Bring Computer Science Competences into Italian Secondary Schools

Many educational systems adopt the competence-based approach, with the aim of enabling a more effective learning process. As a consequence, many definitions have been conceived, at different levels and in different countries, both of general competences for common citizens, and of specific competences, related to individual disciplines, as computer science and others. But the practical application of the competence-based approach is not widespread among the Italian teachers. A first case-study is proposed here, in which the informatics secondary teachers are involved to construct a set of teaching tools, according to the competence approach.