Italian LOSSTT-IN-MATH System

SSIS - Specialization school for secondary school teachers

General information:

• post-graduate University biennial courses
• ruled at national level
• organized at regional level, within the frame of inter-University agreements
• regional administrative structures and educational models
• parallel didactical activities in each University in the Region
• educational activities organized in different disciplinary sections
• admission by public contexts at regional level (two written proofs: discipline knowledge and teaching abilities)
• educational requirement: laurea (University degree: 4/5 years)
• interim exams at the end of each of the four semesters
• final State exam, entitling to be a teacher of a set of subjects related to the chosen section.

 Specific information:

• in Tuscany: agreement among the Universities of Pisa (administrative management), Firenze and Siena
• one thousand hours of classes to be attended, as for the following table:    
  

• disciplinary section for future Mathematics teachers in lower secondary schools: Natural Sciences
• educational requirement: laurea in any scientific discipline
• disciplinary instruction given through four semester courses of Mathematical Sciences and four semester courses of Experimental Sciences, according to the following timetable:

•  discipline entitled to teach: Mathematical Sciences and Natural, Physical and Experimental Sciences

ITALIAN LOSSTT IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
THE CURRICULA IN TUSCANY REGION

SSIS of TUSCANY at Florence

First Year - 85 hours

• ARITHMETIC - 35 hours
• HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS (The number and its operations) - 11 hours
• STATISTICS - 8 hours
• LOGICS - 8 hours
• DIDACTICS OF MATHEMATICS - 15 hours
• COMPUTER LABORATORY - 8 hours

 Second Year - 65 hours

• GEOMETRY - 35 hours
• HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS (from The geometry to The geometries)- 11 hours
• DIDACTICS OF MATHEMATICS - 6 hours
• THEORETICAL/PRACTICAL PROOF - 6 hours
• COMPUTER LABORATORY - 7 hours

SSIS of TUSCANY at Pisa

First Year - 90 hours (54 hrs. of theory and 36 hrs of didactical and IT laboratory)

• PLANE GEOMETRY - 25 hours
• NUMBER SYSTEMS - 20 hours
• ALGEBRA, VARIABLES, FUNCTIONS - 20 hours
• STATISTICS - 10 hours
• MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS LABORATORY - 15 hours

 Second Year - 60 hours (36 hrs of theory and 24 hrs of didactical and IT laboratory)

• SPACE GEOMETRY - 30 hours
• PROBABILITY - 15 hours
• INTERCULTURAL MATHEMATICS - 5 hours
• DIFFICULTIES IN MATHEMATICS - 10 hours

SSIS of TUSCANY at Siena

150 hours in two years

• DIDACTICS OF THE MATHEMATICS - 35 hours
• PROBLEMS AND PROBLEM SOLVING - 15 hours
• LOGICS AND SET THEORY - 20 hours
• ARITHMETIC AND INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRA - 30 hours
• GEOMETRY - 35 hours
• PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS - 15 hours