In here there is pure gold!
Today I came home from work aware that there is something very precious in my backpack!
Do you want to know what it is? I will reveal it to you very soon!
Hi everyone, I'm Ale from Learn Italian with Ale and today's video is about the school system.
You who are so experienced and passionate about Italy,
do you know the Italian school system?
Four years ago I had the shameless luck to start teaching in primary school.
I say "shameless luck" because for me this experience has been and still is
one of the most beautiful things of my entire life.
In Italy we have various types of schools that are attended
by children and young people according to their age.
We have kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary
school, middle school, high school and university.
Except for the university and the nursery school, all other types of school
also have a bureaucratic name, a name that appears in school circulars,
those cards that are used to manage the entire school system.
The kindergarten is called kindergarten.
Primary school is called primary school.
Then we have the lower secondary school and the upper secondary school.
These four years of teaching have been an incredible experience for me,
an experience that I hope to continue to do in the next few years.
What my students gave me, and I really say this with my heart,
is much, much more than what I was able to give them.
And then I feel at ease with them because inside of me I have always remained a child.
Not a child in the sense that I like to build paper objects
or that I go to the beach to make sand castles ...
But let's get back to my backpack.
In here there is really something very precious.
We have a 200 euro tablet.
This is my personal register.
The register is the place where teachers note their attendance at school,
enter pupils' attendance, mark grades, and also write disciplinary notes.
I said "place", in quotation marks, because until a few years ago the register was on paper.
Today, however, it has become electronic. This is why the school gave me this tablet.
However, the tablet actually had nothing to do with what is really precious to me.
In the meantime, however, you have learned some new terms!
The real gold that is in here and that is invaluable
are the gifts that my fifth grade students gave me just today.
Today was our last lesson,
in fact they are now kids ready to go to middle school.
This was a class that I have grown very fond of and unfortunately today
it is time for our last lesson.
It was an unforgettable and moving lesson. My pupils
prepared some shows and then we all had fun together.
For this I want to thank them all very much!
They wrote me some beautiful letters
and prepared some wonderful surprises that I will keep with me forever.
Of course I can't read the contents of the letters because it's something personal,
but I want to thank them all very much!
Look how beautiful this envelope is which also has the YouTube logo and the name of my channel.
But I want to show you this beautiful roll
that they have prepared for me, with the words "maestro Alessandro".
You should know that in Italy there are various ways to call the person who teaches,
and this also varies according to the type of school.
First of all we have the term "teacher",
which is a word that applies to all orders and grades of school.
At the bureaucratic level, therefore in
school circulars, this term is replaced by the word teacher.
I am reading this email that the principal sent me,
in which it is written "The teachers responsible for projects must, by Monday 20 June,
send a report on the project carried out to the secretariat".
Then we have two other terms, which are "teacher",
used for kindergarten and elementary school teachers.
The term "professor" on the other hand is reserved for
middle school, high school and university teachers.
Who is the principal I told you about earlier?
This is the head of the school,
that is, the person who directs and takes responsibility for the whole institution.
In the institution where I teach there are some kindergartens,
five primary schools and two middle schools.
Officially, the principal is called the head teacher.
I also wanted to show you this other beautiful gift, given to me by my students,
in which all their names are written, so I can never forget them!
In a class of Italian boys there are those who have a name of Italian origin and
those who have a name of foreign origin. So let's dispel the myth that all Italians are
called Giuseppe or Francesco! Which are beautiful names huh, don't get me wrong!
Aurora, Caterina, Melisa, Anabela, Ariel.
By the way, thank you so much Ariel who
made me a great video on her YouTube channel!
Beatrice, Bianca, Mandy, Viola, Lucia, Anna, Elisabetta, Maryame,
Marwa, Lorenzo, Massimo, Giuliano, Samuele, Antonio, Davide, Christian, Akram, Ryane.
Having said that, I would like to thank and wish the best future to my
graduate students and to all the students I teach!
See you in the next video!