Adria

Dear Colleagues, Dear Students,

 

3 years ago Ivo and I were wondering whether our students might benefit from school education and feel pleasure from it at the same time. We had noticed that subjects in general, and languages especially, were best learnt when motivation and curiosity are involved.

We got to know that some schools in the Veneto, our region, were experimenting a new approach to teaching and learning called CLIL, so we went deeper inside it.

CLIL is an acronym for Content and Language Integrated Learning: it suggests a new education modality through the teaching of a non-linguistic subject together with a linguistic subject.

Several advantages would come from such an approach, both for students and for teachers: learning philosophy in English, for example, or Geography in French, Physics in German, is surely challenging and gives students the chance to learn two subjects in the same time.

Then, we decided to start up with an adventure which was absolutely new to this school: Teaching and learning in CLIL modality.

So far, Ivo and I have developed several CLIL modules where mainly History, Philosophy and English are involved: one was on the English Industrial Revolution, one on Aristotle, one on the Cold War, and finally one on Giordano Bruno and Galileo Galilei which is linked to our Comenius on Freedom of thought.

The performance you are going to watch is the final step of that CLIL module.

It has been completely written by the students, after having read texts and documents regarding Giordano Bruno’s and Galileo’s thoughts. Moreover, some of the students have read the play on Galileo’s life written by Bertolt Brecht.

It had not been conceived in order to be performed in public but just in the secret of our classroom, so I hope you will not notice some embarrassment from girls who are, of course, not actresses.

So now, please enjoy their work.