Alfonso Molina’s contribution on the HuffPost Blog
"It is a virtue to teach in frontier schools, to teach in difficult situations, to teach in the Ponticelli or Zen neighbourhoods.” [...] I found this nice definition of “merit” in an interview with Tullio De Mauro, from over twenty years ago, when he had been Minister of Public Education in the second Amato Government. [...]
What has changed in the past twenty years? There have been eleven different education ministers and relative administrative teams, but Italian teachers have not experienced much change, as is confirmed by the annual Eurydice Report on teacher and school administrator salaries and bonuses, published last month, for the World Teachers’ Day (Teachers’ and School Heads’ Salaries and Allowances in Europe, 2020/2021). [...]
I am convinced that amongst all the success factors for a school system, the most important is the quality of teaching. The ability to teach develops and improves over time with lifelong learning and constant exchanges with colleagues. And it is reinforced by the availability to work in frontier contexts, in the suburbs, where the educational and cultural opportunities are lacking ore even completely absent.
The new contribution by FMD Scientific Director Alfonso Molina, published on the Italian version of the HuffPost, is a debate on merit, recently rekindled by the new naming of the Ministry of Education.
TWENTY YEARS AGO, TULLIO DE MAURO EXPALINED THE MERIT OF TEACHING IN SUBURBS
When he was Education Minister, Tullio De Mauro explained in an interview on his idea of the school model to be implemented, including the project of defining career levels and salaries based on the ability to teach.
by Alfonso Molina, HuffPost, Nov. 8, 2022
