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Michele LattaruloTeacher
Italy
There are projects that address learning difficulties, but too often such projects address the issue from an abstract point of view, with the consequence that teachers do not take any advantage in their practice and tackle the issue of learning difficulties in a mere “formal” way, worrying about formal correctness rather than on the effect on students. The strength of this project, that makes it innovative, is the idea of focusing on mathematics. In this way, teachers are directly involved. Another strong point is the concreteness of the proposed activities, that can be immediately translated into good practices in everyday practice.
Anonymous Teacher
Italy
The project provides a series of practical tools, accompanied by complete theoretical references, that can be very helpful for mathematics teachers and support them in their didactical activity with students with MLD.
Giulia CalvaunaTeacher
Italy
I strongly believe into the project. It would be nice to have conferences so that experts can present these themes, the project resources and more in general theoretical references in math education. It would be important to collaborate with special education teachers, that often are not well prepared, so as to create an efficient learning environment for students. Schools should support such projects and fund specific interventions for students. I think it is very important to focus on maths basic competences for all the necessary time, trying to use many registers and make students protagonists. I also think that the resources on the site are very useful. It would be interesting to have formative assessment activities for the different school levels, and the connected teacher guides.
Anonymous Teacher
Italy
I like the intervention tools at disposal, and the fact that there are also monitoring tools. I like the description of strong points of the proposals. I find very useful the idea of setting up tools for the identification and classification of difficulties in mathematics.
Giorgia CirimeleTeacher
Italy
The questionnaires are very interesting. For the first time, a project focuses on learning difficulties in mathematics at secondary school level, not mixing them with difficulties in other disciplines or treating them as mere calculation difficulties, but rather designing strategies to face a complex problem. Up to now, there were no resources for the identification and treatment of such difficulties. By means of the project, thanks to the collaboration with teachers, educational paths were designed in order to face and overcome the difficulties an “solve the problem”.
Elena BaiciTeacher
Italy
I find the intervention tools very interesting, since they allow the students to improve and promote the discussion, raising interest. The project allows to identify learning difficulties, beyond formal certification, and provides solutions for the problems. My evaluation of the project is very positive, since the proposals are intuitive nd easy to use; unfortunately in distance teaching everything is more complicated, but surely we have here suggestions for improvement, making our lessons easier to understand and more inclusive.
Francesco PassarellaTeacher
Italy
I am very happy to be part of this project that can be used by educators to tackle the difficulties encountered by students in mathematics with more tools.necessarily use and give them a try.
Massimo AmatoTeacher
Italy
I am proud to have taken part in this project, which provides elements of great importance, which can be used by educators, teachers, school directors and policy makers, creating a network of relationships to help students who are having difficulties in mathematics.
Andrea BruscinoTeacher
Italy
The tools presented, even if they do not cover all the topics, would be practically impossible, they are an excellent starting point for facing the difficulties and suggest that the modalities give very positive results. I hope that all teachers can benefit from it.
Silvia LucciTeacher
Italy
Projects like this one are extremely useful to share knowledges among different countries.
AlfredoTeacher
Italy
I am happy to have known this project which can help educators to overcome the difficulties faced by students in mathematics.
Nadia LacerenzaTeacher
Italy
To extend the same aim of this project to other subjects could represent a great challenge for the educational community.
Stefania MiglioTeacher
Italy
Having been part of this project represented a very challenging experience, since it has given me the chance to search for new tools to make inclusion more and more concrete in everyday teaching.
Corrado VeserTeacher
Italy
It is very important that educational communities work together to implement new way of approaching students' difficulties in STEMs.
Valentina TomeiTeacher
Italy
I found this project very useful because not only it helps the students to develop mathematical skills but thanks to the group approach it help them to strengthen their social skills.
Sara PicchioniTeacher
I liked the activities because they offer a different approach to mathematical problems.
Daniela DiamantiTeacher
Italy
I find this tool to be very flexible and easy to be used by teachers. Furthermore it can be a I find this tool to be very flexible and easy to be used by teachers. Furthermore it can be a makes it easily understandable by everyone.
Marco F.Teacher
Italy
It’s very useful to plan specific lessons using those tools.
Ilaria PasiniTeacher
Italy
I am honored to have been part of this project whose results I believe will be a valuable support
Seremak AnetaTeacher
Poland
It is really good that the resources are available in various languages. With a growing number of students who were born abroad and whose English is better than their mother tongue, it was hard to diagnose the reason of the difficulties. Now the resources enable teachers to identify the learning difficulties better.
Sawiuk AnnaTeacher
Poland
The best part of the intervention tools are the online resources which can be used both in class and during online learning. With the use of the applications students have a better chance to understand variables.
Żołędź AnnaTeacher
Poland
The questionnaires B1 and B2 are a very useful tool to test and diagnose the difficulties in learning mathematics. They are easy to use and give valuable information on the possibility of dyscalculia.
Knap MonikaTeacher
Poland
It's very easy to administer the diagnostic questionnaires with the chart for collecting the results. The teacher can get straight away to work with students who need special support and use the intervention and monitoring tools.
Starachowska AgnieszkaTeacher
Poland
I find the intervention tools really useful. Students are able to manipulate the objects and use their kinesthetic intelligence to support the understanding of the abstract concepts.
Tomaszewicz BartoszTeacher
Poland
It is important that so much focus is on the visualisation which helps students understand better. Using a lot of scaffolding and techniques such as relaunching or rephrasing suggested in the intervention tools ensures that students get extra support.
Krystyna ŻaryTeacher
Poland
The scientific research on which the project is based effectively combines mathematic-related studies with educational psychology, general education supports and concepts related to other fields (e.g. second-language learning theories) which are apparently far from the world of mathematics but, as demonstrated, actually are not. As an individual who dedicated decades to mathematical didactics, I am confident the project is indeed useful for anyone involved in the education system.
Jakub Żary Teacher
Poland
The SMiLD project is indeed an innovative one, dealing with an issue which is often overlooked and providing usable tools aimed at tackling it. The project’s website is clear and complete, allowing anyone interested to access its content and make use of its meaningful intellectual outputs. As a policy maker, I can affirm the project is well-written and its intervention tools well-designed
Tommaso Vittorio SorianiTeacher
Poland
The scientifical research on which the project is based effectively combines mathematic-related studies with educational psychology, general education supports and concepts related to other fields (e.g. second-language learning theories) which are apparently far from the world of mathematics but, as demonstrated, actually are not.
Vittoria RubiniTeacher
Poland
The project is innovative and successfully conveys effective ways people involved in the educational system can address issues related to learning disabilities in mathematics. The sources on which the whole project is based are varied, reliable and offer a wide perspective on all the aspects on which mathematical learning and teaching are based. The SMILD project is overall a complete tool for dealing with learning disabilities in mathematics. I find it extremely useful for both, people working in the scientific education field and policy makers, since it not only shows all the faces of mathematics-related learning disabilities, but also provides well-designed intervention tools for tackling the issue.
Adam KrukTeacher
Poland
I find the comparison between policy frameworks in Italy, Portugal and Poland extremely interesting. Such an investigation provides insights on the status quo in the three countries, constituting a solid starting point for the whole project. The investigation on the different aspects of Mathematical Learning Disabilities is clear and allows diversifying and identifying cases. I will certainly share the projects and its tools to colleagues and acquaintances involved in teaching Mathematic.
Alex CasarottiTeacher
Poland
The intervention tools seem to be potentially effective and are accurately described.
Marco Scodeggio Teacher
Poland
As an individual who dedicated decades to mathematical didactics, I am confident the project is indeed useful for anyone involved in the education system.
Ilona KadysTeacher
Poland
The SMiLD project is indeed an innovative one, dealing with an issue which is often overlooked and providing usable tools aimed at tackling it.
Krzysztof JankowskiTeacher
Poland
The project’s website is clear and complete, allowing anyone interested to access its content and make use of its meaningful intellectual outputs.
Maria Guilhermina CastanhoTeacher
Portugal
I think that the application of these new methodologies in the classroom and sharing them with school colleagues is an added value for detecting students with disturbances in learning mathematics.
Paulo GonçalvesTeacher
Portugal
As far as the aspects and strengths of the project were concerned: the use of pre-tests and from there being able to outline strategies for each of the students according to the difficulties that each of the students showed the most. Also very interesting was the sharing of resources used or produced by each element (teachers) involved in the project, as well as the possibility of using these resources afterwards.
Mónica CarneiroTeacher
Portugal
The fact that there are intervention and monitoring tools that allow the teacher to implement diversified tasks.
Paula Maria RodriguesTeacher
Portugal
The strong point is the sharing of experiences in order to enrich the diversification of recovery strategies for students with specific difficulties in the mathematics discipline.
Manuel Vara PiresTeacher
Portugal
SMILD is a very relevant project with an approach that can be very useful both for teachers - helping them to identify and systematize the main learning difficulties of their students, and for students themselves - helping them to become aware and overcome their difficulties and to feel more confident in their mathematical learning. I highlight the structuring and organization of the materials made available by SMILD on the platform, which can be a good and decisive contribution for students to overcome difficulties in understanding and using mathematical themes and procedures and, thus, improve learning and the relationship with Mathematics.
Cristina MartinsTeacher
Portugal
In the SMILD project, I believe that the most interesting and strongest aspects are focused on: the groups it targets (teachers, students, parents, and school leaders); the articulation and rationale of the phases in which it is organized; and the clarity and relevance of the expected results.
Bela CastroTeacher
Portugal
The toolkit is the most useful resource since it has a wide variety of activities built with the purpose of helping students with mathematics learning disabilities, in order to combat math failure.
Paula BarrosTeacher
Portugal
The fact of not focusing only on the identification and categorization of difficulties, but also on betting on intervention strategies, providing teachers with information and tools that allow them to act in accordance with the students' difficulties. The Smild project, as it provides the educational community with a set of tools and guidelines to support students with difficulties, will certainly be an asset to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics.
Maria Bento Teacher
Portugal
The fact that the project addresses an area so important as the learning difficulties in mathematics and that it provides innovative and motivating tools to deal with these difficulties, makes it quite interesting. I will continue to explore the tools developed to help students with the greatest difficulties.
António MoraisTeacher
Portugal
These type of projects are an important asset for the success of the teaching-learning process. The most interesting aspect is its specificity, since it is aimed at students with learning difficulties in Mathematics, which is a reality that we face and that sometimes it is not easy to help them improve.
Manuela TeixeiraTeacher
Portugal
The project includes a set of tools that allow diagnosing and identifying students who have learning difficulties in Mathematics; Practical and simple activities for students who reveal difficulties; Activities developed in 3 countries, by teachers of Basic and Secondary Education and university professors; Document identifying education regulations and policies related to learning disabilities in Mathematics in the 3 countries participating in the project.
António PiresTeacher
Portugal
Very interesting and enriching project. Useful in the teaching-learning process of Mathematics; Web page easy to access and search.
Ana MoraisTeacher
Portugal
With me being responsible for an institution that supports children and young people with various types of learning difficulties, I think that the project represents an added value for educators and students who can benefit from the implementation of the tools developed.
Maria MartinsTeacher
Portugal
The most useful resource of the project is the intervention activities. With them we can help students with mathematics learning difficulties, providing them with more practical teaching and more attractive and dynamic classes. This type of activities, when handled by the students themselves, work as instruments of investigation, exploration and autonomous discovery. This demonstrates that when the student has the main role in the construction and exploration of his own knowledge, through the proper guidance of the teacher, the student performance gets better.






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The SMiLD project (2018-1­IT02­KA201­048274) is funded by the European Commission through the Italian National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme. This web site reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.