I.T.T. Giordani-Striano, Napoli

Partner Coordinator: Rosaria Nocerino

I.T.T. Giordani-Striano, Napoli. Our organisation is a technical secondary school which, in spite of being situated in a good residential area of the city , for the educational curricula it offers (our pupils after 5 years can get a : Mechanical ,Electrotechnical, Chemical, or ICT TECHNICIAN diploma), our institute gathers pupils coming from the most disadvantaged Neapolitan suburbs that are populated by families in which their breadwinners are often unemployed or work by the piece.

Our pupils’ age ranges from 14 to 19, among them there are students with special needs ,as it’s in this kind of vocational specializing schools that these, not too lucky pupils ,apply to. It cannot be denied that the majority of our students are not motivated to school in general, as the know that after their studies it will be very hard to find a job with their Technical Diploma. We try to explain them that if they succeed in acquiring the skills and competences that such diplomas generally provide them ,they will have more chances in acquiring a place in the current difficult wold of work.

As a matter of fact, we as educators are strongly aware that year by year it is becoming easier for our pupils to believe in the fairy tale of Little Red Cap than in the fact that by studying they will find a good job. However if ,on one hand we can’t blame them since they live in an area with the highest youth unemployed rate (it is nearly the 50%); on the other hand we want ,more and more to provide our pupils with the right tools and instruments able to make them able to come out from their disadvantaged conditions as we are conscious that one organisation represent the only one point of reference that our weak pupils have .

 

Structurally our school is very big so, quite recently, we have been joined to another school as this other one has been loosing pupils since years and   now our organization welcomes in the whole 1500 pupils and about 150 teachers. Indeed, up to two years ago the name of our school was ITI GIORDANI after the fusion of both organizations it is named ITI GIORDANI-STRIANO.

Indeed, we think that we have been given the possibility to enrich our Educational offer by providing our pupils with more chances of studies as now we have added two more courses, Mechanics and Electrotechnics.

Institutionally, our schooling format consists of two basic terms/years during which our pupils study basic subjects consisting in :

Italian,Mathematics,English,History,Science,Chemistry,Physics,Technology and Religion; at the end of these two years students have to choose the specialization course they will continue their studies, in other words they will have to decide if to join the : ICT and communications, Mechanics, Electrotecnics and Chemistry.

As a matter of fact the category of students attending our school besides coming from not well-to-do families includes a lot of students with special needs ,affected by high level of disability (autism, down syndrome, mental retard) and many students pertained to   the BES categories who include dyslexics ,dysgraphics and slower to learn.

It’s for these reasons that we have been activating any sort of   strategies in order to:

– make our students attend   regular classes

-receive the right suppors to learn,

-to make them feel active participants in all aspects of the school life.

In other words we have been developing and designing our schools, classrooms, programs and activities so these students can learn and participate together with the other pupils.

All the care and the professionalism our organisation with its high qualified staff has been appointed INCLUSION LOCAL EDUCATIONAL CENTRE in 2012 by our Regional Educational Board, this means that we are referent -tutor of all the other schools in the district our school is located and since 2015 we have been in charged of being AUTISM HELPDESK .