (October 2024).
3. For the selected schools, interested teachers will attend the training courses (November 2024 – March 2025), while teachers from the non-selected schools will have access to the training materials at the end of the project.
4. The universities involved in the project will evaluate the effectiveness of the two training programs, from October 2025 to April 2026.
5. The results of the project will be disseminated to schools and institutions during a final event in April 2026.