The School Institution has students from 3 to 19 years, including all levels of education (from pre-school to secondary school). The secondary school has both a technical and a human sciences curriculum. The school is located in a peculiar natural context, with a hilly and mountainous landscape. The urban fabric is characterized by a capital center with a limited population density, countered by a rural population distributed in small villages scattered throughout the municipal territory.
These historical and environmental characteristics offer opportunities for the development of educational activities related to cultural and naturalistic themes. To overcome the marginalization of the territory, the municipal administrations of the area signed a protocol of ‘integrated education and training system’.
The activity plan has as a supporting element a vertical curriculum that is realized through a path built for the students, in order to offer opportunities for active learning, according to innovative strategies that stimulates the different types of intelligence, attentive to the interactive and affective dimensions; a path in which the student can learn by doing and interacting with his companions. The continuity between all the education orders and levels is really important in our vision, in order to build an effective path, without unjustified didactic breaks and that allows to realize a progressive and continuous itinerary of learning.
In this context, there is also an important presence of foreign pupils. Therefore, over the years, the school has activated several proposals aimed at fostering the integration of foreign or second/third generation learners and their families. All the initiatives had positive outcomes, as evidenced by the good level of integration of foreign students within the classes.
