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Hi, i'm a kindergarten teacher in Volos, central Greece.We have a lot of migrants and refugees in my town.

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I am not a teacher, i am counsellor prychologist and i interesting about this topic in order to understand better the concept and to be able to help other people to understand and to behave with the proper way to newly arrived migrants.

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Hi everyone. I teach in a high school in Ploiesti. We aren't refugees, but we have many gipsy and that it's like a migrants, because they have their own traditions. I would like to collaborate to their integration.

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Hello, I am Marialuisa and I live in Brindisi. I teach in a primary school in Salento. In my town there aren't many migrants and in our classroom there are few student of Romenian or Albanian peolpe.

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Hello, I am Marialuisa and I live in Brindisi. I teach in a primary school in Salento. In my town there aren't many migrants and in our classroom there are few student of Romenian or Albanian peolpe.

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I am Cosima from Lecce, I teach in a high school in Salento.
In my town there aren't many migrants and in our classroom there are few students who are sons of Romanian or Albanian people.
Salento is located in Puglia the heel of Italy, between the Adriatic and Ionic sea.Thefore Salento is the route for migrants.I would like to
collaborate and share integration issues, in order to learn more.

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Hello I'm Angela and I live in Ercolano next to Naples. I.m a english teacher in a primary school. In my school there are two students who are adopted by italian people.they are russian and portoguese they are well integrate but before thet had some language problems

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Hello to everyone! I am a primary school teacher. I teach in a third class consisting of 23 students. These are the presence of a Romanian and a Chinese. The latter is in Italy since September and understands very little Italian But above all it fails to express myself. I use a lot of images and much point on peer collaboration, ensuring integrationRosa,Ital

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Hello to everyone! I am a primary school teacher. I teach in a third class consisting of 23 students. These are the presence of a Romanian and a Chinese. The latter is in Italy since September and understands very little Italian But above all it fails to express myself. I use a lot of images and much point on peer collaboration, ensuring integrationRosa,Ital

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Hello everyone I am Angela, I'm a primary school teacher. I teach in a class of 23 children. There are: a Moroccan child, two children from Ukraine and one from Romania.

MODULO 1.
The situation of newly arrived migrants

1.1 Getting Started

The situation of migrants and newly arrived refugees is a complex subject and I have no information gaps. My goals for this course is to better understand the situation and learn to help migrant children and newly arrived refugees.

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HELLO everyone. I am teacher in a primary school on Italy. In My town there are many migrants and I hope this course will help me to know something more about the situation of newly arrivant migrants

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Hello everyone, my name's Valentina and I am an English teacher in a midde school near Reggio Calabria. This area is continuously subject to migratory flows coming from Africa and Middle-East countries. At the moment I have foreign students but none of the can be defined as a "migrant". With some (Rumenian especially) we have some initial problems with language, and I'd like to learn more about strategies and approaches to these newly arrived kids.

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Hi everybody , my name is manuela basurto and I come from Italy where I teach in upper secondary school. The increasing presence of students coming from abroad is the reason why I'd like to know more about it

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Hi, I am highschool teach from Croatia and an eTwinning group moderator of Inlcusive Education. There aren't many migrants in my small town, but I have some experience in teaching students from different countries, like Albania, Macedonia who came to live with their families in this part of EU. Thier main problem at first is usually the language barrier, but with extra help from our language teachers and society, like having friends they overcome it very fast. I am more interested in how to explain the newly arrived migrants our culture, are they supposed to learn it and how are we to accept theirs. I am very tolerant as a person myself and I teach that my students as well, as well as my sons. What are we to expect from migrants? What is your experinece in tecahing the EU culture and customs? Are they supposed to accept them as they are?

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Hello, I teach in a secondary school, in Romania. We do not have migrants in our school, but I have been involved in an eTwinning project on this topic and my students were really interested and helpful towards migrants from Greece. Also, we visited a centre for for refugees, here, in Romania. There are many Romanian migrants leaving abroad too, so, I should be able to teach my students about inclusion, diversity and acceptance.

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Hello, I teach in a primary school and my students have between seven and eight years. In my classes there aren't foreign students .  In my school there are not refugees,

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I live in Albania and most of my coo patriots are now days being migrants all over the world. i would like to know a lot about how they do arrange living normallly abroad

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Hello everyone. I teach in secondary education in Athens. There are students from migrant backgrounds but because of the level (Upper High) and the aim (University Entry) of the school, most of them have already adjusted. My subject is civil studies and we teach about migrants and refugees, human rights, asylum and other similar issues. It is important to know how to approach these issues, as to not offend and mislead students. I have personally joined solidarity organisations to help and support migrants and refugees that arrived in Hellas and specifically in Pireas port. It has been a very intense situation, at least until the first "waves" of people came by and everyday came back to normalities.
I do not believe though we shall ever forget the faces of those people and in my eyes, they were the Europeans fledding to Minor Asia during the Second World War, away from the bombs and the starvations, the poor Europeans migrating to Canada, Australia and the US before and after the war, and so many before them...
This is not a problem of others. All nations have been, at least once, in a situation where they felt the need to migrate in bulks.
Respect and humanity if not solidarity is the least we can provide

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Hello there! I 'm very happy to share ideas with all of you. I work as a teacher at a primary school of Patras. We dont have migrant students at my school but i would like to learn inclusion strategies for migrant students.

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I travelled  for many Iyears all over the world. I know the people and thier culture. But this not enough.....I teach in a secondary school and in my class there are no refugees,.
I've decided to follow this course to be prepared,  in the next future, to help the integration of newr migrants.

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Although we haven’t many newly arrived migrants at my classroom, I feel that I am not totally ready to approach such situations. It seems to me difficult to deal with student’s feelings and their language. I hope through this course, I will improve my knowledge about these aspects.

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Hi everyone! I'm Lara.I live and teach in  a primary school in Rome. My students are 7 years old. There are italians but also children from China, Bangladesh, Marocco, Romania, Honduras and Burkina Faso, born in Italy and their countries of origin. It's a multicultural school. I like working there.As a teacher I worked in Rome in different schools attended  by migrants, in Courses of Italian in German Primary schools and in the Italian Primary school of Asmara, in Eritrea. I've always been interested in Cultural themes, Migrants, teaching italian as a second languagebut I never had refugees as pupils. I would like to learn more about the topic of this course to be able to welcome migrants, refugees in class and help them to be well integrated in the school community and in the society. i think school can make a lot in this direction. It's a big challange. Let's see....

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Hi, I teach English in a Secondary School in Italy. Though I live in a region with two borders (Austria and Slovenia) and in a town which hosts many new migrants I feel I do not know much, and certainly not enough. I somehow assumed that I knew a lot, but the mere listening of the two vidoes made clear to me that I still have a long way to go.
I'm here to fill these gaps!

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Allthough I live in Greece I dont feel very good informed about the rights of immigrants and therefore I do not feel so confident talk about that in the classroom with my students. That is why I attend this mooc!

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Hi, everybody! I'm an experienced EFL teacher and I work in an Athenian primary state school. Attending a course on newly arrived immigrants means to me that I will gain basic information about the global situation of moving populations around the globe, about the way(s) children and adolescents from these groups are included in the educational systems of the countries where they land, about anticipated problems  during the inclusion process and about trouble-shooting in the cases of these problems. The statements of these expectations of mine reflect, I believe, my information gaps and/or the areas I feel less confident about.

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Hello, I’m Rania. I teach French as a second language in primary school. In Greece there is an alarming increase in the number of refugees and migrants arriving from all over the world. According to data provided by the Institute for the Greek Diaspora Education and Intercultural Studies 9,5% of the total school population fell in the categories foreign or co-ethnics and returnees. I would like to learn more about the newly arrived migrants' situation in order to be more able to face the challenges.

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Hello I'm an Italian teacher in Secondary School dealing above all with students with special educational needs.
I've worked in classes with second generation migrants students and cooperated as a vonlunteer with NGO.
I am attending this course because I feel the need to be updated to overcome my misinformation and those
prejudices that arise around this topic.Certainly school can help to create a more supportive social enviroment.

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Hi everybody! I teach English in a Secondary School in Calabria. As you know,  my region  constantly hosts migrants and refugees and as teacher I have to face and manage different students' backgrounds. In the past I had seven pupils coming from Africa. They were minors and refugees. They experienced war in their countries and a terrible journey  across Africa and to reach Europe. Some of them went to prison in Libia because they didn't have any documents and when war broke out there, they have been forced to leave Libia for Europe. They didn't want to come here! I will never forget the pain and dignity in their eyes. I did my best to help them but I think Italian school system is still unprepared to face the tragedy these people experience in their life. Teachers need the support of organizations and institutions. I felt  lonely. Today I'm working with two girls and a boy coming from Egypt. I'm teaching them Italian. In Italy a foreign student has to attend a class according to his/her age and no preparatory courses are provided to help them with the new language and new subjects at school. It depends on the decisions of each school, there isn't a common line. I think this is really unfair and for teacher is hard work to fill the gap between foreign students and italian students. I hope that this second course will help me to learn more about the newly arrived migrants and to get useful information to deal with institutions and organizations working where I live. I don't want to be lonely anymore!

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Hello everybody

I am teacher in a secondary school of Calabria. My school is near a refugee camp.

I met some refugees and I understand their hard lives thanks to their stories but my main problem is to explain them our country’s laws. I feel powerless. Once a month I am volunteer in a church canteen, too. I feel pain for their situations. Though I have already met many migrants and refugees and our town is hospitable I don’t feel confident about new strategies for their inclusion mainly in our schools. So I hope to learn more.

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Teaching in a rural part of Germany, I do not encounter that many people with a migration background. One the one hand, I feel quite confident when it comes to meeting students from different countries because I enjoy meeting new people in general. Furthermore, I have been to a number of different countries all over the world, and like to observe people’s behaviour. However, I have no idea what needs students with a migration background have and how I can appropriately address them in class. Therefore, I hope to increase my awareness of notions that come with growing up in different cultures and to enhance my teaching practice accordingly.

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I used to teach in a secondary school in Brussels. Quite a few of my students are migrants or come from migrant families and a couple of them are refugees. My main problem is that sometimes, as teachers, we are not informed about the background of our students, we rarely know why they came to Belgium and don't always take the time to discuss this with the students when they arrive in class or we don't know if they feel confident to discuss this with the whole group. In the current context in Belgium, teachers in urban areas are easily accused of "racism" by the students (above all a 100% Belgian person as I am) as sometimes "clumsiness" due to a lack of information can be misinterpreted so it might seem easier to avoid discussion even though cultural difference is very enriching for the whole group. Another problem is that working with so many different nationalities, international contexts and conflicts are omnipresent at school and without being well-informed, it is difficult to avoid void discussion and foster productive debates.

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Hi, I teach in a secondary school as a Physical Education. in my class aren't present refugees, but
I've decided to follow this course to be prepared, in the present and in future, to help the integration of newly arrived migrants.

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Angela Maria, Italy  Hello! I am very happy to start this course because I think is offers me an opportunity to develop useful competences to use in classrooms. I teach in a primary school and my students have between six and seven years. In my schoo there are foreign students from Marocco. They are well integrated in the group class and relate positively with all their companions. In my school there are not refugees, but I'm interested to explore new teaching methods to create a good a collaborative atmosphere in class and to build solid and positive relationships. A teacher must first know the student's culture and its way of life and then proceed to teaching.

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Angela Maria, Italy  Hello! I am very happy to start this course because I think is offers me an opportunity to develop useful competences to use in classrooms. I teach in a primary school and my students have between six and seven years. In my schoo there are foreign students from Marocco. They are well integrated in the group class and relate positively with all their companions. In my school there are not refugees, but I'm interested to explore new teaching methods to create a good a collaborative atmosphere in class and to build solid and positive relationships. A teacher must first know the student's culture and its way of life and then proceed to teaching.

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The integration of an immigrated person is important especially at school. It's important to know how to do it. I think It's also essential to underline the things in common and give value ti the diversity. How to do it is a problem I often think about.

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Hello, I am professional high school teacher. We have many students from different countries. Afghanistan and especially Syria. I am getting information from my media, from my friends, from officials and politicians. I am feeling cmore confident about refugees. Bucause they are living beside my apartment. we have living as a neighbors. I am helping sometimes. Many of them living pretty bad conditions. We have approxiamte 3 million refugees from syria. So we everyday talking about refugees.

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I'm a pre-school and primary school teacher. I teach French as second language in Belgium to children from 2,5 to 10 years old.
I feel like to learn more about the subject of the course. We don't have any refugees in our school, but we have many migrants children coming mostly from Romania, Portugal and Morocco.
I believe , as a teacher, I want to know more about migration in my countries (Belgium and Italy) and also about regulation and political agreements.
I think I have to be aware about the situation of migrants in order to be helpful in the process of integration of new arrived migrants.

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In my school we have several migrants but we still do not have refugees, if they come they will be well received.

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I'm a primary school teacher of newly arrived migrant children in Vantaa, Finland. I would like to learn more about the laws regulating migration and also I want to learn how to present the issue in a professional manner. Right now I feel deeply ashamed of my own country because Finland is violating the non-refoulement principle grossly by forced deportings of whole families to Afghanistan
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I am a mother tongue teacher and a study guide from Sweden so I constantly work with pupils with migrant background. Because in Sweden arrived last year a high number of refugees and migrants, the topic is much discussed and we, as pedagogues, have to talk about this reality with our pupils. I would like to learn new strategies that I can use while I address this topic in my classroom.

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I'm a math teacher in a primary school in Cazin, but because of the war in BiH (1992-1995) I had the opportunity to work with children refugees.

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Hello to all. I am a teacher in a secondary school. I teach physical education and support for children with special needs. In my class there aren't students with refugee status, but only migrants who are in Italy for several years. In my home country, I frequent during the summer, but I got to know the boys hosted refugees and I was impressed by their stories. I think sleep in class these kids it's hard because teachers must also possess psychological skills but I think even that would be an excellent resource for teaching kids the dialogue, confrontation and acceptance. I hope that in the future I will be lucky enough to work with refugee children.

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Cinzia, Rome. Migrants are to be considered as a source of diversity and a positive aspects of globalisation and the elimation of boundaries. Unfortunately, I realise that today they have become in some cases the object of political interest. 

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Cinzia, Rome. Migrants are to be considered as a source of diversity and a positive aspects of globalisation and the elimation of boundaries. Unfortunately, I realise that today they have become in some cases the object of political interest. 

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Hi everyone, I'm Gianluca I teach music instrument in secondary school in south of italy near naples and caserta. my students have 10 to 19 years. I have few information about difference between migrant and refugees. I would want to understand more why them are obligate to leave their origin countries and if they succeed to accept the conditions of life of that the host country
Instagram: Gianliukk
tackk:https://tackk.com/@Gianliukk/tackks

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Hy everybody! My name's Maria and I'm an Italian teacher. I teach in a kindergarten situated in a multiethnic area of Naples. My students are from 3 to 5 years. The situation of newly arrived migrants and refugees is a complex topic and it can seem quite daunting to start addressing this topic in the classroom. The aspects of this topic I'd like to explore are  the reasons that obligate migrants and refugees to leave their origin countries. 

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Hy everybody! My name's Maria and I'm an Italian teacher. I teach in a kindergarten situated in a multiethnic area of Naples. My students are from 3 to 5 years. The situation of newly arrived migrants and refugees is a complex topic and it can seem quite daunting to start addressing this topic in the classroom. The aspects of this topic I'd like to explore are  the reasons that obligate migrants and refugees to leave their origin countries. 

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Hy everybody! My name's Maria and I'm an Italian teacher. I teach in a kindergarten situated in a multiethnic area of Naples. My students are from 3 to 5 years. The situation of newly arrived migrants and refugees is a complex topic and it can seem quite daunting to start addressing this topic in the classroom. The aspects of this topic I'd like to explore are  the reasons that obligate migrants and refugees to leave their origin countries. 

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Hy everybody! My name's Maria and I'm an Italian teacher. I teach in a kindergarten situated in a multiethnic area of Naples. My students are from 3 to 5 years. The situation of newly arrived migrants and refugees is a complex topic and it can seem quite daunting to start addressing this topic in the classroom. The aspects of this topic I'd like to explore are  the reasons that obligate migrants and refugees to leave their origin countries. 

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Hy everyone!
I'm Italian ICT teacher in secondary school,  i studied  linguistic and cultural mediation so i prepared myself about cultural diversity.
Despite this, i still don't feel ready to open a discussion with my students at school about this theme.
I feel like i'm sensitive about this subject and i feel that prejudgment and rush on judgment during a classroom discussion on this subject can spoil the progress on the discussion

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Hi everybody!

Greetings from Portugal!
I'm Portuguese and I teach Music, Education and citizenship in a Júnior Highschool in Setúbal, Portugal. I still have not had direct contact with refugees, although in Setúbal some families have already arrived. I would like to know some ways to approach this topic with my students, especially in the subject of education and citizenship. From a multicultural perspective, it is very important to develop activities in order to provide a raising awareness about this problem. I am very expectant, regarding educational strategies that allow me to approach this subject with good results. I also consider it very important to know other social and educational realities, from other participants, and to know how they are dealing with the situation.

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Iam a Kindergarten teacher in the center of Thessaloniki Greece and I have seen many newly arrived immigrants on the road. The main feature is that they are moving people from one country to another and they want to leave Greece. I have met in some classrooms some Syrian children of preschool age that are very clever and are incorporated in the classroom. The teachers feel very unconfortable because they don't know what to do. But the love and care make the children feel secure and safe.

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Hello everyone! I am a high school teacher. I teach sociology, politics and ethics. My students are between 15 and 18 years. The migrants come and go through our country, but there are none in my school.

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Hello everyone! I am a teacher of Art at a secondary school level in Rome, Italy. My students are 11 to 13 years old. In recent years I taught in schools where there were also children of refugees Syrian origin. This year, I teach in a school where I am dealing with economic migrants, ie foreigners from North Africa, from China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, arrived from South America to Italy to work. I've followed the previous course, as I imagine many of you, and maybe someone will have already read my comments. I hope that this second course will expand my knowledge and skills in managing cultural diversity in school, because I think it starts from there the possibility of forming abiding citizens and ethically conscious towards the human rights of their compatriots and not.

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I my classroom not stedens are migrants but, would love to learn about European laws and customs of the states that regulate the entry of refugees.
I'd also like to know the reception of refugees instruments.

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My goal for this course is to be more conscious of the actual situation in specific part of the world in order to reflect as a person and as an educator on how Italy could be better involved in the process of protect newly arrived migrants and, at the same time, how to give them a concrete help in terms of shelter, job, education for children and youngsters. Secondarily, I wish to become more confident in talking about these topics in my classes, even if we are non facing one of these situations in first person. Students have the right to be informed properly and in a way that fits their age. My students are from 10 to 14. At this age they are building their own identity and, in my opinion, it is now that they should have the correct instruments to build their own opinions about specific topics of such relevance.

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Which specific aspects of this topic do you feel less confident about? Where do you see your own information gaps? What are your goals for this course?
I teach in italian upper secondary school. Usually we have here some sons of migrants,  but they're well integrated in local community and we have not any particular problem of racism.
I'd like to know more about numbers and procedures about migrants and migration.
But mainly I'd like to know more about didactic strategies and methods to let pupils aware about this theme.

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Hello!
I'm Loredana from Italy.
I have been teaching in a Liceo of Human Sciences for 11 years. There aren't  any refugees but the topic of immigration is constantly discussed. I would like to learn more about the newly arrived migrants' situation. I wish I could get useful information from this course in order to face better the difficulties that refer to this topic and lead my students to create a better atmosphere in class and confident to deal with the specific theme.

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Maria Intrieri, Roma-ItalyHello everyone! I am a teacher of Art at a secondary school level in Rome, Italy. My students are 11 to 13 years old. In recent years I taught in schools where there were also children of refugees Syrian origin. This year, I teach in a school where I am dealing with economic migrants, ie foreigners from North Africa, from China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, arrived from South America to Italy to work. I've followed the previous course, as I imagine many of you, and maybe someone will have already read my comments. I hope that this second course will expand my knowledge and skills in managing cultural diversity in school, because I think it starts from there the possibility of forming abiding citizens and ethically conscious towards the human rights of their compatriots and not.

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Maria Intrieri, Roma-ItalyHello everyone! I am a teacher of Art at a secondary school level in Rome, Italy. My students are 11 to 13 years old. In recent years I taught in schools where there were also children of refugees Syrian origin. This year, I teach in a school where I am dealing with economic migrants, ie foreigners from North Africa, from China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, arrived from South America to Italy to work. I've followed the previous course, as I imagine many of you, and maybe someone will have already read my comments. I hope that this second course will expand my knowledge and skills in managing cultural diversity in school, because I think it starts from there the possibility of forming abiding citizens and ethically conscious towards the human rights of their compatriots and not.

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Hello and nice to meet many of you again attending this second  course  in the series.Now I feel less shy because I learnt to share my ideas with other people on this important and current topic.This second part is also very interesting.
Watching these two first videos I have understood the differeces between simple migrants  and refugees.My goal joining this course is to become able to work in my secondary school classrooms with both , my talian students and the newly arrived migrants.

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Hello, I teach preschool in a small town. We have a lot of economic migrants in our town & school but no experience of refugees, yet. I recently visited Berlin to look at how they have been working to help refugee children access their education system. This was a British Council NI funded study visit.

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Hello, I'm Eleni and I used to teach french in public schools in Greece. I find this course very interesting because I would like to learn new approaches and methods concerning teaching in a class of new comers. When I had students who came from neighbouring countries, I tried to make them feel comfortable and to learn as much as I could about their personal stories, their countries, their traditions and their families. The difficult part was to create a good and hospitable environment in the class as well as a team spirit as some of the students felt uncomfortable with their new classmates.

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Hello, I'm Claudia, I teach English as a second language in secondary school and I love my job. Courses like this one and the previous one on intercultural competence are a gift to me, as I have always been bery interested in intercultural awareness and here I can find and share lots of tools and material to be used in class, and not only in class. I am thrilled to be part of this Learning community.

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In some cases I had the impression to don't know sufficiently about the state of origin of migrants. A base knowledge about iter and international/national laws would be necessary.

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Hello, I teach German in a secundary school in the South of Italy. Even if there aren't many migrants or refugees in my school, I find the topic of this course very important for me. Some years ago I was teacher in a school with an high percentage of migrant students. It wasn't easy, but it represented for me an opportunity to know other cultures, to learn that cultural diversity represents an enrichment for all students and teachers. I can say that also the small city where I live is a multicultural reality, even if unfortunately there isn't a real integration between the different communities.

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Hello, I teach English in a secondary school in the north of Italy. I am aware that the topic of the course is very important and that my knowledge on the matter is not good, so I am here to learn from you all and share my experiences.

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I am a teacher at a lower level Secondary School (aged 10 -17) in the northwest of Germany. The student body has a wide range of ethnic and educational backgrounds, mostly non-German. Many disputes at school resolve from clashes between cultures and religions.

Physics, wood-working and Technology are the subject for which I have my teaching degree..

One and a half years ago many refugees and migrants arrived in our town in Germany. Most of the children aged 10 – 16 were assigned to our school. They are approximately 20% of the student population.  I was forced to teach 10 periods a week of German and German culture to the new students. Am I qualified? Not really. My only qualifications were that I am a foreigner and learned German by living here, not in school. So, I went from teaching Physics to teaching how to get through the day without understanding German and learning at the same time. There were 15 students from 12 countries in my class. Arabic or “Slavish” was common between them. English is my native tongue. I have learned many new aspects about life around the world. But, if you don’t leave your homeland for love as I did, then you leave it like many of the children, because you have nothing to lose. Life couldn’t get any worse. No food, no water and death and torture everywhere. So the only hope to survive is to leave for the unknown.

After being forced to swim in cold water, I found that I really enjoyed working with these students. It is very rewarding. I have a strong bond with many of them. Most of these pupils are now participating in regular classes and taking the same exams as the pupils that have always gone to school in Germany.

I joined this course hoping to be able to get more knowledge and how handle the topic in the best way and to feel more comfortable doing it. These uprooted children need to be integrated into student body. Now that they are no longer in “safety”, my special German class, misunderstandings and conflicts are starting to arise due to differences in heritage and religion.

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I have knowledge through the news and newspapers of my country. They take an approach of solidarity and understanding of refugee life dramas. We are all sensitized. The cases of integration known in our country have been successful. However, I understand that coming in large numbers is scary and raising fears in other countries.
My greatest difficulty would be to live with the distrust or difficulty of acculturation of the new emigrants.

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I am a primary school teacher in an Experimental primary school in Alexandroupolis, a city located in NorthEast Greece, near the Greek and Turkish borders. In our school we don't have yet newly arrived kids. Refugees coming from Syria with boats, stay in our city for a short time and then move to hosting centers in other Greek cities. But I still remember the 2 girls who came 3 years ago in our school's gym club. They were from Avganistan and they stayed here for a couple of months waiting to travel to German to meet their parents. I remember myself being uncofident to handle the emotional part of the topic. This school year I started an eTwinning project about the origins of the Mediterranean Sea and the emotions we feel seeing all this bad situation, trying to discuss the topic with the pupils. This is the reason I joined this course hoping to be able to get more knowledge and handle the topic in the best way.

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I teach in a multicultural school attended by adults and young people all migrants. somr are refugees some newly arrived. It's an interesting contest where you can see all kinds of aspects of ther problem of migrants. You never stop learning about! I want to know more because things change every day.

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Hello! I am an  secondary school teacher in Berat ,Albania
In my school there are no refugees or newly-arrived migrants. With the help of  this course I would like to learn how to approach this subject, how to inform my students about the influx of migrants in our country

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Hello everyone, I am a primary school teacher. I am almost 20 years I teach in this type of school and I'm very happy to be a teacher. Last year I had a pupil who came from Libya, but he wasn't a refugee. Initially he didn't know a  word in Italian, but I was amazed how easily the child learned to speak  the italian language. Even this year I have two foreign children in fifth class. They come from Romania and also they easily learned to speak Italian. I hope that with this course I can learn new integration strategies.

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Hello! I am a primary school teacher and my school is located near the center of Athens. We have students from many different countries, mainly economic migrants who live and work many years in Greece and can speak the greek language. The last few years, we have faced another situation: newly arrived migrants who can't speak the language and don't now if they stay in our country. Although the great challenge is the newly arrived refugees, who have started coming to our shool (20 until now) the last few months and they need, first of all, psychosocial support.
I agree that is a very complex and sensitive topic and by this course I expect to fill my information gaps and start addressing this topic in my classroom with more confident.

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Hello! I am an upper secondary school teacher in Athens, Greece. In my school there are no refugees or newly-arrived migrants. With the help of  this course I would like to learn how to approach this subject, how to inform my students about the influx of migrants in our country and shape a positive attitude towards the newcomers.

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I am currently teaching at a State Primary School near Athens. There are not refugees in my classes, except for a couple of children who had enrolled at first but then quit. It is difficult to address such sensitive issues among young pupils, that is why I try to refer to the humane aspect of the news brought by the media, excluding the violent one. I would feel uncomfortable trying to find the right words and body language were there refugee children in my classes. That is why I am looking for expert advice and tips as to how to approach newcomers.

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Hi, I am a secondary school teacher in Lazio region. I have  migrant students which have difficulties to communicate with other  students. I am interested to follow this course to understand better  the immigration issue.

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Hi! I am a Science teacher who currently has the responsability of coordinating a Junior High School in Setúbal, a beautiful coastal city
near Lisbon.

Until a few years ago, before being a democratic country, Portugal was a country of great emigration, mainly of an economic but also of political nature. Many Portuguese also sought better living conditions in the former African colonies (Angola, Mozambique, ...).

After the revolution of April 1974, with the introduction of the democratic regime followed the decolonization of these countries and returned to Portugal approximately 1 million Portuguese fleeing from the Civil War that settled in the former Portuguese colonies. These Portuguese, fleeing from the war came without anything being necessary that the Portuguese state provides them the basic conditions of subsistence, housing, employment, that is, to integrate them. This integration was not easy because these newcomers, even if Portuguese, were viewed with suspicion as they threatened jobs and brought with them different ideas and customs.  More recently, prior to the current financial crisis, Portugal received many of second generation migrants, mostly from Portuguese-speaking African countries, from Brazil, from some eastern countries, and more recently from China.  The "refugees" or "newly arrived migrants", that we well know by the “news”, only recently started to be placed in Portugal but I think well as a teacher, with increased responsibilities in the management, either as a person It is my duty to seek to facilitate their integration. This was the main reason why I enrolled in this course

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Hi! My name is Solange. I teach English in a Júnior Highschool in Setúbal. I haven't had so far in my classes any newly migrants or refugees, though in my city there are a lot of second generation migrants, but they are ,mostly from the former portuguese african colonies. The first "refugees" or "newly arrived migrants" only recently started to be placed in Portugal. My first contact with refugees and this new migration was, actually, in Greece during a study visit, five years ago. I really think that as a teacher I need  to be prepared to deal with this topic.

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Hallo, my name is Vassiliki. I live and teach in Crete in a upper secondary school.
I do not realy have a multicultural class. My students are mostly greek or second  genaration migrants.
I have no confidens in brigging the sublect in a class of teenagers that many of them have already formed their opinions. I need to find a way ti do it right with out leaving gaps and spreading wrong information to my students.

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Hello!My name is Angeliki. I am a teacher in a secondary school in Thessaloniki. Specifically I teach literary subjects to students between 12-15 years old. The school I volunteer offers corroborative teaching to lower economical families. So far I do not have a newly arrived person-migrant as a student but I have students from Albania between the greek ones. Also, personally, I am not aware of the situation of newly arrived migrants except from what I am hearing from tv news. So I have got a lot of information gaps and I feel extremely vulnerable to such issues. My primary goal is to learn as more as I can in order to work professionally in this field in the future. For this reason I have already attended a non governmental volunteering organisation which called "metadrasi" here in Thessaloniki in order to gain experience with refugees. Furthemore I have attended an educational 6month seminar in aegean university about intercultural education and instructional methodology.

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Hi everybody! My name's Graziella. I'm an Italian  French Teacher in a lower secondary school. I hope that with this course I will improve my knowledge about the situation of newly arrived refugees. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY!

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My name is Alicia, I just joined the

Situation of Newly Arrived Migrants online course!

I am from Spain but living in Belgium!
I would like to learn more from all the teachers around Europe and their experiences with migrants & refugees.
I am working in EfVET, the European Forum of Vocational Education & Training, we just started an Erasmus + programme project, named LikeHome, which is looking into education & integration for migrants & refugees.
Today, we are all migrants. In my personal case, I migrated looking for a better opportunities due to the economic situation of my home country. Therefore, I feel ashamed watching the headlines from the Greek and Morocco borders. Watching how the European authorities are letting to do the dirty job to other countries and how our sea, the Mediterranean, has become the biggest cemetery.
Nevertheless, once they reach our countries we have the responsibility to help them and to extend our solidarity to them.
In my personal opinion, the first action should be attend their health & social necessities. Once they will established,  education is key for integration of them, that's why I let you an introduction video with the online linguistic support for refugees in the previous post!
I am looking forward to learn from all of you!

https://padlet.com/ag19/foy8onpdcu2k

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Hi everybody!

I’m Roberta, I’m a teacher in a primary school in Turin.

I have been teaching in this order of school from 2001, nevertheless , this is the First time that I teach in a First Class.

My class is composed by 22 students and 8 of them are foreigners (only one was born abroad  while  the other had one or both parents born in another country.

So in my classroom there are: 3 Romanian, 1 Albanian, 1 Russian, 1 Peruvian, 1 Maroccan and 1 Brasilian students.

My school  is in Turin’s periphery  that  is mutietnic and offer us a lot of activities (cultural and sportive).

I am a psychotherapist, I’m married and I have got two children too.

I like my job, I like it very much. I love it because I think that everyday can be an occasion to learn something because everyone may  teach something to others. So, everyday I have 22 teachers! I’m so lucky!

I like to use tecnology and fantasy during my lessons, but I belive that the most important teaching method is a serene atmosphere where everyone can be himself, increase their self-esteem. For all of these reason, I belive in the importance of enchance own origins, own culture and, consequently, own uniqueness.

https://padlet.com/condomittir/mwv5pj40zcjt

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Hello everybody,
My name is Daniela and I am romanian teacher.

I hope that in this course I will acquire  more ideas about how to manage about the situation of the newly arrived refugees.

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Hello there! I'm Deppie from Greece and I'm a recently graduated Primary  School Teacher. The course is very helpful and i hope for the best! Generally, I believe that it's easy to get more information about all the aspects of the topic even if someone is not well informed or even ignorant! The most difficult task for me is how to address this topic with the students and with the refugees or migrants. If you have to do only with indigenous students and you are preparing them for the arrival of migrants or refugees then you can freely discuss with them the situation of refugees/migrants and what problems they are facing or why they left from their countries, or examine the journeys that refugees take to Europe. On the other hand, you cannot do the same with the refugees,especially, students and that's because it's a very sensitive topic for them. In my opinion they all know well why they left from their countries and what the situation in their countries is. The only thing they want is to forget about their past and start a new life from the beginning. Teachers need to be beside them in every step they take and help them in their new life.

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Hello, everybody. This course is so helpful, and thank you Nora and Wolfgang!
My name's Sanja. I'm half Croatian and half Serbian from Split, Croatia. I used to work as a journalist and anthropologist. Now, I'm a teacher of Croatian language and literature in a primary school. I have a student from Venezuela and we are expecting some immigrants maybe next year.
Croatia is on the Balkan route. Due to the fact that we can expect more immigrants in the future, we must be ready. So, I want to know more about psychological support for the war victims. And I'm interested in  legal issues (refugee status seekers)...
(After the war in Croatia, it is very important to work on good relations between Croats and Serbs in Croatia! I'm from multicultural family: my mum is Croatian, my father Serbian... I have Italian, Bulgarian, and islamic heritage, so my family is my first teacher about cultural diversity. War - another teacher, unfortunately! I know a lots of migrants, a lot about their life stories, and I want to share and promote a peace! )
My students are reading Parvana's Journey and that's great opportunity for empathising and learning about causes of migration and psychological impact on immigrants.

Parvana's Journey by Deborah Ellis

(In Parvana's Journey, the Taliban still control Afghanistan, but Kabul is in ruins. Parvana's father has just died, and her mother, sister, and brother could be anywhere in the country. Parvana knows she must find them. Despite her youth, Parvana sets out alone, masquerading as a boy. She soon meets other children who are victims of war...) ETC. :-)

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Hi everybody! My name is Ilaria and I work as a Spanish teacher in a middle school near Florence. I work with students coming from different countries, especially China. I realize that teaching Spanish to Chinese or Moroccan pupils is a very hard job due to several reasons: they have  different cultures and ways of life, and above all,  they speak difficult  languages. It is very complicated to communicate with them as soon as they get to school and to create a good relation between all the students.  I hope to find helpful and interesting advices attending this course .

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Hi everybody! I teach English and Italian as a Second Language in lower secondary school. Living in Italy I deal everyday with migrants and sometimes even with newly arrived migrants in my school. This is the reason why I am interested in this series of courses on interculturality. I need to improve my knowledge and understanding of interculture for my everyday teaching practice and class management.

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Hello, everybody. My name is María and I am a secondary teacher on the southern coast of Spain. My school hosts students from more than 50 different countries. They have come here mainly for economic reasons. I am enthusiastic about this course because I expect to learn strategies, procedures and class activities that improve my teaching practice with diverse students.

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Greetings from Italy. I taught mathematics for many years in primary school and for some time I have the job of assistant vicar of the principal in a large comprehensive school in Verona. My institute is made up of four schools, two primary and two secondary schools, where there are students from 5 to 14 years of age. For years, there are many students from various countries of the world. We are so accustomed to deal with situations and immigration issues. I believe, however, that despite constantly hears about immigration and refugees, there is, however, a rather superficial knowledge of the problem. This is why I joined the training course organized by Teacher Academy, in the awareness of the complexity of the problem and in order to better understand the situation of new immigrants arrived.

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Hello everyone! I'm a primary school teacher and I also work with children with learning difficulties. Greece deals with migrants a lot nowadays. Most people are willing to help them, but on the other hand sometimes there is hatre from those who have different culture and religion. We teachers have to bring all students closer to each other,
fighting racism and fear of the unknown. But to do so we have to be very well prepared and informed about the situation.

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Hello everybody, I am an English teacher in a secondary professional school. I teach English in a secondary school and in my classes there are students coming from Albany, Russia and China. I hope to learn how to teach them in a useful way.

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I'm Livia and I teach in a lower secondary school. I'd like to learn new strategies and tools to motivate my students.

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Hello! I am a teacher of special education (students from 13 to 18 years old), at the Integrated Basic School of Praia da Vitória, Azores, Portugal.

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Hello to everyone. I'm an English teacher. I teach in a Secondary School of a Technological Institute. In my class, a first one with 14 years old students, there aren't foreign pupils. in my first years of teaching I worked in Lombardia and I had there lots of students coming from different countries so I have faced the experience of teaching in a multicultural class. I hope to learn new strategies and tools to improve my way of teaching.

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Hello, I teach Maths and Science in lower Secondary School in the North of Italy. In my school we usually have immigrant students from several country. Sometimes it's difficult to contrast fear, ignorance and stereotypes about them

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Hallo, I am an Italian teacher; I teach to high school, my students are adulescent. In my classroom there are three foreign students and I would know how meet their problems and needs to build toghether a pacific community.

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Hello everyone, I am a teacher of primary school and I work with children aged 5 to 12 years. In the place where I work there are many foreigners, but they are almost all immigrants.  The people I know are well integrated in the reality in which they live and certainly they dont face the problems resulting from the trauma of war or persecution.
I feel very interesting to deepen the topics of this course and to continue the path already started with the previous "Cultural Diversity in Your Classroom".

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Hi. I'm a high school teacher near Zagreb. I teach German. My students are between 14-19 years old. In my classes there aren't immigrants or refugees for now, but I think that in the future I may  find myself confronted in a class immigrants or refugees pupils.

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Hı from Turkey.l am an ELT at a highschool in Gumushane in the Blacksea region.ln my city the population of the migrants is not that much as the one in other cities of my countries.at my School we have an Afgan student who is supported by volunteers.His family has difficulty to earn a life here.He is so shy that i sometimes find it hard to make HIM talk

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HELLO I AM A PRIMARY TEACHER IN MILAN.
IN MY SCHOOL THERE ARE MANY KIDS THAT COMES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD AND THE MOST OF THE TIME THEY DON'T HOW TO SPEAK ITALIAN SO IT IS REALY HARD THEIR INTEGRATION.BUT THE KIDS NEVER SE E DIFFERENTS AND S O EVERYTHINGS COMES ALONE BUT AWAYS WITH ARE SUPPORTS

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I’m a secondary school teacher.

I have lots of difficulties in managing a class made up of fifteen students, half of which come from  Morocco.

They can speak Italian quite properly but when they are fed up with lessons ,usually this occur after only 50 minutes , they get apart, start speaking their native language and play bad jokes to Italian students.

In addition they break every rule they can with pleasure.

I tried to do my best: I defended them from other teachers that just wanted to punish them;  I tried to have a dialogue, to understand their inner thoughts,  but when it seem to me to see a progress, they start to behave in a bad way again. They look like they reject our culture  being frightened to forget their roots  and really don’t want to integrate.

Despite this facts, I still  hope to help them to establish a good relationship with the other classmates so that everyone can have a bright future and become an aware citizen.

I know they can or they  wouldn’t have learned our language so quickly but I don’t understand their behavior either what else a can do to make things better; so I decided to enroll this course to get inspired

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I think that Nora is right  above all talking about young students. Most of them don't understand why their familiies ran away from their countries so the est way is talking about other things... try to understand them and their feelings ... they're so young and so sensitive.

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I teach in vocational highschools and because I am a substitute teacher, I move around greek islands. I know and have seen what is happening with refugees and migrants, but to be honest I have not been involved. In school, there are always migrants in the classroom but they are assimilated (they are many years here). I do not believe that I will meet refugees in my classroom because is difficult for someone newly arrived somewhere to learn a craft. I think this course is more personal.

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I'm Italian and i teach Informatics in a secondary school. I work in Sicily where a lot of migrants arrive every day. In my school there are students from East Europe. All of them are well integrated in their classes.

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The migration and the refugees are hot subjects on our society today. At school, I think I would feel less confident when it comes to communication (language differences), tradition and general views about life (different mentality) and  the education approach ( they are use to another view, another approach of teaching-learning process).