Italy's national guidelines for the curriculum of infant school and the first cycle of education (primary and lower secondary), issued by the Ministry of Education, most recently revised in 2012 with updated integrations in 2018. Rather than a rigid syllabus, they set educational goals for the development of competences (traguardi per lo sviluppo delle competenze) and learning objectives by subject and grade band, leaving individual schools significant autonomy to design their own detailed curriculum within that framework.
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Key ProvisionSets Italy's competence-development goals and learning objectives by subject for infant school through lower secondary, leaving detailed curriculum design to individual schools. 1 Enacted / Adopted Year Classification
Education LevelLower Secondary Education (ISCED 2) 1 FAQs
Are the learning goals in the Italian national curriculum guidelines binding on schools?
Yes. For the first cycle the competence goals are prescriptive.
Yes, the competence goals are binding for the first cycle of education. The guidelines present the goals for the development of competences (traguardi per lo sviluppo delle competenze) as criteria for assessing the competences expected of pupils, and they describe the goals, as set out over time, as prescriptive.
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Italy's national guidelines for the curriculum of infant school and the first cycle of education (primary and lower secondary), issued by the Ministry of Education, most recently revised in 2012 with updated integrations in 2018.
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