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I.T.G. Andrea PalladioTreviso, Italy

• PROJECT WORK FOR
• GRUNDTVIG 2 AD/HD
• OSLO, 24 -26 April 2006
• FINAL MEETING

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PARTICIPANTS

• Giuliano De Menech? Principal
• Roberta Salerno English teacher
• Francesca Da Re Italian teacher
• ( evening classes ? Sirio project for adult
  education)
• Gian Luigi Morosin English teacher
• ( evening classes ? Sirio project for adult
  education)
• Iola De Monte? project coordinator
• ( English teacher for the prison classes )
• Francesco Massimo ? aggregate member (prison
  director)

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SCHOOL YEAR 2005-2006 Sirio project for
adult education comprising the course of
land-surveyors in the Treviso prison (first two
year period)

1. enrollment number
2. home country
3. age
4. prison (judicial or penal section)
5. course attendance
6. motivations
7. starting school level
8. achieved goals
9. school drop out

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SCHOOL YEAR 2005-2006 Sirio project for
adult education for inmates course for
land-surveyors in the Treviso prison (first two
year period)

• Enrollment
• number

Enrolled inmates 14
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SCHOOL YEAR 2005-2006 Sirio project for
adult education for inmates course for
land-surveyors in the Treviso prison (first two
year period)
Ivory Coast 1
Egypt 1
Ethiopia 1
Italy 7
Morocco 1
Romania 1
Tunisia 2

• Home country

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SCHOOL YEAR 2005-2006 Sirio project for
adult education for inmates course for
land-surveyors in the Treviso prison (first two
year period)

• Age

Fromto.. number
18-25 1
26-30 3
31-35 3
36-40 5
41-50 2
gt50 0
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SCHOOL YEAR 2005-2006 Sirio project for
adult education for inmates course for
land-surveyors in the Treviso prison (first two
year period)

• PRISON
• (judicial or penal section)

judicial penal
6 8
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SCHOOL YEAR 2005-2006 Sirio project for
adult education for inmates course for
land-surveyors in the Treviso prison (first two
year period)
regular 5
discontinued 2
unattendance 7

• Course attendance

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SCHOOL YEAR 2005-2006 Sirio project for
adult education for inmates course for
land-surveyors in the Treviso prison (first two
year period)
Improve culture 4
Obtain a high school qualification 7
Acquire a rewarding experience 1
unknown 2

• motivation

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SCHOOL YEAR 2005-2006 Sirio project for
adult education for inmates course for
land-surveyors in the Treviso prison (first two
year period)
Junior high school 6
High school In Italy 2
High school Home country 6

• Starting school level

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SCHOOL YEAR 2005-2006 Sirio project for
adult education for inmates course for
land-surveyors in the Treviso prison (first two
year period)
diploma 3
credits 2

• achieved goals

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SCHOOL YEAR 2005-2006 Sirio project for
adult education for inmates course for
land-surveyors in the Treviso prison (first two
year period)
Penitentiary release 2
Moving to other prison 0
Personal giving up 0
Working needs 0
unattendance 7

• school drop out

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Teaching activity proposed in connection with
the ADHD project (as agreed during the project
meeting in Treviso in April 2005)

• Aim
• Reducing the difficulties deriving from attention
  deficit disorder both in connection with AD/HD
  symptoms and with adult learning in difficult
  situation of penitentiary system
• Class target
• The present learning situation involves a
  heterogeneous level group of students/inmates
  featuring from the absolute beginners to the
  pre-intermediate.
• On 5 students 2 are absolute beginners, 2 false
  beginners and a pre-intermediate.

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Teaching activity proposed

• Subject involved English
• Preparatory work to be developed by each
  partner country according to its own methodology
• Task/test submitted to the 5 ss of the class
• reading and comprehension of an English newspaper
  article
• summarizing , with reduction of the article to
  1/3 of its length with the use of a Personal
  Computer , to be developed without paraphrasing
  , due to the impossibility of language
  reprocessing skills on the part of the absolute
  beginners
• Time allowed 1 hour

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Results 1

• Good results for pre-intermediate students
• Difficulties in the ability to summarize the
  English article partly due to lack of competence
  in the English language on the part of the
  beginners and in particular for one student with
  attention problems submitted to medical
  treatment
• Decision to test the above student with an
  activity in Italian arranged as follows

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Activity in Italian

• Reading and comprehension of some documents
• Underlining the most important information
• Brainstorming about any idea connected to the
  topic
• Selecting the most relevant aspects detected
• Developing an outline for the production of a
  short essay
• Counterchecking of the presence of all the points
  corresponding to the outline

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Results 2

• Difficulties in underlining the key points
• Difficulties in the use of and understanding the
  submitted documents
• Lack of logical sequence in organising the ideas

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Comments

• To what extent does the tech aids help the
  students to overcome the difficulties of
  concentration/attention deficit?
• The simple use of the PC as a mechanical
  instrument can help the students to concentrate
  on the submitted task and obtain acceptable
  results ( where low level competences are
  requested).
• When higher competences (such as cohesion,
  coherence, synthesis, etc.) are requested, we
  think that the t.a. cannot produce adequate
  results in a short time. However ,our opinion is
  that through a repeated use of strictly guided
  teaching activity , also supported by a mind
  mapping software programme , some positive
  results will ensue in the long run .

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Overall considerations about the partecipation of
the Italian group in the Grundtvig 2 project

• ?Achieved results
• Project group awareness of the teaching in
  difficult contexts related to students with
  problems of concentration/attention due to mental
  uneasiness, age and disadvantaged learning
  conditions
• Transfer of the results of the experimental work
  carried out in compliance with the ADHD project
  goals to the SIRIO staff involved in adult
  education
• Involvement of the prison director and his staff
• Better organisation regarding teaching and better
  working conditions in the prison unit
• Involvement of the educational/social workers and
  psychologists appointed by the Ministry of
  Justice for the treatment of the inmates and
  their cooperation with the teachers need to cope
  with the classroom management
• Improvement of the school premises through the
  forthcoming construction of a building extension
  to be used as classrooms for the Palladio course
  of land-surveyors, sponsored by the Treviso
  association of the chartered surveyors ,
  Treviso province and our school

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Overall considerations about the experience of
the Palladio school in the European programmes
Leonardo da Vinci and Socrates

• Year 2004 Leonardo da Vinci project Spring
• (DK, IE, IS, NO, IT)
• ? acquaintance with the different European
  contexts of prison education
• ? comparison among different prison education
  systems through teachers exchange

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Overall considerations about the experience of
the Palladio school in the European programmes
Leonardo da Vinci and Socrates

• Year 2005
• ?entrance in the Grundtvig2 partnership
• ?initial approach to the ADHD problems
• ?investigation of issues and case studies related
  to the ADHD syndrome
• ?project meetings for the exchange of the
  partners experiences
• ?illustration of the project, of its aims and its
  relevance
• ?dissemination to all the actors involved in
  both institutions (school and penitentiary)

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Overall considerations about the experience of
the Palladio school in the European programmes
Leonardo da Vinci and Socrates

• Year 2006
• ?operational steps to implement the teaching
  methodologies identified as suitable to overcome
  the learning problems potentially related to
  ADHD symptoms
• ?active participation and joint action of all the
  actors involved in the school and penitentiary
  institutions
• ?organisational developments in all aspects of
  the school course in prison as follows

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Overall considerations about the partecipation of
the Italian group in the Grundtvig 2 project

• For the first time we have obtained 4-5 computers
  ( until last year the classroom was the same room
  used for family meetings and there were no
  teaching aids)
• For the first time we have obtained to use a
  television set for watching videotapes , such
  activity has been appreciated by the students
• In the classroom there has been authorization for
  use of drawing tools, (compasses and set of
  squares) essential for the technical subjects
• More involvement of the prison police and inmates
  and cooperative attitude towards the course
  (i.e. prompt roll calling)
• At the moment no students among the inmates
  attending the course have shown clear adhd
  symptoms but maybe similar ones, observed in one
  case, have been dealt with by the teacher with
  more attentive methodology

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Expected results through the Grundtvig 2 project

• For the next future
• We hope there will be
• a joint action between the teachers and the
  psychologist in charge of the inmates , in order
  to identify an early diagnosis of adhd cases
  and find appropriate educational routes to
  overcome learning problems
• a synergy among all the people involved
  (teachers, doctors, educational workers, etc) not
  only to find out suitable medical treatments but
  also to explore new educational methodologies to
  achieve positive results
• the construction of new classrooms and labs in
  order to
• -improve the teaching /learning context
• -make the inmates realize that the learning
  process is useful to revise the plans of their
  future lives under a new perspective, in view of
  their rehabilitation and re-introduction into
  the labour market with improved qualifications
  and positive ambitions
• -promote their active citizenship

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Expected results through the Grundtvig 2
project

• The European dimension of our experiences has
  greatly widened our horizons and knowledge of
  different and often better situations of European
  prison education.
• We hope there will be other future opportunities
  for further comparisons and exchanges with school
  and prison institutions in Europe