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Becoming Good Teachers

Becoming Good Teachers

This week’s Internazionale magazine presents an article by Professor Emeritus Tullio De Mauro on school quality, a condition that can only be developed by pursuing full inclusion.

 

"All students can reach levels of international excellence if schools pursue full inclusion for 100% of students. The more students a school fights not to lose or abandon, including disabled students, the more its results shine bright.”

 

We have added a few links for further information to the article written by Professor De Mauro for the print version of the Internazionale.

 

 

 

 

L'Economist ci ripensa (The Economist Changes its Mind)

Schools

by Tullio De Mauro

Internazionale, n. 1158 - June17, 2016

 

Not the facts about which it speaks, but the fact that it speaks about it. The news becomes itself news. The Economist, which is not exactly a house organ of the international revolutionary front, dedicated its June 10 front cover and its articles to illustrating a thesis: no one is born a good teacher, but everyone can become one. And this can happen if there is a collective effort to promote the creation of good teachers. The premises behind these ideas come from the works and ideas of educators like John Hattie, Graham Brown Martin or Alfonso Molina and the experiences of  “Teaching for America” or the “Buena escuela,” but also from entire scholastic systems such as those in South Korea, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands and our elementary school.

 

All students achieve excellent results on the international panorama if schools pursue full inclusion, if they manage to accompany 100% of their students to end of their programme.  The more students a school fights not to lose or abandon, including disabled students, the more its results shine bright. This means that a scholastic system must be capable of contrasting and stamping out the weight of cultural inequalities and social origins. The decisive factor is that the quality of teachers essentially derives from the quality of knowledge and their traineeship. The Economist, which usually promotes the “private is beautiful” line of thought, now remembers this truth to the international economic-political establishment. Hooray.

 

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