7 febbraio 2020
The "Giornale di Vicenza" talks about the S. Freud School noting its innovative Persuasive Didactics, cooperative and laboratory approach to knowledge building.
Persuasive Didactics against school dropout
About 96 percent of 650 students, in five years, have obtained positive school results with the so-called 'persuasive didactics,' a methodology imported from the United States where it has been applied for a decade, which in fact eliminates the problem of dispersion and discomfort in 'learning: these are, in summary, the results of a focus carried out by the Sigmund Freud School in Milan, forerunner in Italy of this approach that puts teacher and learner at the center, in a dialectical relationship. The institute, founded in 1992, has always focused on technology when computers in school were really rare. Alongside touch monitors, digital whiteboards and projectors, however, it has developed a revolutionary method.
"The key point is to avoid teachers who get on the desk and instead base teaching on 'sensitive intelligence': understanding kids and giving them formative answers, learning from each other, evolving," explains director Daniele Nappo. Away with chalk and blackboards, the focus is on capturing the attention of the student - now belonging to the category of the digital native - for a longer time. And, this is the philosophy, attention and memorization can only be achieved if the teacher maintains a body language and nonverbal communication that captures the curiosity of the listener on the principle that even the best teacher must never stop learning.
To this end, cooperative laboratory teaching i.e., proceeding by problems and research by co-constructing knowledge, Jigsaw teaching (puzzles) with content fragmented in homework then reconstructed in class, and Brainstorming i.e., comparing and gathering ideas on a topic even with an improvised approach in structured work are applied.
