A description of our days in Pirano.....from Carla Ricci, English Teacher Scuola Secondaria di primo grado Piero della Francesca

PIRAN (Slovenia) September 2018

 The main reason for which I applied for Erasmus project is both the need to acquire vocational competence that could be used in everyday teaching of English and to have the opportunity to be confronted with foreign teachers coming from different parts of Europe. In this respect, the course turned out to be extremely interesting, as it allowed me to reflect on Special Needs Students Actions and cooperative learning methods that could be followed.

I really enjoyed the whole experience as a whole and the work with my colleagues there was mainly job shadowing. We visited different classes from Nursery School to the final year of the local Primary School, which correspond here to Primary+ Secondary+ first year of High Secondary School. We sang well-known songs with kids from Nursery School, told stories and watched them in their daily activities in different classes. We also talked to different teachers and School Managers in order to acquire some acknowledgement of Slovenian habits and traditions.

I taught English, too in a 7 grade which corresponds to our first year of Secondary School and there I could test their language abilities and compare to our standards. I asked the students to write a short presentation and, once at school in Italy, my students read them and wrote theirs in reply.