Learn with Drama

A brilliant Italian project where we can learn languages, journalism and translation.  It is a guided project to learn the excellent use of the internet today. Italian kids and teens from different cities met on my blog, zoom, and learnt and grew together. Cari amici che mi sostenete,  Vi voglio parlare di un gruppo di ragazzi e ragazze che hanno partecipato al mio laboratorio: "Che cos'è un giornale". Il laboratorio nasce dall'idea di non abbattersi alla pandemia ma di trovare creative strategie di convivenza costruttiva. Ho ideato la nascita di un giornalino da condividere con un gruppo ristretto di ragazzi e ragazze che hanno lavorato tantissimo. Sei studenti di 4^ e 5^ primaria e tre studenti di 1^ e 2^ secondaria di primo grado, dislocati tra Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto e Liguria. Sei giornalisti, che hanno fatto anche da traduttori e illustratori; tre traduttori che hanno fatto anche da giornalisti e illustratori. Un grazie a tutti i genitori che si sono adope...

  My Educational Offer The narration has always belonged to humans, and their need to tell about themselves, share, know, and listen to. I consider the narrative one of the traits that distinguish men from beasts, therefore a fundamental aspect of the development of the child and adolescent (an ontogenetic part of human development) and, let me say, essential to the evolution of man (a phylogenetic aspect of human evolution). Storytelling in a foreign language creates a space in which the child or adolescent or adult, learns to express themselves in another language, developing their communication skills in general and in particular, expanding the lexicon and improving the phonetics in the second (or third) language. The word bilingualism is often the focus of discussion and controversy. Still, it certainly refers to a communicative ability in a language that does not pass through translation from another language. We can discuss if a mother tongue should live in the place the lang...

 Why theatre? Theatre, before all, is a matter of personal contact. So, first of all, you must know who you are and what you want.  You have to be a part of a team, share, observe, accept, understand, experiment. Time after time, you realize the importance of work together and the importance of the rules that permit confidence.  Theatre becomes a life choice, even when you are not an actor, director or writer. Like teaching, theatre is highly complex, and it germinates a vocation; otherwise, it is a disaster. It needs love, passion, dedication, patience, understanding, trust and much more.  Theatre is not a pose. It is not a beautiful image but an emotion, an idea, a feeling.  There are different learning methodologies, almost all valid; everyone prefers the one that feels most similar to their own inner teaching model. Still, there is one thing that cannot be ignored: the relationship between people. One last thing I want to say. As a Tuscan told me years ago, ...