Baskin & Scuola

Aims

• offers opportunities for socialisation and comparison, allowing each person's identity to be built not on what is lacking but on the potential that each person possesses;
• lends itself as an attempt to help provide a possible response to the educational and cultural needs of all the pupils belonging to a community, in synergy with other educational agencies in the area;
• it lends itself as an opportunity for families to create a network in the area to welcome and make the most of resources, to share the problems that may be present in situations connected with disabilities, immigration and socio-cultural disadvantages.

Objectives

Promoting Baskin in schools means pursuing the following objectives:

• to strengthen young people's cognitive, relational and value-based skills, in order to foster their educational success and participation in social life
• collaborating in the development of a culture of social inclusion, favouring the realisation of projects, including interdisciplinary ones, drawn up by educational institutions of all levels and kinds;
• the full inclusion of students with disabilities through motor and sports activities; - promoting, during curricular and extra-curricular hours, always respecting the autonomy of school institutions, experimental initiatives of inclusive motor and sports activities to improve the participation of disabled pupils in the various forms of organised activities
• disseminate Baskin through the significant projects and good practices implemented in recent years throughout the country;
• promote Baskin as an example and model of INCLUSIVE SPORT in every school order and grade;
• to encourage, promote and implement training and refresher courses for physical education and support teachers in the areas of motor and sporting activities, adapted through Baskin
• Promote the participation of students of all school levels in Baskin sporting events, tournaments and championships organised at provincial and regional level in the 13 regions where the sport is most popular: Valle d'Aosta, Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Emilia-Romagna, Marche, Tuscany, Lazio, Campania, Apulia, Basilicata and Sicily.

School Championships

In the 2019-2020 year, thanks to the Recognition of the CIP, Baskin was included among the disciplines of the technical project of the Student Championships and was therefore included in the Olimpia platform of the MIUR. Previously, Baskin activity in schools was regulated by a memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Education, University and Research and the Baskin Onlus Association signed on 2 May 2017 (protocol 0000862.02.05-2017).

Teacher Training

Training and refresher courses for teaching staff, in a school that is attentive to changes and ready to tackle the problems of our time in the appreciation of the contents of tradition, guarantee the professional growth of teachers in the context of all those who work in the school, with the aim of improving the quality of teaching and educational interventions at all levels.

In the 2021/22 school year, training courses will be implemented to raise awareness of Baskin.

The courses will include a theoretical and a practical part. Teachers will be introduced to the essentials of Baskin: the approach, methodology, technique and the game. During the practical part, innovative teaching methods will be tried out: workshop activities in small groups, cooperative learning, peer tutoring, useful for inclusion processes and the acquisition of social and citizenship skills.

A certificate of attendance will be issued for each course.

Training objectives:

1. To offer teachers training paths and technical-pedagogical support on Baskin, understood as a sport practice, educational methodology and cultural project;
2. To provide teachers, through Baskin, with a concrete and
3. Effective for promoting an inclusive culture in physical, motor and sports education;
4. Enhance through Baskin the search for fairness in competition;
5. Acquire skills to recognise and enhance the abilities of each pupil.