The Erasmus project ALlophone Teacher Academy for initial training of teachers

Abstract

The University of Basilicata has just started the ALTA project - Allophone Teacher Academy - which is the winning project of the call provided by the Erasmus+ Key Action 2 program, named Cooperation between organizations and institutions”. The project is coordinated by the Académie d’Amiens (France) and involves other European partners, including the Centre International de Formation et d’Outils à DEstination des Maîtres (CIFODEM) in Paris. Teacher Academies are established to address the priorities of the European Union in education policy with the aim of developing an increasingly European and international vision of teacher training. This project fits within the framework outlined by the Action Plan for Integration and Inclusion 2021-2027. One of its main objectives, is to train teacher, within the Erasmus Teacher Academies, to manage multicultural and multilingual classrooms by developing specific skills for addressing cultural, religious, and linguistic diversity within students. The essay is structured as follows: in the first section we describe the theoretical-methodological framework of the research-training project, which involves students, teachers, and internship tutors of the course in Primary Education Sciences, held at the University of Basilicata. In the second section, we analyze some of the products developed according to the ALTA protocol. These include the devices for learning the language of schooling MATERN-AILE and AILE, developed by Alain Bentolila within CIFODEM.