12 novembre 2021
On November 12, 2021, the national newspaper "Il Giorno" published in the editorial "Piazza Lombardia, the challenges beyond Covid" the usual article by Dr. Daniele Nappo, Legal Representative of the S. Freud Private School.
The author, who has a long experience both as a sociologist and as a pedagogue, underlines how frontal teaching is now obsolete, boring and devoid of significant results. On the contrary, it is necessary to encourage the learning given by the social interaction between students. In fact, many researches show that pupils learn more easily if actively and emotionally stimulated. The action of the teacher is essential, who must be able to create an individualized action: knowing how to motivate and interest one's pupils is essential to obtain good results.
LESSONS IN CLASS AND INDIVIDUAL ACTION
“Overcoming the limit between the hours of lessons at school, those of home study, real life and digital life. This is - in my long experience as a sociologist and pedagogue - a topic of real relevance today also because the new students belong to the generation of digital natives. Much research shows that adolescents learn more from classroom experience. Teaching in many schools is instead still frontal: it is thought to be an effective method, perhaps by letting the student read and follow the teacher's comment. This teaching no longer makes sense, gives no results and finally bores. The best learning, on the other hand, is certainly done in a group: it is social interaction, a really way to learn. A class involved in the lesson activates emotional and motivational elements that certainly favor cognitive abilities. Digital teaching certainly solves the problems of demotivation, lack of interest and performance and significantly increases attention span.
What is proposed is not a delimited method, on the contrary it requires the teacher's methodology and competence: the use of skills that make it possible to adapt to the individual characteristics of each girl and boy. Individualized action is central: it is there that the student assimilates and is not passive. An action that in addition to being motivational is verifiable in the act of learning. There is no doubt that the results are better and stimulating the student is the winning methodological attitude. Often teachers are the ones who complain that they are not being listened to while teaching. The answer is knowing how to interest and motivate by changing the perspective. In short, to get the result you need to organize active lessons. The goal is action: meetings, experiences, workshops, research, comparisons are the basis of this didactic preparation, and the experiential path is enriched in the group. No less important is the phase of active reworking of the exercises, the operation, the circumstance of reusing in different contexts and moments what has been learned and which guarantees having learned. In this innovative logic, the teaching system takes place in a dynamic that supports the overcoming of dependence to leave room for the perspective of autonomy, so as not to remain rooted in mnemonic repetition alone. This is a strategic step. The school is a community that must have shared goals. Education and respect, combined with a sense of duty certainly cannot be parceled out or compartmentalized. "
