Ritratto di dama (1490–1495)
di Leonardo da Vinci

"Dear Teacher of Italian,

Through my teaching experience, I have realized that many high school students are not accustomed to think critically.

Last year, I decided to create a language course to help my students develop their questioning, probing, analysing, evaluating, and grow as human beings.

I wanted to find an answer to the following questions:

1. How can I extract and include the most important values of Italian culture, language, art, creativity and Humanism into a well designed and interesting language course?

2. How can I have students apply their creativity and insight during the course?

The Critical Thinking Program was born. An intensive and life touching experience that develops through the analysis of some Renaissance masterworks, humanistic milestones, and other aspects of the Italian culture: how they are related to ourselves, how they can inspire us, how we can apply their brilliant insight to our daily life.

Discussing the session, reviewing the paintings and doing the suggested activities will be very interesting and fun for the students and for the teacher. Buon lavoro!"

Maura Garau - CyberItalian Founder and Head Teacher