Rethinking Learning Spaces and Teaching Methodologies by Connecting Communities During the COVID-19-Period: Inclusive Vision and ResearchTraining in On-Line Workshop

This research-training had involved twelve Italian schools throughout both on-line activities and at school design and involved a group of teachers of each school. that have joined together in a community to rethink how to organise and to review both the organisation of school spaces and the teaching methods in an inclusive perspective in COVID-19 pandemic emergency. The schools involved are in the autonomous province of Trento, in the Italian Trentino-Alto Adige region: IC Cavalese (8 primary schools has a reduced number of students and the secondary school has a higher number of student) and IC Rovereto 3 (2 schools located in Rovereto which is a medium-sized city and are very numerous, with recently immigrated children who do not speak Italian and many with SEN. It focuses around three questions. Is it possible to: 1) redesign classroom and learning environments for personalised and differentiated teaching in an innovative vision during COVID-19 period? 2) Redesign classroom through both on-line training and at design activities at school? 3) Overcome most of the obstacles to design learning spaces during the pandemic? The transformative research-training with the ideographic purpose has been used, and a critical approach induced teachers to find strategies to design new learning spaces through reflexive modalities and design project. The proposals presented by were very innovative in terms of organising spaces following the problem of the distances to be maintained to protect each other from COVID-19, and they promoted many innovative ideas in terms of methodology, inclusion, and didactic differentiation.