Italian Teachers Day, 2nd March 2024

The fifth Italian Teachers Day was held on Saturday 2nd March 2024 at Francis Holland School, Regents Park. It was put on in association with the British Council and sponsored by The Society for Italian Studies, La scuola italiana a Londra and ISMLA. The keynote speaker was Bernardette Holmes (National Director, National Consortium for Language Education).

Below you will find the presentations used by our speakers (and video recordings of the main contributions). A list of talks and speakers can be found here.

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General

• Introduction: British Council
  
• Keynote Speech: Bernardette Holmes (Video)
• Martina Zucca - Introducing Italian, a case study
  
• MAECI funding for schools

Motivating students

• The Estorick Collection
• A letter exchange with Macerata
  

Teaching ideas

• Teaching 'dalla dittatura alla democrazia (Selena Daly) (Presentation Video)
  
• Teaching the north-south divide (Ruth Glynn and Peter Langdale)(Presentation Video)
  
• Teaching KS3 and KS4 (Emma Obertelli) (Presentation Video)
  • Ideas for teaching KS3 and KS4
  • Cognates and patterns in Italian
    
  • Carnevale (yr9)
  • NCELP-style phonics materials

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Working with Universities

• RHUL (Carlotta Paltrinieri) (1) (2)
• University of Bristol and Presdales School (Ruth Glynn and Lucy Evenden)
• University of Reading (Chiara Ciarlo
• University College London (Martina Alessandro)
  
• University of Edinburgh (Emanuela Patti)