Disvelare l’alto potenziale: opportunità per ampliare l’inclusione a scuola

This participatory research addressed the invisibility of high-ability children at school: invisibility emerging from the comparison between the only pupil identified in the reference school and the average 2% of the population which is indicated as a criterion by the scientific literature. Where are the others? The hypothesis of this work is that a specific teacher training can offer them new observational filters to facilitate an identification process for these students. For the research objectives the active participation of teachers was a fundamental element: agreement on lectures, sharing tools to be used in the classroom and their analysis. Parents and pupils were involved in main stages. Even with the limitations of a pilot project, it was possible to recognize that voluntary and conscious education can remove the veil of the apparent invisibility of pupils with high ability. The perceived inclusiveness of the Italian school has been cracked and the opportunity has been seized to increasingly abandon the biomedical criterion of compensation.