Life skills and competences

The volume offers primary school teachers practical examples of projects that deviate from traditional teaching to give more space to the development of life skills.  Divided into classes, from first to fifth grades of primary school, it shows how the teaching of skills at school is able to create, together with the pupils, the tools necessary to face the world with a spirit of initiative, acquiring with awareness the subject contents dealt with and interdisciplinary skills requested.

The volume is organized in three sections which are repeated for each grade:

• The worksheets, to be used independently, are centered on each of the 10 life skills identified by the WHO and offer the opportunity to reflect on behaviors, choices and attitudes, with a constant invitation to making comparisons and self-narration.
• The subject activities, related to key competences, propose didactic models for daily work in the various disciplinary fields: linguistic, mathematical-scientific, anthropological, expressive and corporeal, and provide primary school teachers with outlines, implementation tools, indications and suggestions to create open, flexible and problematizing teaching.
• Interdisciplinary reality homework, with reference to concrete and meaningful situations, in which pupils can put their acquired skills into play, demonstrating the usefulness of learning. Everything is accompanied by a guided observation section for evaluation.