Stephen Fry Announces Italian teacher Carlo Mazzone As A Top 10 Finalist | Global Teacher Prize 2020

Watch Stephen Fry announce Italian teacher Carlo Mazzone as a top ten finalist for The Global Teacher Prize 2020. Ten teachers in ten weeks. Who’s next?

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ICT and computer science teacher Carlo Mazzone, from technical institute, the ITI "G. B. B. Lucarelli" in Benevento, southern Italy, was shortlisted for the Global Teacher Prize 2020, after being selected from over 12,000 nominations and applications from over 140 countries around the world.
Carlo Mazzone comes from a family steeped in a proud tradition of education. His father was a headmaster, and his mother and sister were both teachers. Carlo himself initially gained a degree in computer science and worked for several national corporations as an IT consultant. However, he was drawn back to teaching through the technical training courses he conducted while working in the private sector – an experience that also helped shape his scientific approach to teaching. Since 2004, he has worked in the Italian public school system while also maintaining his skills as a consultant and keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in industry – something that informs his teaching and greatly benefits his pupils too.

Carlo Mazzone teaches in an area of high unemployment and his main innovation has been in creating teaching materials based on extensive experience of what works in his subject. Over the years, his books have been nationally published and translated into other languages: his work on C and C++ has become a bestseller in Italy and is also used in some universities. He also holds the official title of Digital Animator, meaning that he guides his school’s implementation of the government’s National Digital Plan. He has set up several e-learning platforms to manage and streamline his students’ work. Lessons are centered around the principle of “vivariumware”, a kind of nursery training material that will go on to encourage and create bigger things.

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