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" Internet makes it better, "says Francesco Tonucci
Agustin Lanusse
"We need children to save our schools," said Tonucci, Bachelor of Education in Milan researcher, illustrator and author of Through the eyes of children, the city of children and when children say Basta!, among other books that have left their mark on teachers and parents. Tonucci arrived in Argentina on the 15th. Once, invited by the governor of Santa Fe, Hermes Binner, who defined it as "a luxury of ruling."
He spoke to the Nation on what really matters when it comes to train the younger ones and left many lessons, many teachers would score to start from next school year.
suggested, first, that teachers learn to listen to what children say, they are based on the knowledge they bring from their childhood experiences to begin to teach. "We must not consider adults as owners of the truth announced from a stage," he said.
recommended that "schools are beautiful, with gardens, orchards, where kids can play and hang out and not with huge patios and game uniforms not suggest anything other than explosive discharge for children overstretched."
And teachers do not fill with content to their students, but to listen to what they already know, and to propose interesting methods to discuss the knowledge they bring from their homes, the Internet, television documentaries. "What duties are finished! The school knows not have the right to fill the lives of children. Give them time to play. And much, "is part of the decalogue.
soft-spoken and sharp thinking, Tonucci conveys the image of a parent, a grandparent, a teacher who learned to see life from the perspective of children. And it crosses the world crying out for politicians and leaders to respect the voice of children.
"The school should take over bases cultural rights of children. Before you teach content, consideration should itself as a place that offers a rich proposal: a pleasant space where you listen to music during breaks, which is awash in art, where kids read to for fifteen minutes books cults to make contact with the thrill of reading. Children are not empty bags to be "complete" because they know nothing. Teachers must value knowledge, every little family history brings six years.
"Actually, the knowledge already in our midst: documentaries, online in books. The school should be taught using a scientific method. I do not believe in the dogmatic stance of the teacher who has the knowledge and transmits it from a platform or a blackboard while students (those who know nothing), record and listen to dumb and boring. The child learns to shut up and shut up forever. Lost curiosity and critical attitude.
"I guess classrooms without desks, with tables around which sit everyone: students and teachers. And where supporters together in the center, their knowledge, they are contradictory, questions and advance in the search truth. Which is not unique and not moving.
-El of a facilitator, an adult who will listen and suggest ways and interesting learning experiences. Generally small are not used to sharing their opinions, to say what they dislike. Teachers should have an attitude of curiosity about what students know and want. I would ask teachers to invite children to bring their world inside the school, enabling them to bring their marbles, their pets, everything that makes your child's life. And that together we go out and explore the outdoors.
"Because proposes useless knowledge that have nothing to do with the world surrounding the child. And because they are bored. Today there is no need to study history of their ancestors, but the present. You have to ask the students to connect with his family micro-history, history of their neighborhood. To bring the newspaper into the classroom and study on the basis of issues that have to do with the here and now. This will help interested then by distant cultures and contact with them.
-The school should not compete with much richer and instruments capable. You should not think that their role is to teach things. This makes better TV or Internet. The school must be the place where you learn to manage and make good use of this technology, which convey a working method and scientific research, fosters the critical knowledge and learn cooperation and teamwork.
- In Italy we call this phenomenon "full-time schools." The question that comes to me is: full of what? This is the question. The school is taking on a role too absorbed in the lives of children. Must not encroach upon his time. Homework, for example, has no educational value. Does not serve to deepen and to retrieve knowledge. Give them time to children. The Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes them those two rights: to instruct and play. We should defend the right to play to consider it a duty.
"The mission of the school and is not to teach things. That makes better TV or Internet. "
definition called to arouse much controversy, is the renowned Italian teacher Francesco Tonucci. But if the school did not have to teach, what is your mission? "It must be the place where kids learn to manage and make good use of new technologies, which transmit a working method and scientific research, fosters the critical knowledge and learn cooperation and teamwork," he replies.
To Tonucci, 68, born in Fano and based in Rome, the school should not assume a paper towel in the lives of children. So disagree with those who defend the double-shift schools.
"We need children to save our schools," said Tonucci, Bachelor of Education in Milan researcher, illustrator and author of Through the eyes of children, the city of children and when children say Basta!, among other books that have left their mark on teachers and parents. Tonucci arrived in Argentina on the 15th. Once, invited by the governor of Santa Fe, Hermes Binner, who defined it as "a luxury of ruling."
He spoke to the Nation on what really matters when it comes to train the younger ones and left many lessons, many teachers would score to start from next school year.
suggested, first, that teachers learn to listen to what children say, they are based on the knowledge they bring from their childhood experiences to begin to teach. "We must not consider adults as owners of the truth announced from a stage," he said.
recommended that "schools are beautiful, with gardens, orchards, where kids can play and hang out and not with huge patios and game uniforms not suggest anything other than explosive discharge for children overstretched."
And teachers do not fill with content to their students, but to listen to what they already know, and to propose interesting methods to discuss the knowledge they bring from their homes, the Internet, television documentaries. "What duties are finished! The school knows not have the right to fill the lives of children. Give them time to play. And much, "is part of the decalogue.
soft-spoken and sharp thinking, Tonucci conveys the image of a parent, a grandparent, a teacher who learned to see life from the perspective of children. And it crosses the world crying out for politicians and leaders to respect the voice of children.
- How do you see a good school?
"The school should take over bases cultural rights of children. Before you teach content, consideration should itself as a place that offers a rich proposal: a pleasant space where you listen to music during breaks, which is awash in art, where kids read to for fifteen minutes books cults to make contact with the thrill of reading. Children are not empty bags to be "complete" because they know nothing. Teachers must value knowledge, every little family history brings six years.
- How should transmit knowledge?
"Actually, the knowledge already in our midst: documentaries, online in books. The school should be taught using a scientific method. I do not believe in the dogmatic stance of the teacher who has the knowledge and transmits it from a platform or a blackboard while students (those who know nothing), record and listen to dumb and boring. The child learns to shut up and shut up forever. Lost curiosity and critical attitude.
- What do you recommend?
"I guess classrooms without desks, with tables around which sit everyone: students and teachers. And where supporters together in the center, their knowledge, they are contradictory, questions and advance in the search truth. Which is not unique and not moving.
- What is the role of the teacher?
-El of a facilitator, an adult who will listen and suggest ways and interesting learning experiences. Generally small are not used to sharing their opinions, to say what they dislike. Teachers should have an attitude of curiosity about what students know and want. I would ask teachers to invite children to bring their world inside the school, enabling them to bring their marbles, their pets, everything that makes your child's life. And that together we go out and explore the outdoors.
"Several times you said that the school is not related to life. Why?
"Because proposes useless knowledge that have nothing to do with the world surrounding the child. And because they are bored. Today there is no need to study history of their ancestors, but the present. You have to ask the students to connect with his family micro-history, history of their neighborhood. To bring the newspaper into the classroom and study on the basis of issues that have to do with the here and now. This will help interested then by distant cultures and contact with them.
- How do you motivate students to appeal against advances in technology, chat, cell phone, computer games, the iPod, the play station?
-The school should not compete with much richer and instruments capable. You should not think that their role is to teach things. This makes better TV or Internet. The school must be the place where you learn to manage and make good use of this technology, which convey a working method and scientific research, fosters the critical knowledge and learn cooperation and teamwork.
- double schooling is positive?
- In Italy we call this phenomenon "full-time schools." The question that comes to me is: full of what? This is the question. The school is taking on a role too absorbed in the lives of children. Must not encroach upon his time. Homework, for example, has no educational value. Does not serve to deepen and to retrieve knowledge. Give them time to children. The Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes them those two rights: to instruct and play. We should defend the right to play to consider it a duty.
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