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Initiative name: Collaboration in the drafting of inclusion training/information paths and in the planning and monitoring of inclusion paths, as part of the "school integration of foreign minors" project
Contact person: Guido Benvenuto
Collaborator: Ceyda Sensin
Description: Creation and consolidation of collaborative links between the entities that provide integration services (School, ASL RM4, Local Authorities, COMUNE E C.A.R.A.)) and families, through various aspects such as: communication, discussion, implementation and evaluation of initiatives and projects. The principles shared by the various subjects of the C.T.I. network they refer to the integration of minors in situations of handicap which must respond to the logic of "special normality" understood as a tendency towards the inclusion of the person in all contexts of community life. It is necessary to pay attention to the peculiarities of each person, to the need to promote personal-social well-being and to develop one's cognitive, affective, communicative and social potential.
Period: 22 March 2018 - 21 March 2021
contacts: guido.benvenuto@uniroma1.it

Initiative name: Dada and iPad digital teaching in the first year of lower secondary school
Contact person: Giorgio Asquini
Collaborators: Cristiana De Santis, Marta Cecalupo
Description: Research-Training Activities (Asquini, 2018) for the monitoring of an educational innovation carried out in close collaboration between researchers and teachers of the Institute. A first phase involves the collection of contextual data from the school; in the second phase the results will be shared and in the third phase the implementation of training and self-training interventions will take place.
Performance period: December 2019 - August 2021
contacts: giorgio.asquini@uniroma1.it

Initiative name: Implementation of the research-intervention project called “CoSE at School”
Contact person: Anna Di Norcia
Collaborators: Giordana Szpunar, Eleonora Cannoni
Description: The main objective of the project is to strengthen the social-emotional skills of pupils, through the training of teachers who have been prepared to carry out workshops on these topics in their classes. Opportunities have therefore been created aimed at encouraging the inclusion of girls with atypical backgrounds in classes, for example: giftedness, behavioral difficulties, emotional difficulties, different ethnic origins.
Period: 4 meetings between 2019 and 2021
contacts:anna.dinorcia@uniroma1.it

Name of the initiative: Training activities envisaged in the three-year plan for teacher training dedicated to disabilities
Contact person: Guido Benvenuto
Collaborator: Giuseppe Ferrara
Description: Inter-institutional connection between school and university skills, which sees in the DPPSS professionals who carry out training and information activities on disabilities, information technologies and communication; and operates with a multidisciplinary team pursuing and implementing the following main objectives and services:
Conception, implementation and management of training courses for operators, teachers and families including on individual disabilities and/or BES and/or disorders, making use of the voluntary collaboration of external experts;
Teaching assistance to help schools use technologies effectively in all activities by evaluating the right aids, personalizing assignments and supporting teaching;
Inclusive teaching design connected to the most innovative teaching methodologies;
Provide technical assistance toschools in order to solve the most common problems of functioning and adaptation of technologies to the needs of individual users and guarantee schools’ timely intervention by monitoring the use of the equipment identified for the individual student.
Period: 30 November 2017 - 29 November 2020
contacts: guido.benvenuto@uniroma1.it

Name of the initiative: Training courses for coordinators of specialized teachers for the support and implementation of the Polo Support project
Contact person: Guido Benvenuto
Description: The project activity involves guiding the support teachers of the schools involved to increase their level of school inclusiveness through in-depth analysis of possible organizational models relating to the human and material resources available and, above all, the development of modern teaching methodologies. It is, therefore, a contribution to the development of strategies and use of tools useful for improving the real quality of school integration of all SEN pupils, with a view to their full social integration and a good quality of life. From this perspective, the starting point will be the construction of our functional diagnosis model, based on the ICF, which is the real functional representation of the various educational and didactic processes, the basis for the creation of an effective PEI/PDP that is capable, above all, of involving, in a collaborative way, all the operators involved (curriculum teachers, classmates and schoolmates, family, social/health workers, etc.).
Period: 17 May 2017 - 16 May 2020
contacts: guido.benvenuto@uniroma1.it

Initiative name: Carrying out research activities for the monitoring and analysis of psycho-pedagogical processes in different classes and learning evaluation methods
Contact person: Guido Benvenuto
Collaborator: Mara Marini
Description: The objective of the agreement is to develop a system for monitoring and analyzing psychosocial processes in classrooms. In particular, the project aims to understand the role of the school climate (understood as that set of relationships that characterize the students' school experience, such as the relationships between student-family, student-teachers, students-peers of school) in the development trajectories of young people. The activities are linked to the collection of data, their analysis and finally their return. The study will in fact be conducted through a questionnaire administered to the participating students which will allow their academic and social well-being to be monitored. During the course of the activities, in relation to their evolution, updates to the detailed planning of the activity program may be agreed between the scientific managers of the agreement, always within the limits of the same. The project includes periodic meetings to report the results between researchers, managers and teachers of the school and other subjects involved in the research agreed between the scientific managers.
Period of implementation: 13 January 2020 - 12 January 2023
contacts:guido.benvenuto@uniroma1.it

Initiative name: Research/training activity on the topic of classroom discussion as a teaching strategy
Contact person: Patrizia Sposetti
Collaborator: Giordana Szpunar
Description: The objective is the development and testing of tools for reconnaissance, observation and analysis of classroom discussions, for the pursuit of the following objectives: training teachers in the use of classroom discussion as a teaching strategy. Discussion observation tools will be used as a teaching tool, building and reviewing an observation grid. The continuation of the health emergency for the academic year 2021/2022 allowed the creation of only remote meetings with a small group of teachers.
Performance period: 22 April 2021 - 21 April 2022
contacts: patrizia.sposetti@uniroma1.it

Initiative name: Collaboration for research activities aimed at monitoring and analyzing psycho-pedagogical processes in classes that will experiment with Debate as an innovative teaching methodology
Contact person: Guido Benvenuto
Collaborator: Roberta Camarda
Description: The project involves a case study focused on classes of the IC Nino Rota, divided into 2 groups. The control group will receive the same training and information as the experimental group but will not practice Debate as the methodology of choice for teaching civic education and will not be required to participate in the National Spring Championship which will take place in the academic year. s. 21/22. The experimental group will adopt Debate as a methodology for teaching Civic Education in coherence with the Institute's Civic Education curriculum, will adopt the Debater code of ethics and will apply the evaluation grid provided for by the World School Debate protocol, only to then opt for assessment tools defined collectively, where present. This will presumably allow the classes of the experimental group to form one or two teams, also in rotation with a view to inclusion, which will participate in the National Spring Championship. Periodic meetings are envisaged to report the results between researchers, the school manager and teachers and other subjects involved in the research agreed upon by the scientific managers.
Performance period: 18 June 2021 - 17 June 2024
contacts:guido.benvenuto@uniroma1.it

Initiative name: The sexuality of children and adolescents: knowing the stages of their development and supporting them in their emotional growth
Contact person: Roberto Baiocco
Description: Training on sexuality for children and adolescents: knowing the stages of their development and supporting them in their emotional growth
Period: 1 meeting on 10/20/2022
contacts: roberto.baiocco@uniroma1.it

Initiative name: Credit Seminar. Sexual orientations and gender identity.
Contact person: Roberto Baiocco
Collaborator: Jessica Pistella
Description: Credit seminar on sexual orientations and gender identities
Performance period: 25/26-11-2022
contacts: roberto.baiocco@uniroma1.it

Initiative name: "Let's walk together": orient yourself among the orientations. A journey into bisexuality
Contact person: Roberto Baiocco
Description: Study day organized by Generali on the topic of sexual orientations and gender identities
Performance period: 04/10/2022
contacts:roberto.baiocco@uniroma1.it

Initiative name: Unaccompanied Foreign Minors. Guidelines and materials, tools and strategies to strengthen inclusion processes in the school system, the training and cultural and professional growth of teachers, educational/pedagogical and governance figures, the network and the progress of the territory(s)
Contact person: Laura Cerrocchi
Description: The work is part of the Linguistic Literacy and Access to Education Project for MSNA-ALI MSNA 2 VOLO, presented by the CPIA 2 Metropolitan of Bologna (network leader within the school system; project manager Dr. Emilio Porcaro), with the scientific support of the Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes of Sapienza University of Rome (manager for project monitoring Prof. Laura Cerrocchi), and the winner at national level, based on the emergency measures of the FAMI 2014 call -2020 "for the promotion of the role of the school in the process of inclusion of unaccompanied minors (for whom there is a right and duty to compulsory education), facilitating the path towards full integration into Italian society".
Period of implementation: 2022-2023
contacts:laura.cerrocchi@uniroma1.it

Initiative name: Implementation of Problem Based Learning: A Research-Training path
Contact person: Giorgio Asquini
Collaborator: Giulia Vincenti
Description: Research-Training Activities (Asquini, 2018) for the monitoring of an educational innovation carried out in close collaboration between researchers and teachers of the Institute. First phase of collection of school contextual data; second phase sharing of results; third phase implementation of training and self-training interventions.
Period of implementation: February 2023 – 31 August 2023
contacts:giorgio.asquini@uniroma1.it

Initiative name: The impact of the DADA model on schools: teacher motivation, teaching practices, learning environments and student performance
Contact person: Giorgio Asquini
Description: Research-Training Activities (Asquini, 2018) for the monitoring of an educational innovation carried out in close collaboration between researchers and teachers of the Institute. The first phase will be to collect contextual data from the school; a second phase will focus on sharing the results; the third and final phase will be focused on the implementation of training and self-training interventions.
Period of implementation: February 2023 – 31 August 2023
contacts:giorgio.asquini@uniroma1.it

Initiative name: WEBINAR: “Alias Careers between University and School”
Contact person: Roberto Baiocco
Description: WEBINAR held online and organized by SIGIS in order to spread knowledge regarding Alias Careers between University and School
Period: one meeting on 10 January 2023
contacts:roberto.baiocco@uniroma1.it