Activity Planning and Coordination for Students from Abroad
A.Y. 2025/2026
Learning objectives
This professional skills workshop aims to develop and strengthen specific cross-cutting skills. The abilities learned will help students through their education and enable them to acquire an initial toolkit of skills for a given professional field. These also include the general interpersonal and communication skills that are required for the world of work.
Expected learning outcomes
The professional skills workshop uses interactive and participative teaching methods to develop specific knowledge and skills in selected professional fields. This didactic approach aims to strengthen teamworking, knowledge sharing and problem-solving abilities, while also helping students to practically apply the skills and knowledge they have gained previously within a specific practical setting.
The workshop is open to a limited number of participants, enabling the organisation and monitoring of individual and group work so as to create the best possible opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and understanding gained.
Participants will gain an awareness of the workshop's underlying themes, giving them a grounding from which to form their own personal opinion on the topic at hand.
The workshop is open to a limited number of participants, enabling the organisation and monitoring of individual and group work so as to create the best possible opportunities for students to apply their knowledge and understanding gained.
Participants will gain an awareness of the workshop's underlying themes, giving them a grounding from which to form their own personal opinion on the topic at hand.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The workshop will be organised as follows:
Theoretical activities:
- Introduction to the workshop.
- Overview of the Italian school system, with particular attention to the methods and stages of integration and the educational path of foreign pupils in Italian schools, characterised by increasing multilingualism among pupils;
- Introduction to school regulations, school legislation and methodological-didactic aspects relating to teaching foreign pupils in our country;
- Knowledge of the role and functions of the headteacher in the Italian education system in planning and managing the integration of foreign pupils.
Practical activities:
- Conferences and meetings with the head teacher, teachers, professors and mediators at primary schools on the organisation of reception practices for foreign pupils and, in general, on the dynamics of intercultural communication in schools, understood as a privileged context for linguistic, cultural and social integration for foreign pupils and their families; - Structured activities during which university students attend presentations by experts on specific projects for foreign pupils at the school;
- Participation as observers in lessons with foreign pupils;
- Practical application: guided teaching simulation through the assignment of a task with the support of foreign pupils during a class lesson, acting as facilitators (role-play).
- Workshop assessment: contributions, comments and critical discussion of the experience.
The workshop as a whole is aimed at acquiring specific professional skills that will then enable students to develop and propose projects for the integration of foreign pupils to educational institutions. By enriching their curriculum through field experience, experimenting with multicultural integration practices and interacting with the various professionals working in the school, students will have acquired a comprehensive overview of the integration processes.
Timetable
16 and 17 February (from 10.30 am to 2.30 pm, room T3):
18, 19 and 20 February (from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm, "G. Pascoli" school in Sesto San Giovanni):
Theoretical activities:
- Introduction to the workshop.
- Overview of the Italian school system, with particular attention to the methods and stages of integration and the educational path of foreign pupils in Italian schools, characterised by increasing multilingualism among pupils;
- Introduction to school regulations, school legislation and methodological-didactic aspects relating to teaching foreign pupils in our country;
- Knowledge of the role and functions of the headteacher in the Italian education system in planning and managing the integration of foreign pupils.
Practical activities:
- Conferences and meetings with the head teacher, teachers, professors and mediators at primary schools on the organisation of reception practices for foreign pupils and, in general, on the dynamics of intercultural communication in schools, understood as a privileged context for linguistic, cultural and social integration for foreign pupils and their families; - Structured activities during which university students attend presentations by experts on specific projects for foreign pupils at the school;
- Participation as observers in lessons with foreign pupils;
- Practical application: guided teaching simulation through the assignment of a task with the support of foreign pupils during a class lesson, acting as facilitators (role-play).
- Workshop assessment: contributions, comments and critical discussion of the experience.
The workshop as a whole is aimed at acquiring specific professional skills that will then enable students to develop and propose projects for the integration of foreign pupils to educational institutions. By enriching their curriculum through field experience, experimenting with multicultural integration practices and interacting with the various professionals working in the school, students will have acquired a comprehensive overview of the integration processes.
Timetable
16 and 17 February (from 10.30 am to 2.30 pm, room T3):
18, 19 and 20 February (from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm, "G. Pascoli" school in Sesto San Giovanni):
Prerequisites for admission
There are no specific requirements to attend this workshop.
Teaching methods
The workshop will take place at the University of Milan and at the "G. Pascoli" school in Sesto San Giovanni, which has been collaborating with the School of Language Mediation and Intercultural Communication of our University for
several years. Teaching methods will include:
- frontal teaching;
several years. Teaching methods will include:
- frontal teaching;
Teaching Resources
The study materials used in class (slides, multimedia materials and reading list) will be made available on myAriel.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Students will be assessed based on compliance with attendance requirements (min. 16 hours out of 20), participation in the workshop activities, and a role-play exercise, for which they will have to act as tutors of a foreign pupil in the
assigned class.
Assessment criteria will be active participation in the class and in the activities organised at the school.
assigned class.
Assessment criteria will be active participation in the class and in the activities organised at the school.
Professor(s)