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Cultural  diversity is a new way of considering our world.It is is a tool to avoid the wars in future.

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Hello! I am preschool teacher.We don't have pupils from other countries .But Cultural diversity is all around us.Our parents go to work in another countries. It is interesting that   we have a few rromani  with another culture.Diversity makes the school to be more interesting.

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I choose this course because I believe that, in our society, is very important to know differents cultures. It is a way to learn each other and to accept another way of life.

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I choose this course because I believe that, in our society, is very important to know differents cultures. It is a way to learn each other and to accept another way of life.

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Graziella Italy

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Working with children  of primary cycle i bilive  it is important to talk about diversity from an early age. By age specific activities we can learn to be tolerant  and to accept anyone theat, whatever skin color.

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Diversity makes the school to be more interesting and gives the teacher the opportunity to show his mastery of teaching.

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I m taking this course because  ı live in a multicultural coutry and ı need to improve myself to have a good education to the newcomers.We should recognise that culturs are the richness of a society. We should learn how to make use of this richness.And the first step is the schools.

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This school year I work in a school with migrants! It is a Lyceum School and students don't speak Greek neither English!
A difficult situation and challengeable teaching as well!
So IT IS TOO important to learn about cultural diversity in my classroom! Isnt it?

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Diversity is the most beautiful feature of the mankind. It is very important to give proof of tolerance and patience just to be able to see the beauty of this aspect.

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Angela de Vito from Naples: Diversity is a good thing

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Angela de Vito from Naples: Diversity is a good thing

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the different cultures in the school is a good way to learn each other. learn tradition, culture etc not only from book but in the real life. I've learnt it during an etwinning project in my school called "Just like me" children and teachers have learnt how diffrent we are but in the same time how we are similar.

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Present and future societies are probably going to have to respond to the question: are we going to live together accepting each other or apart living in fear? I am possitive that democratic societies are built in democratic schools and I would like this course to help me support in the classroom the basic principle that democracy needs diversity and vice versa.

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I'm taking this course  because I have always worked with students from diverse backgrounds  and  I believe that cultural differences can be only positive to school and in life. The task of teachers is to facilitate the integration of students from different cultures proceeds to improve the quality of life of students and their education and I believe that this course can be of help in this respect, giving me ideas and reflection reasons

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I think that the future society will be increasingly multicultural. This requires specific skills to be good professionals. The task of teachers is to facilitate the integration of students from different cultures proceeds to improve the quality of life of students and their education.

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I believe that different cultures are now a reality that we live every day, so find ways to live with them, even if in respect of each, it is a commitment that every teacher must assume as professional duty. Teachers have a responsibility to traformare the differences in growth and development
opportunities.

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Because we can learn with each other and from each other. Especially when it's about each others culture.

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We live in a society with a great presence of other-culture people but for a real multicultural society we need to know each other in every aspect, i think that the School is a good opportunity for pupils (and teachers also) to discover other ways to approach School, learning and life

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Cultural diversity is already happening in our kindergartens and schools, whether is regarding religious background, nationality, ethnicity or handicap we take great care to accommodate everybody.

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I believe that diversity 'makes the differene' and that makes our world better and more beautiful. Cultural diversity in schools should make us as teachers more interested in new cultures, more open minded  and more imaginative.If we adopt a multicultural consciousness our students will become more sensitive and aware.

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Multicultural classes bring the opportunity to discover and learn something new, to enlarge horizon and enhance cross cultural skills. In reference to the European Key Competences for lifelong learning it is important to develop active citizenship and cultural awareness, to foster mobility and pluriculturalism.

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Because cultural diversity should be enriching and not limiting.

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It is true. We have a really important job to teach acceptance to young children, but sometimes I think they are the true teachers. If you look closely to very young children it is not in their nature to criticize, judge or refuse other children. We learn to do that as we grow older and hear other people around us. So many times, children can be a model for us, adults.

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In an increasingly globalized world, it is important to learn to deal with diversity in order to better understand the Other, their behavior, their attitudes and so contribute to a more tolerant world. In this sense, the school has an important role.

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First of all I'm not that good at planning very original lessons so I'm always looking for new ways of presenting "boring stuff' in an attractive way to my students. Cultural diversity could be a starting point for most of my lessons.

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As teachers we all deal with diversity everyday, be it our pupils' diverse skills / needs/ personalities/cultural background. So, it is important not only to acknowledge and accept this fact, but also to know the practical ways how to help the pupils learn how to accept and respect the diversity in their classroom themselves.

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I believe that this course is important becose the teachers need to see the problems from different points of view. and it is possible only by confronting other teachers experience. For me, in our classrooms is important to work on dialogue among boys. Through dialogue they discovered cultural diversity. But the dialogue is not easy and spontaneous, it needs stimulations and educational methodologies. So I thing is important to learn about cultural diversity.

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Hello, my name is Irene and I am a secondary teacher in Spain. I love my job and I feel very grateful to have the opportunity to teach students all around the world. But, as you can imagine, we need help to cope with this new changelling area. So I think this course gives us a great chance to do it. Thanks to all you, helping me learn and grow more and more everyday.

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Hi everyone! My name is Elena, I'm a math teacher at a small school in the rural medium. We don't have students from other countries except those who went with their parents at work and came back. We have a few rromani students which have integrated well, but we still have work tot do with their familly mentality so that they can finish their study.

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We need to talk about cultural diversity because nowadays our classrooms are composed by students from different countries. It's very important to integrate this students for a better experience of life and education.

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I .have decided to take this course because all my classes are full with students who have very different cultural backgrounds and I want to use it to improve my lessons.

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Hello my name is Lorella, I teach Italian in a secondary school in a small city, called Cuneo - Piemonte. My students are aged beetween 11-14, most of them come from different countries, for example China, Albania, Romania, Hungary and north Africa. This course is for me a wonderful opportunity to learn more about other cultures.

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The theme highlighted is a current issue of our life.
We, as teachers, have to adapt to the new challenges and arisen changes in cultural mobility and development.
I personally like to interact with different cultures, share the specificity of mine, learn from the customs of other nations.
Teachers have a decisive role in the intercultural process, they are moderators, raw models, educators.

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I totally agree with the fact that school is the first place where both students and teacher should deal with diversity to understand that the diverse is not a negative thing but a great opportunity to learn and  grow.

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Hi everyone, my name is Priscilla and I’m an Italian Food Science teacher. My students are aged 14- 18, and they come from different countries. The place where I live and work, Prato, is an area characterized by a high density  of Chinese as well as people from Romania. This course is a precious opportunity for me to learn something new about how to make a difference using our cultural differences.

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diversity is interesting! We have to teach to our students that to be different is a quality and an opportunity to enrich our mind. We have to teach to our students to open their mind. They will accept the other and they will be interested in front of different cultures.

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As nowadays cultural diversity is the reality in our schools, I want to learn understanding my students and being tolerant with their differences and to find ways of teaching in order to make them feel “precious members of the team”.

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This theme is very current and relevant, both in society,
as well as in the school context. Teachers have a very important role to play in this intercultural context, because their attitude, practice and training influences
in the educational process and may favor or hinder the cognitive, social and emotional development of pupils as well as to development of skills and capabilities of each.

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We are every day exposed to cultural diversit.I think it's important we open our students' mind to the importance of diversity. The teachers must educate for diversity.They are oru future and we mustn't loose the opportunity to work with their potentiality. 

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We are every day exposed to cultural diversit.I think it's important we open our students' mind to the importance of diversity. The teachers must educate for diversity.They are oru future and we mustn't loose the opportunity to work with their potentiality. 

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We are all different but we laugh and cry the same way.
It is important to teach our children how to do it together.

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Hello,
In the South of Spain, Where my school is, we found many difficulties working with  students from different countries and cultures. There are muslims, that are Spanish, who speaks the language, but sometimes they don't even know our alphabet.
Anglophons are many, and sometimes the point is that at home they only speak English. Their parents never learn our language because they don't need to.
In the last years, we are receiving East students that learns the language very quickly.
I hope find some tools in this course that help me in my dialy work.

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Hello everyone
My name is Lindita and I work in Pashko Vasa School. We have students that have turned from Grecce and Germany .they can hardly speak Albanian and the easy way is to turn language in English sometimes .But they have recuperated our language in this way .We have worked in this way because English language is in every countries curriculum .

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Hello everyone
My name is Lindita and I work in Pashko Vasa School. We have students that have turned from Grece and Germany .they can hardly speak Albanian and the easy way is to turn language in English sometimes .But they have recuperated our language in this way .We have worked in this way because English language is in every

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Hello everyone ,, I am pleasant to tell you that in our country , because of movement of people in different country ,,, and turn back after some time ,,,, we work with pupil in emigrim ,,,,who attend  studies and find difficulties about change in cultural ,,,,of two places , different cultural etc .. we work with that pupils in esspecial programs , after evaluation their level in classroom .We try to include with all activities to integrate with others pupils .

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I'm taking this course because I care a lot about cultural diversity issues and because I work for many years with students from diverse backgrounds. I have always maintained that cultural diversity of the students only brings benefits to school and I believe that the issues that will be discussed in the course will help me confirm my ideas.

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In my school (in Italy) there are students from all parts of the world, although the city in which I teach is small. I try to include every student and, at the same time, to personalize learning, but sometimes it’s difficult to understand what kind of culture belongs to these students, and don’t know how to avoid mistakes in dealing with certain topics .

I expect that this course will give me a clearer picture of what is cultural diversity and, at the same time, gives me tools that can help me in school everyday life.

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This summer I work with kids as a volunteer in a refugees hosting structure  in the centre of Athens. I realize how difficult it is to built a relation with people that come from a different religion - ethnic background, especially when these people came from  a traumatic situation.The most  of these children are going to be in our classes this year, so what I really need is ways to approach them and embed them in the class.

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Culture is not only cuisine, music or art. It's a lived experience unique to each individual and today it appears to have become key in our interconnected world. I think that as educators it's our job to stimulate the intellectual development of pupils and reach out to them in a culturally appropriate way. We must teach them that differences are not an obstacle but they are enrichment.

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I believe that the world will experience a more multicultural smpre size for which to acquire the basic knowledge of multicultural models and skills to bring them in schools is an essential challenge.
particularly our environments, in reference to the South (but not only) of Italy are typically provincial and unwilling to accept the different culture

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I think that true tolerance can be achieved mainly through school education. When we are open minded as teachers and capable of making our students know that the beauty is in every culture (but even the ugliness)...we are contributing to a better world. As Einstein said: " It is easier to break an atom than a prejudice". In my school the 30% of the students come from foreign countries and we don't have all the tools we should to teach them in the right way... but we're doing our best. I'm here because I want to find better ways to involve my students.
I appreciate what Maria Rizza from Sicily writes: we are all different and we really NEED to deal with diversity in its deepest meaning.

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"Sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions we didn't even know we had, and realize that the opposite of them may also be true."  - Derek Sivers Weird, or just different?

We need to teach our children to embrace otherness in order to accept each other.

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Cultural diversity is all around us. Ignoring this factor in our lives is like ignoring that there are men and women. Culture is what has made us who we are. It's such an important factor in our development and in the way we present ourselves to others, we need to learn how to deal with cultural differences in order to be successfull (and happy) in a context of multiculturality.

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For me it is normal to handle with diversity - i am a "mixture" myself - i am portuguese, german, living since ever in austria, with four years passed in italy speaking sometimes (not to good) french and english - not always it is easy to know who i am, i am different depending on the occasions - so i understand the students that have many identities very well an i know about their problems to understand, that they are rich in experiences, sometimes they dont like their diversity themselves, less than the "others" with "only one" identity, nationality... Perhaps its not so spectacular to have "many backrounds" - perhaps its not more, but also not less than to be surely from one country, from one culture.....

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In the private school where I work we have started talking about "multiculturalism" for two years. These changes have offered the possibility to think about the differences between our students and to consider alternatives way to teach. Differences in fact can be an enrichment in the way we project lesson and develop teaching. Also for our pupils differences can be an enrichment; they can have the opportunity to know and understand diversity as what allows to develop their sensitivity and their ability to look at things from different point of views

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Acceptance rather than tolerance is the main difference between what many individuals lack in a culturally diverse world. If we are merely tolerant of one another, we do not reap the full benefits of experiences that we can share among each other and grow as a society. Students minds are ripe for molding and exposing them to different situations which they can utilize later in life, and therefore teaching the importance of cultural diversity is ideal in the classroom as it will give them an opportunity to discover the plethora of benefits that it can bring

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In my opinion,  the presence of multicultural students is  very important. Every day I note that the kids help each other, specially  if they are foreigners. Instead, the chinese students do not speak with  anyone, if not with the Chinese comrades.  In this case, is very difficult to me establishing any relationship with them.

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Cultural diversity is part of our lives. Our students bring their cultural background into the classroom and teachers have to develop intercultural competences.

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Cultural diversity isn't only the future of our society, but it's the present in our classes!

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I think this training project is very important and hope also inspiring to learn more about diversity.
We live in a mutlicultural society and also our classes reflect this reality. So I think it is a big opportunity to read and talk about this topic.
In my opinion, tolerence is the key words to create intercultural classes, not only of course in my school. In any place where we want to teach values connected to respect the diversity.
In our scool we are very interested in stimolate and create an intercultural approach. Every year we prepare the "Intercultural Week" and also the "Listening Week" to investigate the importance of listening the needs of everyone.

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I am attending this course because we live in a multicultural society. Although I do not have multicultural and multilingua casse yet, I am sure I am going to have students from other counteies very soon. I live in the vey South of Sicily where every day migrants arrive and they are arriving  in such a big number, that it is creating logistic problems. Another reason I am attending this course is  because diversity for me is not only refferring to people with different culture and Language; Each of us is a person different from the other. So, dealing with diversity in the widest meaning very important

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I have joined the course because the presence of migrants in Italy is relevant! i have no device to have lessons

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Cultural diversity is nowaday a strong reality in our school (In my classroom there are more foreigner students than italian). From this course I would like to get out some idea and lear some experience to improve my cultural diversity competence.

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In my opinion, cultural diversity can help pupils to improve their language skills, to motivate them for successful project work & to learn more about people from all over the world.
Borders are changing or collapsing. Globalization opens new opportunities for people to relocate, in order to find better works and living conditions. As a result, students and teachers are freequently faced with new and unfamiliar conditions at school. It is vital for all to realize these facts and prepare for changing educational environments

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I have been a high school EFL  teacher for 16 years now. My school is in Rome and I teach 14,15,16,18 olds.
Alicia makes some interesting points: e.g. each human  being is unique, you may  like or dislike the people you are with, but it is a life skill to learn how to get on well with everybody.
I like the idea of giving diversity an open scope: tackling with diversity has become urgent because of migrations, but it is actually in-built in the learning process indipendently from migrations. I'd like to be able to be truly respectful and highly professional at dealing with that.

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In my opinion, cultural diversity can help pupils to improve their language skills, to motivate them for successful project work & to learn more about people from all over the world. Here's our great experience regarding to it based on American traditions in celebrating Thanksgiving Day. Hope that you'll like it! Enjoy!

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School offers the only true, organized "container" for learning about intercultural competence. In the adult world, such systematic opportunities do not exist and we see the consequences - we don't have the chance to really communicate with people from other cultures in an open way, about their languages, their traditions, even their difficulty in adapting to our societies. At best, we are friendly, cordial, but asking a lot of questions seems invasive. At school, teachers who stimulate curiosity and conversation about the different cultures present in the classroom are helping break down invisible barriers that can form very easily between students. Just like many other social issues, often it is the student who goes home and "educates" his/her parents about issues.

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Cultural diversity is the reality of the day to day life in our school and in our countries, so everyone of us has to not only learn but also teach how to deal with this new environment

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Hello, I am a teacher of the School of Second grade Secondary. I teach in a school for Building Surveyors in Avezzano, a small town in central Italy. I do not teach in a classroom, but I organize projects for the school involving both teachers and the boys. So hi various contacts with young people from other nations, but always with the presence of their teacher curriculum.

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1.1 Why address cultural diversity in schools?
In my school there are a lot of students who are from different backgrounds, some students barely speak Portuguese, and this complicates learning because do not realize what the teachers say.
I also have some students who do not like to work with their peers and often say it is because they are from another country, or another color ...
As I have some students with these characteristics would like to learn in this course the best way to help students become involved with each other regardless of skin color, language or belief.

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1.1  Why address cultural diversity in schools?

There are many forms of diversity in the classroom. I am taking the course because it is important for a teacher to know the different attitudes of loneliness and distress. There aren’t many immigrant students in my school and I see few immigrant students, second generation, attending school successfully. There are other aspects of diversity. My students belong to a linguistic minority group. This group try to promote a positive image of minority language. At the European level, linguistic diversity is seen as a patrimony that must be protected, but it's not true! Our students don’t see the maintenance of minority languages  as a priority but as an inconvenience especially for families socioeconomically and culturally disadvantaged. For this reason, teachers must work to create a relaxed atmosphere in the classroom. I see classroom climate as a major determiner of classroom behavior and learning. I think it is necessary understanding how to establish and maintain a positive classroom climate especially to improve the relationship with/among students. I think it is very useful for teachers to have a support!

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Borders are changing or collapsing. Globalization opens new opportunities for people to relocate, in order to find better works and living conditions. As a result, students and teachers are freequently faced with new and unfamiliar conditions at school. It is vital for all to realize these facts and prepare for changing educational environments

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Intercultural competence is a very important skill that teachers and learners need in order to build positive relationships and create an emotionally safe learning environment. For instance, a simple gesture like a thumb-up can lead to a misunderstanding between people from different cultural backgrounds: taken as a sign of approval in many European countries, it is taken as an offence by people from Afghanistan (the latter use it in the same way as others do with a middle finger). There are a number of similar examples! Those include not only gestures but also eye-contact patterns, physical distance patterns, waiting time patterns in spoken language while taking turns or responding to questions, and more. Successful communication in modern society is impossible without intercultural competence.

As for school staff (teachers, support workers, etc.), they should take cultural diversity into account at every stage of planning teaching and learning activities, e.g. selecting or designing resources requires careful consideration of the content (some might be case-sensitive, others may trigger an argument between people from different cultures), visual aids, and even teacher language (both verbal and non-verbal) and movement in the classroom.

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Dversity is always a wealth! We should enhance all the different cultures and learn from it !

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I started having in my school more and more students coming from Moldavia Republic and Romanian students who were born in other countries, and, now, they are moving back home with their families. Even though they are Romanians, the fact that they were raised for some years in another culture makes a difference. So, the cultural diversity becomes important in relationship with the students. During my eTwinning projects I also realized how important the cultural tolerance is.

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I'm taking this course because I want to learn more about cultural diversity and how to find tools for creating a respectful and a caring learning environment for students with different cultural backgrounds. I think it's really important to prepare students to live with interculturality.

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Hello,
In my school, there aren't many migrants, but I'm very interested to learn more about intercultural diversity.

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Cultural diversity also exists among people from one country. Also schools have their different cultures. That includes how new people and tasks are dealt with, how you address difficulties and what general attitude you hold towards making mistakes. It also includes how you cooperate as a team of teachers. To hold these aspects together it is important to have a set of rules and a culture to develop these rules further.

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I was a foreigner student and I strongly agree that cultural diversity is part of our lives and school takes a big part in it. In particular, my school has plenty of immigrants students and sometimes, it is hard for them to get involved in class or learn a new language, change some habits, etc. That's why I enrolled the course, not only to know how to deal with this "diversity, but to take profit of that.

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I think it’s extremely  important to learn about cultural diversity in our classrooms. I believe it is essential  to develop social skills because they are form the basis for all the competences. Cultural diversity is wealth for the whole of humanity: We must build an only society in which there is respect of the different identities and  where the linguistic differences, the different traditions, religions, beliefs, habits….. are the added value.

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We live in a multicultural society. It requires special effort to understand or empathize people with different cultural background. We easily reject something that we don't understand. That's why the school must play an important role to educate young people in cultural diversity. Students from different countries have a hard time in classroom trying to fit in. They feel sometimes ashamed of their origins or are shy to express themselves.
To overcome this obstacle we have to become cultural aware of the diversity and respect each other.

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Schools are crossroad of different experience and diversity can an opportunity to explore ideas, life styles, good practice, problems, dreams. For teachers is a great challenge read and understand prejudice of our boys and girls, withount confound culture from stereotypes.
[La scuola è un crocevia di tante esperienze e la diversità può essere una opportunità per esplorare idee, stili di vita, buone pratiche, problemi e sogni. Per noi insegnanti è una grande sfida riuscire a leggere e comprendere i pregiudizi dei nostri ragazzi, senza confondere la sfera culturale dagli stereotipi.]

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  I think that every teachers must have intercultural competence . Today , in fact , in the classroom , there are teenagers who come from different countries . It's important to the contribution of the school to create a multicultural society. The cultural diversity is not a problem but it can be an opportunity for increase our skills!

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Undeniably cultural diversity is a part of our everyday life. In every country live people from different countries around the world. Consequently, in most classes at schools, there are children from different backgrounds. Taking into account the cultural diversity will enhance the teaching procedure and all students will be more tolerant toward other cultures.

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Cultural diversity should be seen by teachers not only as an opportunity to teach childen welcoming and accepting behaviours, but also as a chance to overcome our personal limits and prejudices as human beings.

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In my school there aren't many migrants. However, I feel that as a teacher I should know about intercultural diversity as much as it is possible. I want to show my pupils that the world consists of different people with their own history, which is worth respecting.

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Every day we assist to an increasing number of people coming from different countries of the world, with so many different backgrounds. I think trying to understand these cultures is the first step to build a good environment in the classroom.

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I think that a teacher must have some intercultural competences. Every pupil have a personal and different background  that must be increase by the theacher.  I think that the school is the right place to make young people aware and to educate them to diversity and respect. Cultural diversity must be considered an asset, not an obstacle.

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I teach English in a multicultural school! Some of my students are from Albania, Russia, Romania, China. I have a Chinese pupil who can't write, can't read, he can't speak Italian, English and gets angry if we try to involve him during the lesson... It's a big problem! ... Thanks to this course I hope to find out how I can help him

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I think the education to respect should come from both families and school. Nowadays almost all classrooms has students from different cultures so diversity is a common thing. That's why a lot of projects about this issue are runned in our school. Teachers are more trained every day.

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Geta Grigore, Romania           When I enrolled in this course, I was thinking only European cultural diversity. Now I understand that it is better to refer to cultural diversity and national and local. In Romania we have many migrants. They are found more in large cities. We have yet more foreigners residing and etnii.O problem is subculture Gypsies, who are often rejected by the majority. They keep their traditions, early school leavers. It is necessary for the school to be given the importance of knowing and understanding the traditional culture of each group, be prepared to address these issues properly, without hurting the dignity and integrity.

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Geta Grigore, Romania           When I enrolled in this course, I was thinking only European cultural diversity. Now I understand that it is better to refer to cultural diversity and national and local. In Romania we have many migrants. They are found more in large cities. We have yet more foreigners residing and etnii.O problem is subculture Gypsies, who are often rejected by the majority. They keep their traditions, early school leavers. It is necessary for the school to be given the importance of knowing and understanding the traditional culture of each group, be prepared to address these issues properly, without hurting the dignity and integrity.

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I think that nowadays a very important teachers target is to ensure that European Students (but not only European) realize that cultural diversity is not a threat but it's a great opportunity of enriechment for all. So teachers have to be ready for this task because it is in our schools that we build tomorrow's society.

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Looking at the posts on this padlet, it seems that the interest in cultural diversity in the classroom is a "hot" topic especially in the Mediterranean area of Europe... It's a pity we cannot exchange ideas with colleagues of other countries of Europe.
I understand that "cultural diversity" and "migrants" are intertwined problems...or should I say "resources"? As I see it,  every modern society is just the result of centuries of "migrations" all through the world. I think humanity wouldn't even exist, if the first men hadn't started to move from one place to another.
Where two different peoples meet or  even clash, there a new  culture will start.
The question is: are we ready for this? or are we afraid of it?
I do not have an answer...

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I would like to learn intercultural competences.
In my opinion, cultural diversity in our classrooms should be valued. It should be valued because the cultural diversity in our schools  is the world of tomorrow and we have to try to bring out the best in our students every moment,  regardless of the origin of the student.

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"We are different people who live in the same world" This is a reality that all (puplis, teachers, parents) should take into account and try to make our lives happier. Classroom diversity is a challenge for both puplis and teachers, so how can we make it work for our own benefit? I'm looking forward to answering that question.

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Florin Balotescu, Mihail Sadoveanu Highschool & Olga Gudynn International School, Bucharest, Romania

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Florin Balotescu, Mihail Sadoveanu Highschool & Olga Gudynn International School, Bucharest, Romania

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Hello, I am definitely for accepting, facing, dealing with and using multicultural competences. At the same time, we shouldn't regards this thing only per se, but merely as an instrument for giving a considerable weight and value to our discourse, our understanding and identity.

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Hello everyone! Sorry for the late post!

I’m a primary teacher. I teach kids their first words in English and I really enjoy my work! Actually, I love it! I’ve been a teacher for many years now but I don’t have any experience teaching migrants. Nevertheless I think our students, our children deserve the best and that’s why I enrolled this course… To learn with you!
Read you soon!

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Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
It is important as educational practitioners to understand the diverse backgrounds that our learners bring into the classroom environment and to create a learning environment that is conducive to all for effective learning to take place

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How can we face this questions when lots of migrants can't feel safety in our classrooms? What is "feeling safety" for everyone? some time ago, I boy of primary school, I think he was 8 years old, said to me that he couldn't go on coming to school because he did not feel safety in it. I asked to him why, he simply answered: " I don't know who are all these new people in my school. It does not seems my school, it seems a welcome home."
Really, I couldn't say anything inmediately. I had to take a breath and then I ask to other children if they felt in the same way. Almost did not have the same opinion, but there was a number of students of that class, that think so.  Their opinions were not  100%  theirs, they had listened comments at home and at school. they listened to other people saying things like that. So, in that moment I think that they had to listened other opinions, and I asked to foreing students,, who where since 3 or 4 months with us, which was their opinions. They also thought that  they did not feel safety all time at school, because they either did not know anyone.
At the end, everyone realised that the difference was an opinion, and that  they could change that scond the place from where they were speaking .
Children showed to me that they could solve this difference of opinion talking, and finding out that often the problem is the same for everyone, and all together can find the solution for everyone.

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I think it's crucial to address cultural diversity in the classroom because pupils have the opportunity to confront directly with their peers who can maybe find "different" at the very beginning, so they can build a solid positive idea of diversity as a tool for growing together. In my opinion, we should analyze another aspect of the implications of cultural diversity in today's society: on the other way round, instead of seeing it as a "weapon" of possible misunderstandings, it can be presented as the best tool to maintain different points of view and traditions, in a world where we are progressively starting to live all of us in the same way. (forced by consumerism to buy the same model of cell phone, watching the same tv shows, and sharing the same ideas)

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Despoina , Greece Human society is a beautiful puzzle!

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Despoina , Greece Human society is a beautiful puzzle!

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Every human being in our lives is a piece of a puzzle...Each one of us has  beautiful features, you know these "colours" and these "edges" that empower, widen and enrich worldwide puzzle.I believe that lifelong education and learning route has  to make us see the other puzzle pieces as parts of ourselves. As a teacher i am trying to use  human variety as a creative learning and socializing tool.After all,we need a safe living,learning,working etc puzzle!

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When I enter in a classroom I see kids from different countries. I know that everyone have a great cultural background, but often it doesn't come out. I would like that this background become a wealth to grow up the whole group. Because every group is more than the sum of the particolar person that compose it. Therefore I believe that a multicultural classroom is a place where the knowledge could be build all together, sharing the different points of view and experiences with respect.

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nowdays cultural diversity is our reality, especially at school. among children and guys it's easier to create inclusion...students easily realize that all children are the same..with the same feelings, needs, fears and dreams. they listen to the same music and like the same footballers....teachers must help them to increase their multicultural perspective and develop in one's students curiosity for the different culture that can be richness.