The event focuses on the professional training and development of teachers, the subject of a dense local, national and international debate centred on skills, knowledge, acted practices, linked to the new modes of initial and in-service training.

Renowned scholars and recognised witnesses of teaching will reflect on the masterfulness of the teacher, the challenges to which acting as a teacher is subject, and the skills that the profession requires.  

Programme

08.30 - Registration and reception of participants

09.15 - Institutional greetings

• Franco Gervasoni, SUPSI, Director General
• Emanuele Berger, School Division, Director
• Giuseppe Cotti, City of Locarno, Deputy Mayor
• Alberto Piatti, SUPSI Department of Formation and Learning (DFA), Director

09.45 - 150 years of the Scuola Magistrale - The launch of a project 

• Wolfgang Sahlfeld, SUPSI-DFA, Head of Laboratory for Historical-Educational Research, Documentation, Preservation and Digitisation

10.00 - The figure of the teacher: dialogues with several voices

• "Growing as teachers in a European and international dimension".
  Davide Parmigiani, University of Genoa, Associate Professor of Education
• "Social changes and the teaching figure".
  Sandro Cattacin, University of Geneva, Professor of Sociology
• "Virtues and teaching: clemency".
  Francesca Rigotti, University of Italian Switzerland
• "Combien de métiers effectuent les enseignants".
  Isabelle Mili, University of Geneva, professor of didactics of the arts and music
• "Being a teacher: questions of professional identity".
  Giancarlo Gola, SUPSI-DFA, Head of Teaching-Learning and Evaluation Area

Introduction and moderator: Pier Carlo Bocchi, SUPSI-DFA, lecturer-researcher Teaching Learning and Assessment Area

12.30 - Lunch break

14.00 - The figure of the teacher: voices from the context

• "Contradictions and removals of images of the teaching profession".
  Rolf Bossart, Pädagogische Hochschule St.Gallen, lecturer in religious studies and education for democracy
• "Becoming a teacher. Between training and conception of one's own role".
  Fabio Camponovo, "School Movement" Association
• "The effected truth of the teacher"
  Roberto Salek, "Verifiche: Culture, Education, Society" Magazine 
• ""He who cannot do, teaches". The figure of the teacher between yesterday's and today's prejudices and commonplaces".
  Nunzia Conte Giacometti, Federazione Docenti Ticinesi  
• "Prof. 4.0"
  Omar Gianora, "La Scuola" Association

Introduced and moderated by: Sonia Castro Mallamaci, SUPSI-DFA, Head of Teaching Diploma for Baccalaureate Schools

15.30 - In dialogue with the writer Giancarlo Visitilli 

• Magda Ramandan, SUPSI-DFA, Head of Basic Education

16.00 - Conclusions