The CPIA 1 Foggia is an organization belonging to the Italian Ministry of Education and it belongs to the category of autonomous School Institutions (Istituzione Scolastica Autonoma). It is divided into a central office, 8 sections associated (Foggia, San Severo, Cerignola, Manfredonia, San Giovanni Rotondo, Bovino, Rodi Garganico and Stornarella) with 3 prison sections. To Italian and foreign citizens we supply services and activities aimed at the education of adults, this considered as a means for the personal, social, cultural and economic growth of the whole citizenry.

CPIA 1 is organised so that we can be in close contact with local autonomous organisations and with the employers present on the territory. It can be considered as an educational laboratory, but also as an organisation fostering the integration process, addressing the demands and needs of the territory.

Who is it addressed to?

Italian and foreign adults older than 16 years who have not yet fulfilled mandatory schooling, who do not own a first instruction cycle final certificate or who are willing to get a high school diploma or even improve their linguistic and digital skills.

Why going back to school?

•    To have more and better employment opportunities

•    To improve your skills in dealing with new technologies

•    To improve your language skills for daily communication, travel and knowledge

It is of fundamental importance for all citizens who want to improve their personal and professional situation – be them workers, unemployed, retirees or housewives – to obtain a qualification.

With a lifelong learning view in mind, the CPIA offers solid growth perspective, study incentives and help in accessing instruction paths to all citizens who wish to undertake (further) formation.

According to the specific needs of the learners, the paths of adult instruction are divided into Italian language literacy teaching and paths of first level and second level:

Learning the Italian language is a key step in the integration process of foreign citizens into the territory; thus, to those willing to learn or improve their level of written and spoken Italian, the CPIA offers programs of literacy and Italian language learning finally aimed at the achievement of a language certification not inferior to the A2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference (CFER) for the knowledge of languages; the A2 level is required to obtain the residency permit (Carta di lungo soggiorno). The CPIA is also a branch where it is possible to undertake this test.

The first level programs supplied by the CPIA are divided into two didactic periods: the first period is aimed at the achievement of the first instruction cycle final certification (licenzia media); the second period is built for the achievement of a certification that attests the acquisition of key competencies linked to the fulfilment of mandatory education and to activities shared by the different typologies of technical and professional high school institutions.

The organisation of educational activities chosen by the teachers operating in the CPIA is a modular one, meaning that it is peculiar because of its flexibility, expendability and transferability and that it embodies the most fitting structure in terms of the needs of an adult users pool by acknowledging all the previous credits, including the informal ones. A module here is meant as a full formation package aimed at the achievement of a certified result and/or of specific competencies. Every module begins with an entry test and is completed with a final test that verifies the achievement of the appropriate results.

The second level programs are embedded in the cycle of secondary education (i.e. high school level institutions) and are structured in three didactic periods aimed at the achievement of a secondary education level diploma (diploma di scuola superiore).

The teachers involved in this project have been working for many years in the field of adult education and have gained skills at all levels, both at the didactic –methodological and organizational level. In particular the professor Alfonso Rainone, contact person, gained experience mostly within the virtual European collaboration projects (e Twinning), receiving many times the quality label and during the school year 2009-2010 also the European Quality Label. During the school year 2009-2010 he participated in the realization of a multilateral mobility project Comenius LLP. He also was the e Twinning ambassador for three years. In this moment he is an active member of EPALE. He takes care of training teachers and in the CPIA 1 Foggia he is a digital animator. The professor Anna Maria Di Bari, a math and science teacher, expert in TIC, many times function instrumental, worked in projecting courses with national and international funding .She took place many times in GOP (facilitator, assessor, expert and designer). Both teachers participated to a specific training course about ERASMUS PLUS. Last year they also finished with success a mobility professional activity of job-shadowing with a homologous Spanish school (professor Rainone was the referent of the project), receiving an ERASMUS+KA104- Adult education staff mobility. 

Learning Teaching Training Activities at the CPIA of Foggia 

6 - 10 February 2023

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