Technological evolution and the use of advanced digital tools play a crucial role in various aspects of our daily lives. A significant example concerns their integration into the educational context, influencing the development of skills and teaching approaches. Recently, there has been a growing…

The adoption of the transition from grading to a descriptive evaluation in primary schools, introduced by Ministerial Order 172 of 2020, represents a significant opportunity (Piscozzo & Stefanel, 2022) for teachers to reshape their assessment methods. The evaluation model proposed by current…

As part of a project on teacher professionalism, When I Teach questionnaire has been validated, aimed at exploring certain aspects of teaching and stimulating teachers and schools to reflect on them. The dimensions explored are Self-evaluation, Critical Awareness, Openness to Confrontation,…

In the Italian National teacher Training Plan (MIUR, 2016) a profile based on three main competences emerges: teaching, organization, and professionalism; acquired via individual and context level interventions. The latter has an impact on the didactic aspects in order to realize effective,…

The paper reflects on satisfaction as an evaluative measure of perceived quality; in particular, on the satisfaction with the quality of the service on the part of the secondary school teachers who passed the extraordinary competition and followed the training course to acquire the 5 ECTS credits,…

Video analysis, understood as a device for teacher training, has progressively adapted its tools to technological innovations: from analogical Microteaching to digital Videoannotation up to the current enhancement made possible by their integration into Artificial Intelligence systems. What tools…

Teacher reflective competence is a central theme in the debate of national and international pedagogical research. With a view to university teaching innovation, recent studies see the potential of the Narrative Inquiry (NI) methodological approach as good practice and an effective tool for…

Food, in its various forms and representations, plays a fundamental role in the culture of every population in the world, given its importance to the health of each individual. Healthy nutritional practice and correct eating behaviors are useful to achieve optimal growth and development of the…

The in-service training of tenured teachers is mandatory, permanent and structural (paragraph 124 of Law 107 of 2015) and it represents ethically, as well as legally, the fundamental prerequisite for the professional development, both individual and for the entire teachers’ community. For the…

The article presents a two-year trial aimed to develop reading and writing pre-requisites in kindergarten through the enhancement of metaphonological and musical activities. On the basis of scientific evidence, it is reasonable to suppose that the use of musical play may represent a promising…

In the wake of media education and research in the field of experimental pedagogy, this paper traces the regulatory stages, theories and empirical applications that are involved in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), with a focus on the inclusion of these tools in the educational…

Digital skills currently play a fundamental epidiptic role in the ability of education systems to renew themselves and actively project future generations into an increasingly medial anthropic reality within a process of evolution which globally affects the whole of society. The multifaceted…

The divergent conceptions of disability (medical model/social model) have made it difficult to grasp the innovative scope of the new models for inclusiveness adopted by the school system. The new PEI models represent a considerable opportunity for change in view of overcoming the reductive logic of…

This paper presents the results of a survey conducted with a sample of teachers attending the specialization course for special education teachers of the University of Florence, with teaching experience with pupils with autism, who participated in the administration of a questionnaire developed by…

The training of competent professionals, who in their role as general or specialized teachers, support pupils in the development of their affective-relational, cognitive and communication skills, as well as in the acquisition of autonomy, is an essential factor for the design and the management of…

Through a general introduction on the experiences of DaD (Distance Learning) and DDI (Integrated Digital Education), which involved all schools of all levels and also saw the most reluctant teachers approaching digital to the DigCompEdu European framework to understand how teachers of the 21st…

The crisis caused by the pandemic has made us understand the fragility of our educational system and how fundamental it is to start from a new pedagogical sensitivity that is able to enhance the ethics of responsibility. The introduction of the transversal teaching of civic education in the Italian…

The objective of this article is to identify the indispensable and qualifying element of inclusive practices, long in the educational and scholastic vocabulary, but made dramatically prioritized by the pandemic: the inclusive attitude of the teacher. This objective requires the rethinking and…

Teachers’ professional growth and competences development have been at the center of national and international debate for several years. Numerous European documents have contributed to strengthening and spreading the culture of continuous training and the professional growth of teachers and…

Teachers’ digital competence is one of the key elements for tackling the many and new challenges found in today schools. For this reason, it is crucial to start a reflection on the concept of Digital Pedagogy, an approach that integrates technological competencies with a profound pedagogical…

The study presents a research aimed at monitoring and analysing, through Learning Analytics (LA), the main actions that students / trainees undertake online to reflect and respond to different training needs. The analysis, which emerged from a careful and systematic reading of the data, provided…