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Convitto Nazionale Domenico Cirillo

Domenico Cirillo" is the name of a public school in Bari - South Italy -that includes a primary school a lower secondary school and an upper secondary school (for students who are 5-19 years old). The total number of students is 1286 and the teachers are 148. The families of the students that attend the school belong to the middle and upper classes and they are really active in the school. The Secondary School is specialized in scientific , classical, linguistic and musical studies and supports the implementation of CLIL methodology. Since its opening it has acquired an important role in terms of education and has had a great influence on the city of Bari. The goal of the Institute is to foster sound learning abilities and to strengthen the students' knowledge, promoting at the same time a more in-depth and advanced study of maths and physics, science , foreign languages, and classical languages with the aim to provide learners with a thorough and ongoing education. Subject teaching is complemented by projects and activities that aim at enriching the students’ personality, as well as the development of their cultural, civic and human dimension. The school provides a great number of special rooms for every kind of activity: physics, chemistry, biology and computer labs, the language and art rooms as well as gyms and football pitches and a theatre. The library contains over 2000 documents with books, dictionaries, newspapers, magazines. It is open for teachers, non-teachers and students. The school has a tradition for projects and afternoon activities that have always been popular with our students, and since the end of last school year it has been running an important school project on a “City school” which involves teachers and students to be trained in cooperation with the university and High Education organizations to take part in the Management of the city. Several classes in the secondary school are involved in projects which are aimed at fostering the students’ and teachers’ deep knowledge of the city and its cultural heritage on one side and its social and political aspects on the other side. With this background, the role of our school in the project can be content and project related. The key persons involved in the project are teachers who are well trained in innovative teaching, such as ICT based learning, PBL learning, Flipped classroom, cooperative learning. There are other teachers, especially in the Foreign language, Art and Music Department, who are well experienced and updated with innovative teaching and European projects, have been running school exchange programmes and Erasmus projects and will cooperate in the project. Several teachers from different areas will work in the implementation of the project so in case one of these persons should leave the school in the future, their colleagues already involved in the project will be able to do their work and to give instructions to teachers new to the project.

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