Lifelong Learning Project - School Inclusion - Preventing Early School Leaving

Catching-up activities - reviewing at the start of the year.

Gabriele Fulgoni

Tramontana & Markes

May 1996

Essay

Italian

The author describes in a very practical and detailed way some group work strategies aming to integrate, for a class group, remedial activities (especially at the beginning of the school year) needed to address some students’ difficulties, and strenghtening and development activities aimed to the rest of the class.
Among desired effects: (a) by concentrating on classroom remedial and strenghtening work, we can avoid an excessive homework load on weaker students, especially if they are at the same time engaged in other remedial activities of a more traditional nature; (b) we can avoid also a widening of the gap between stronger and weaker students, promoting a co-operating climate; (c) we can promote among teachers a collective reflection on non-frontal, non-transmissive teaching/learning strategies, especially on those strategies based on co-operative group

Paola Panico

IPSIA “Chino Chini” Borgo San Lorenzo

Teacher