I teach English at the lower Secondary school “Portella della Ginestra” in Vittoria. At the beginning of my career I have taught in the primary school and since that time I've always been interested in "Intercultural" projects. I did myself an exchange just between teachers, I attended some seminars abroad through the previous Erasmus programmes, and I was the contact teacher of a Comenius Assistantship project and now the Coordinator of a KA229. At the moment different Erasmus projects are running in our institution giving us the chance to enrich our personal and professional development. I really believe in intercultural themes and European educational matters, as they represent a tool to teach tolerance, to overcome every kind of prejudice, to preserve our diversity as a richness and build an open minded attitude towards the others, that is “working for a better world”!

I’m Claudia Cecere. I’m an English teacher at the Primary School Portella della Ginestra in Vittoria, Italy. I’m a wife and a mum, I have two daughters. I ‘ve been teaching English for seventeen years, I love this wonderful language and I’m trying to improve it more and more. I teach English to my students as if it were a game: listening, speaking, reading and writing become skills to get but also ways to have fun by discovering day after day a new kind of communication. Thanks to the Erasmus projects I’m learning to use a lot of important tools to get better my teaching, my techonological knowledge, my linguistic and life skills.

My name is Anna Vario and I teach English at the lower secondary school, but I have also been a primary school teacher for many years. I love my job a lot, I've chosen it since I was a child and I still passionate about it. In my spare time I love being with my son Daniele but also I like reading, going to the cinema, listening to music, taking walks to the sea and ... going to shopping !!! I feel very honored to take part in the Erasmus projects of this school because I consider them a great professional and human opportunity. Breathing Europe together with colleagues and students with its values and ideals, recognizing common traits before differences, learning from being close to different countries that sharing is wealth, is growth ... all this is a unique experience for me and deeply enriching and for this I am very grateful ...

I'm Maria Giovanna Battaglia, I have been teaching for 33 years, thirty of which are dedicated to the kindergarten, my great love. I am the mother of two adult boys, who have made music their reason for living and the wife of a husband who loves electronics. And I? I love music, I love digital and even electronics, but above all I combine the STEM disciplines that I teach in primary school with digital. I'm also a digital teacher animator of the Portella della Ginestra School and, in addition to animating my colleagues with digital, now in ERASMUS, I will also animate the wonderful team enthusiastically involved in this adventure.

My name is Maria Rita Alabiso and I live in Vittoria (Sicily). I've been teaching in a Primary school for 27 years. I'm married and my husband is a teacher too. I've two children : Alessandra, she is eighteen and Davide, he is thirteen. I'm very happy to be part of this Erasmus group and to make this experience because I think it may be useful in my work and can enrich myself professionally.

I’m Raffaela and I live in Ragusa. I’m married and I’ve got a child. I’m a nice sociable and a bit shy person. I like sport: I play tennis and I go swimming twice a week. I am a teacher for children with special needs; my school is in Vittoria so I use to reach it by car everyday. I spend the rest of the morning with my pupils, dealing with their needs and helping them as much as possible, which for me is one the most interesting and challenging aspects of my job. I think Erasmus Project is a great opportunity to improve both teachers and students time of learning as well as a chance to socialize.

I live in Vittoria with my husband. We’ve got two daughters and a lovely grandson. I’m a primary school teacher and I’ve been teaching at “Portella della Ginestra” since 1991. I’m glad to participate in this project. I think that our role as teachers is to recognize and cultivate our students passions and connect what we are doing in school to what they actually care about. We promote respect amongst kids, in order to prevent all kind of prejudice and this project represents a great opportunity for cultural development, sharing good practices and knowledge about different cultures, traditions and lifestyles.

My name is Giovanni Carfì and I teach Music at the lower Secondary School “Portella delle Ginestre” in Vittoria. In my career I also taught the piano, in the instrumental curricular classes. This year my headmaster assigned me the role of deputy teacher in the middle school of the Institute. I am delighted to join the Erasmus project as this experience gives me the opportunity to develop and enrich my profession.

My name is Emanuela Catalano, I teach italian, history and geography in the middle school. I live in Comiso and I have been working for 18 years in Vittoria at the comprehensive institute "Portella della Ginestra". I taught in the high secondary school and later on at the infancy school. I'm very happy to join this project because I have the chance to know a lot of colleagues with whom I exchange ideas and experiences also I have a way to develop my english competences.

My name is Antonello. I’m fifty-four years old and I am from Sicily. I’m a teacher at Middle school, I teach Phisical Education. I have a Wife, Rita, She Is a teacher too, and Two wonderful children: Alssandra, She Is eigtheen and Davide, he Is thirteen. I am very appy to partecipate in the erasmus project. I am very happy to join the Erasmus project.

Hello, my name is Franca. I’m 51 years old . I come from Italy and I live in Vittoria with my husband and my three children: Matteo, Marco e Marianna. I’m support teacher and I have been teaching at “Portella della Ginestra” Comprehensive School for 19 years. I love my job a lot. I’m very happy to be part of this Erasmus group because I think that this experience is very important for my training and very useful in my work. I really believe that this project is very innovative to promote social inclusion and to give a chance to all the students, including disabled students, to have equal opportunities for their cultural growth.

My name is Carmela Giarratana ,I am 52 years old and I‘m a Primary School teacher. I teach mathematics in a third class and in a fifth class, history and geography in a fourth class. I am married and I have two children. I have been teaching in Primary School for 22 years before I taught in nursery school. I like my job because I like staying with children. I love workshop teaching , it is an important methodology because involves pupils actively.I am happy to be part of the Erasmus project, it is a very important and stimulating opportunity to do new experiences and know other scholastic realities to enrich my work.

I am Arianna Manuello, I’ve been teaching technology for a few years at low secondary school. I am an architect and designer. Being part of an Erasmus group I think is necessary in the educational field and not only. The exchange between different cultures is fundamental in the formation of the person to acquire awareness, social conscience and much more. Proud to be part of it!

My name is Angela Marangio, I teach mathematics and science. I'm happy to be part of this group. Despite having studied French, I wanted to test myself by doing this wonderful Erasmus experience. I have been teaching for 27 years as a tenured teacher but I started at the age of 19 as a substitute teacher. I've been married for 36 years and I have 3 children.

My name is Rosa Nicastro, I’m fourty-five years old,and I live in Gela (Sicily). I’ve been teaching in secondary school for 15 years: I teach history and geography. I’m married,my husband's name is Filippo. I’ve got a daughter, her name is Ginevra and she is fifteen. I like walking, going to the gym and I love shopping... I’m very happy to be part of this Erasmus group, and to do this experience, because I think it may be useful in my work and it can enrich myself professionally.

I’ve been a primary school teacher for about 28 years and my name is Delia. I love my job a lot; the children are able to give me so much and I try to commit myself to give them the best. I like to get involved in new experiences, compare myself and experience what I think can be useful and motivating for me and my students and that's why I'm in this Erasmus team. I particularly like this thought: "You can travel in many ways: there are those who travel always and never leave; there are those who leave and go far away without the need to travel, some goes and travels and some doesn’t leave and doesn’t travel ... " (from the book -Traveling and not leaving- by Andrea Bocconi), because in order to participate in this Erasmus, I left and I traveled happy and happy to have done it.

I am Fabio Prelati, I teach in the school Portella della Ginestra from 1997. I'm fifty-two years old and I have two children. I firmly believe that our pupils must acquire an open, supportive, Legalitarian, peace-oriented and respect for others. All fundamental values for a Europe of the peoples and not just of the states. The Erasmus project, in this sense, is a fantastic educational and cultural opportunity!

My name is a Valentina Amico. I'm thirty nine years and i live in vittoria. I'm married with Giuseppe and we have got two children: Giorgia, seven years, and Salvuccio, three years. I teach italian, history and geography at the lower secondary school. I have been teaching for eleven years and at "Portella" since 2012. I love this job! and I love my family!! I like listening to music and reading mystery novels: Andrea Camilleri is my favourite writer. I believe that the Erasmus project is an opportunity we shouldn't miss!

My name is Cinzia Burrafato. I was born in Comiso and I live in Vittoria. After gratuating in pedagogy i worked for three years at social services for minors of the town council of Vittoria. I won the elementary school competition and I taught for 13 years in the primary level. I have been teaching literary studies for 15 years at the lower secondary school of the same institute . I join the Erasmus project because I find it is an opportunity for professional growth.

I am a teacher of humanities at the lower secondary school and I teach at a school in a suburb of the city of Vittoria, in the province of Ragusa. I don't live in Vittoria, but in Comiso and I've been to this school because I've always been happy with colleagues and students. I like new products and innovations in teaching and I believe this activity offers this opportunity.

My name is Laura. I am 50 years old and I am a teacher of Italian, History and Geography at the lower secondary school "Portella della Ginestra". Thanks to the Erasmus projects I can have the opportunity to travel (I love traveling!) and to share life experiences with my students and with other teachers. Traveling means having a double experience: that of knowing different realities from one's own and that of opening one's mind to new opportunities.