presented during the Italian National Seminar

“Dirigere le scuole in contesti multiculturali”- Manage multicultural schools

Turin, 22-24 November 2007

Valentina Bach, Manager of the United World College EU Projects Unit, represented the United World College of the Adriatic at the Seminar “Manage multicultural schools” organized by the Italian Ministry of Education and attended by 300 Italian Heads of School.
Valentina Bach presented the UnitedWorldCollege experience of teaching in multicultural classes and the possible role of the Agency for Cooperation in Secondary Education in the Italian secondary school system.

PACE monitoring phase is now in its concluding phase, after a week of intense visits to six teachers in five Italian national schools in Veneto and Emilia Romagna. “We saw examples of wonderful, imaginative student (and teacher) work inspired by the lessons created in Rijeka. When one student was asked what she would like to do in her class after the PACE project, the immediate reply was, “Another PACE project!” What greater commendation could one ask for?” writes Prof. Sandy Thomas in her report.

Here are some pictures of PACE Pilots in Italy:

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4-10 November 2007

The potential of the PACE pilot was again demonstrated- this time in Mostar and Banja Luka - in IB, Gimnazija and technical school classes. Everywhere teachers and students told a similar story, strongly endorsing the Big Ideas, core beliefs and common strategies.

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The PACE pilot is now well into the support and monitoring phase. Professor Sandy Thomas and Rita Gentile have visited UWCAD and the third High School in Vukovar, and visits to Mostar and Banja Luka are planned for next week.
The visits involve meetings with Heads of School, with individual teachers and with groups of students in addition to lesson observation and perusal of records.
“Seeing teachers on their home ground is in itself interesting, as is seeing how they have used the exemplar materials made in Rijeka in the context of their own distinctive schools.” – says Prof. Sandy Thomas in her report. “Indeed, it is a measure of the versatility of the materials that they can be so successfully adapted to such contrasting programmes. In UWCAD and in Vukovar the same exemplar materials are used in an IB diploma programme on the one hand and in a vocational programme on the other. In Vukovar teachers are using not only their own materials but also those created by other colleagues in the same Big Idea group.

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