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Grusca Dumitru          Travelling around the world.

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Grusca Dumitru          Travelling around the world.

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Dear Students describe different types of transport and speak about the advantages and disadvantages some of them.

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Very interesting activity for my class and me

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RSS - Maggio 2014 - incontro tra classi per mostrare i "prodotti" dei progetti eTwinning - Liceo Statale Niccolò Machiavelli

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Il 14 maggio la classe IV H mostra alla classe I H il lavoro curricolare di letteratura inglese su Oscar Wilde preparato per il progetto (...)

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Interesting course. I teach primary education, so it is easy for me to develop projects about multicultural diversity.

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The eTwinning is a very interesting activity and I think my students would love it.

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Turkey
perfect cours

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In the class with migrants I have not applied yet Alicia's and Erika's ideas.. i will do it soon!
But I did is I used photostory3 and I asked them to express their feeling for their home country/village with 3-5 photos, a music of their preference and words in their language translate in english as well...
The results were really unexpected...
Students from Syria described with photos of PAST and PRESENT and students from Iraq did not want to remember...

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Iuliana,Romania Multimedia resources are useful for all the activities we have to knew how to put the resources in ourwork and how to involve our students.

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Iuliana,Romania Multimedia resources are useful for all the activities we have to knew how to put the resources in ourwork and how to involve our students.

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Wonderful course.

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sabrina Italy
a very interesting video... I generally use LIM to involve my students

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during my lesson both foreign languages and antropological subjects I try to mix classical lesson to real life so everybody can say their experience

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I sometimes use videos about different countries' cultures and facts. This can be a way to develop knowledge of other backgrounds and the first step to the acceptance of different beliefs and ways of living in other countries.

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Reflecting on how I utilise the knowledge gained on completion of the 1st module of this course and learning about the ways of developing students' intercultural competence, I'd like to say that I've already started applying some of the techniques. For instance, when working on superlative forms of the adjectives last week, I asked my students to use the skill to compose several sentences to tell about their native countries. They came up with really great sentences about the largest cities, the longest rivers, the most famous singers, the most popular sports, etc. I teach a very diverse group of students, so it was really interesting for all of us to find out all sorts of things about a range of different countries. The thing that I liked most of all was my students' engagement and willingness to take part in the activity. It's a shame I didn't think of encouraging them to write the sentences down in order to create a collaborative display.

As for a longer project, I like the idea of establishing a ritual of sharing and reflecting upon traditions in different cultures. I'm considering starting each session with something like "what this day/week means to people from my background" where the students will have 10-15 minutes to tell the class if there have been any meaningful date for their families / countries / religious community, etc.

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A basic principle in both Erika's and Alicia's presentations is experiential learning! In the subjects I teach (civics, law) practicality is an asset and I always try to connect theory to real life. Different laws for example in different countries can hugely contribute in intercultural understanding!

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I often try to start from the prior knowledge and the stories of my students than its country of origin to build with them an interactive lesson. Use their experiences and observations as a great resource for the classroom and to feed their curiosity. I believe that the most important thing that you should learn in school is to meet and talk civilly. To do this very often I suggest role playing or coperative learning.

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Little kids love role playing in my courses.There's an extremely large range of activities to use.Let's put an example..."Be your parent".In this activity children asked to find info(place, clothes,food) for their parents 'past life in their country. Then,children have to act like their parents  in class. at the end of presentations we discuss about similarities or differencies.
Concerning Alicia's and Erica's tips, i totally agree with all of them and i would like to use google earth and scratchbook as a part of students' learning diary!Thank u!

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I also use the stories of each of my students than its country of origin as a great resource for the classroom. All so we open our points of view and killing the walls of mistrust.

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My task based learning is pften linked to ewinning projects.

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I think that participating in international projects contribute for developing students`intercultural competence. In this way they can learn interesting facts aboutpeople all over the world and more specificaly about their tradition. Luckily our school had a chance to participate in similar project. It name was "Music and Dance- our common language."

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Children like being understand.

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I think that there are a lot of methods that can be used to develop students' intercultural competence. In my opinion, the most useful one is represented by projects in which my students can interact with others from different countries. In this way, they are exposed to other cultures, they learn interesting things about people all over the world by discussing with them via Skype about their traditions, their food or even by visiting them. Unfortunately, I did not have the chance to participate in a similar project with students from a different country, but I had a partnership with some other schools from Romania and I noticed that my students really benefited from this in terms of personal development.

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I often use videos to let students to share their experiences.

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my students love real stories from other nationalities.

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All of the techniques mentioned are useful. Especially putting yourself in someone's shoes is the best. Students can prepare a presentation about a famous but not well-known person in history, art or science. For example scientist Stephen Hawking can be a good example for a student who discriminates the religions. Writer Sırrı Süreyya Önder, whose accent is southeastern, can be good for a student who makes jokes about southeastern accent etc. By This way the students may be more familiar with what they make jokes about or discriminate.

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I usually use onenote and sway for my learning diary.Pupils used some different tools for etwinning project :prezi,pwp,animoto,etc.

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I love the activities mentioned in the video. I usually use the LIM multimedia programs that involve more children and more solicit their interest.

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I usually use Skype for small groups of students to make short webinar and create a positive climate between them. But they can use in the classroom their mobile devices. They use cell phones to do research on the web, to carry out the on-line test, using Kahoot and a lot of APP to create storytelling (storyboard That) and trailer(iMovie).
Teaching supported by the media is very exclusive!

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I haven't done eTwinning projects or project-based learning.
I also think that they are too difficult for my
children (6-10 years).
I often work in the group of private tutoring or
method of cooperative learning. Moreover, the lessons are always accompanied by
music, stories and images.

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I usually use Prezi where students put their presentations.Last year they worked in an Erasmus + and wrote really nice short stories .http://mazaralleida.blogspot.it/
I put the link to share our work. It was very interesting working in this project about the common influence between European countries, and especially with Spain and Sicily.

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I often use videos to let pupils see how thing look like in other countries. In that way I hope that they can imagine how life is outside of their own country.

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My students realized a book of stories, they cooperate in couples so that are the tutor and tutee of each other. The stories incorporated their culture and experiences and the process gave them the opportunity to know each other similarieties and appreciate each other differences.

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I feel like giving students room to talk and teach about themselves gives for really interesting and thoughtful ways of capturing the attention of the group.

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I usually find multimedia or project based methods very useful. Sometimes more traditional pedagogies can help such as pictures, photos.

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Recently I found very interesting the following video which shows that we are all foreigners !!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyaEQEmt5ls

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Multimedia resources are useful for all the activities we have to knew how to put the resources in ourwork and how to involve our students.

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I am a math teacher and my students are 10 to 12 years. I have developed some activities in class that constiotuem examples of activities to Develop students' intercultural competence.
It is part of the mathematics curriculum the topic proportions and curriculum of natural sciences the topic food. So I worked with the science teacher and students collected various recipes of dishes typical of the countries of origin. Then they had in mathematics, to indicate the quantities of the ingredients for 50 people (students and parents). Finally we made a small snack, where students presented their dishes and the stories of these dishes.
They made powerpoint presentations that continuously rolled in a projector to the school to see.
The students researched, involving families and released their work. It was very interesting. It is a pity that has been done only with a class at school.

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I really liked the activities mentioned in the video. I have also incorporated famous people from different cultures. I also use presentations of schools of other countries. This is always a topic my pupils are interested in. I also integrate cooking from different cultures and they enjoy it.

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We teachers could develop our students' intercultural competense by:

Using innovative pedagogies like project-based or problem-based learning, personalising learning of students, making learning relevant by involving the community, playing games, watching and commenting videos, questionnaire, quiz, posters, brochures, role-playing, learning vocabulary in several languages, collaborative work, Skype-ing with students from all around the world, research on lives of their anchestors, bringing grand parents to tell their stories about their immigration, searching personalities or heroes of the world that worked for peace and opposed racism, taking part in eTwinning and Erasmus programs  to show the students that there is a whole world outside the school easily approached, internet diary and blog with pictures of their travel from their country to Europe, constructing their own knowledge with digital games testing each other, playing roles in theater and working as a team, playing sports in small groups, educational tours, food-fol festivals among students from different cultural origin, activities to highlight culture, use of linguistic mediators in the class.

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Multimedia resources are useful to support interaction and presentation. The teacher should propose typical topics related to the age of students to involve them .

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For smaller children in kindergarten I find that storytelling is a great way to transmit information and direct their behavior.

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multimedia resources are useful to support interaction. Moreover, the teacher should propose typical topics related to the age of students to involve them .

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In my experience pupils get always involved in projects that allow them to express their own feelings, especially those deep ones referring to their tradition. I mean, as well as they love to share their own strenght points, they feel particularly strong when called to talk about their interests and feelings which are typical of their culture. This is also why I always try to let them feel the proudness of their origins, that is always worth to share with other people so the group in the classroom lives the beautyness of his own identity. When I happened to experience the multicultural diversity in my classroom I took advantage of this by let them reflect about it in a collective approach. I suggested to project a blog where to share their new ideas and choose at the end the best idea to work at together as a classroom project. As a result they could produce poster, paper works and other kind of electronic works about the subjects they had chosen, feeling the proudness of their origins.

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I believe that creating a blog on their English class, free time activities etc could be a starting point. In order to help my students I try to use as many multimedia presentations using powtoon, prezi.

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In my activity I use a lot of stories, therapeutic stories and social-emotional stories to engage children and motivate them to be more tolerant and accepting of others.

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In my school we project exchanges with school partners all over the world, which is a very challenging experience both for students as a class and for their families as hosts.

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I work often by group. trough the play I introduce the elements of the activity. they are theatre plays. I find the theatre work very useful for speak of himself without inhibitions.

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During my training period, before start teaching I attended a course about cultural cohesion at school. I experienced and learnt may interesting and involving  activities for overcoming cultural stereotypes among students. Here we have some examples
Hello in Different Languages | This is a fun, warm-up, cross-cultural activity.  The group tries to come up the word(s) for "hello" in as many different languages as possible.
The Story of My Name | Where does your name come from?  Share the story of where your name comes from and what your name means.  Helps to build intercultural respect and understanding.
Have You Ever? | Active, fun group activity to explore and celebrate the rich diversity of people's past experiences.  Works well with large groups.

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first of all I want to say that these ideas are worth to try. The e-twinning projects are very useful to make sense of the world around us. Students learn other cultures and collaborate with them in a safe platform. Besides this these kind of projects give opportunity to students to learn ict and new technologies by working group work.

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I've done some activities very similar to those presented in the video. For example, last year, in a work on personal characteristics and on biographical texts, I asked students to do research on Olympic athletes from their own countries. Students have, for example, to search information about the athletes, about sports, about the countries where they held the Olympic games. In the end, everyone had to make a presentation in class and also had to create an infographic to exhibit at school on the selected athlete. It was a good project, involving  students individually but also in collaborative work, when using some apps and that had an impact on the school, since the work had an audience .

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The ideas presented in the video were very interesting especially the ones which require the use of technology, since I haven't incoroporated in that way in my lessons. Mostly I used role playing in order to recreate everyday communication.

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Alicia and Erika give us some very useful ideas. I usually try to engage my students by asking them to present themselves (family, habits, hobbies, country) and those who arew from other countries have the opportunity to engage with each other. I also use the project based learning approach the let students work with others and conduct their learning process and this way they have to interact with multicultural students. Of course the use of ne technologies also helps when we are working with students from diverse countries.

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We've got ots of students from foreign countries, so I invite them to introduce themselves to their collegues by using some funny Apps (such as Voki), to share their experiences, culture, traditions and so on.

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Really interesting is to use some internet devices such as Skype. Internet environment is  important. I personally used more and more time one of the projects of Erasmus +: Etwinning to discover different culture and let pupils to be curious about the "different." Dramas and roleplays  are also useful to engage learning activity.

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Partner interviews: The students interview their partners and afterwards get together in groups of 6 and everybody tells the group the answers of his/her partner.

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It is a great difference if you have only one or two "foreign" students in the class or more. Last year in one class I had students of s7 nationalities. They had to make a presentation in german language about some topic. So I proposed to present something about their country.

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Students present a tradition, a traditon food or music from a country that he/she likes. Then try to say a few words in an other language.

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A very useful project used in my school in order to value cultural diversity could be theatre, a project developed throughout the year involving all pupils.
Our school also organizes some useful laboratories to develop a positive relationship between students: cooking, guitar, cheerleading, ...

In my activity, although I have had migrants only since last year, I regularly plan group works (with different roles inside the group) and pair work; I believe cooperation to reach the same purpose can boost also social competences.

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I find interesting proposals for Alice and Erika. I make my lessons more interesting, often dramatize the works of great authors with shows at year end, or I analyze and I sing the lyrics of famous singers. I also use, as a virtual classroom the Edmodo platform.

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There are a lot of nice activities that i propose to all my students, for example singing together song of their favorite singers. It's a really fun and educational activity!

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I believe that the ideas of the Erika and Alicia are great ideas. I emphasize group work, playful and expressive activities, problem solving and the use of new technologies for the rapprochement of cultures.

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Just today we celebrate at school the European Language Day. My class met other three classes of the school in a common space where children sang the song "Hello to all the children of the world" and learned from their school friends coming from other countries some new words in their languages. It was a significant experience: the foreign students felt themself motivated and really proud to speak in their mother language and to have something to teach to their friends and to their teachers! The italian children were really interested and amazed to listen to their friends speaking unashamed their languages.

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Project-based and problem-based learning, drama and dance, activities involving communities... I totally agree and I'll try to use these suggestions.

I'd like to mention story-telling, cooking, surveys, roleplays, music as well.

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The eTwinning is a very interesting activity and I think my students would love it. Unfortunately, there haven't been any eTwinning projects since now in our school but it's never too late.

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Indeed, I have heard interesting ideas for working with children who have different cultural traditions and language. Personally, I always want the kids to know each other, to try to find interesting things in the life and traditions of each ethnic group.
International projects, even etvuinning projects are a great opportunity to cover more aspects of cultural diversity

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Our colleagues' projects are really interesting and motivating for students. I teach english at high school: an intercultural project may consist in students who interview their granparents and relatives in native language, and simultaneously translate in English what they say.

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Being a teacher of a foreign language (English), I think the ideas proposed by Alicia and Erika can be a very good hint to start new projects in my classroom. Learning a language is a scenario where there is a huge amount of activities you can develop to improve awareness about cultural diversity, starting from the words related to the specific traditions of a country: food, drinks, famous people, games, cities and famous landscapes, celebrations... everything can be put as a game or a group activity, where everyone should investigate and discover about his/her classmate's original country. I usually do it by playing games with geographical maps and quizzes with card or online based, and it works really well because it's engaging and helps every student learn quickly about the lifestyle of their school friends.

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Group activities and circle communication are education actions that create a sense of learning comunity. In my lessons I use dialogues in circle , where someone could say own opinion.
Often I read tales about different countries and all togheter we reflect about the similar aspects or the differences. Other materials that I use are songs, poems, objects, pictures, videos.

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Alicia and Erika's ideas to develop students' intercultural competence are great. I appreciate them because they are practical examples that make students think, talk and discuss about the languages they speak and  their own identity.
I think I'll be able to implement them in my classroom (students aged 14-18): it shouldn't be that difficult because I'm a foreign language teacher so, even though some of them may seem too easy as related to the curriculum, they won't be for my first/second year students.

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These are all great ideas. Project work, especially in groups, and empathy development activities are very effective in my opinion. E-twinning cooperations are very important as well. As I mentioned in module 1, I use activities such as The origin map, Our biography poems, My self project, Our name stories, My homeland Project, Comparing languages in traditional songs, fairy tales, lullabies.

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Alicia and Erika's ideas and activities are very interesting for me, so I think this year, with their help, I'll do something very interesting with my students. They often work in groups and the video suggested me a project which could  improve their intercultural competences using Information Technology. They will make a research about life, culture, languages, religions of their foreign classmates, either by searching in web either interviewing their friends families; then they will apply Information Technology to develope a web site and present it to the classroom.
Yeah, I think it's will be a great job! Thanks Alicia, thanks Erika!

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I find Alicia and Erika's activities and ideas interesting and useful: students take an active part in the learning process and if they
do experience of the diversity, learning benefits from it.
I generally use material describing culture and I will use these suggestions in the future

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I have to say that the activities and the ideas Alicia and Erika have proposed are quite interesting and absolutely worth trying. This year I hope to sign my students in for an e-twinning project with students from Eastern Europe using its platform, as I am confident it can be a great chance for them to know each other and to learn about different cultures.

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Great input and ideas that can be applied. In my classes I have used articles with people from different countries, not only the western countries. I have also used material describing traditions and habits very different from our own way of life (quizz
es,  songs, poems).

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All the activities mentioned by Alicia and Erika sound fun and interesting. There are some common elements which underlie all of them: high level of active engagement on pupils' part, fun activities rooted in kids' interests, opening up of the classroom to other classes also from other countries. I always try to work on these elements in my projects with kids: e.g. we decide at the beginning of the project who else  we will involve: parents, grandparents, another class from our school, other teachers,  other classes from other schools through eTwinning, experts). An example can be found at this link http://www.ismachiavelli.eu/pags/spip.php?article991

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I find Alicia and Erika’s ideas interesting and doable in an etwinning project or in class. As I usually work with older students, I tend to focus on curricula stuff and serious issues, for example, my last project was to make them aware about the news, about current events, namely the refugee crisis. A planned PBL for my classroom is on “How can our school aquaponics greenhouse be sustainable?” involving a variety of subjects such as Geography, Sciences, Physics/Chemistry and obviously English as the communication language.

Alicia mentioned heroes for sts to research and learn about and I immediately recalled an activity that I believe deeply impacted my sts / class. I used a clip from the movie “The boy in Striped Pyjamas” to introduce the topic of the WW2, Jews, Holocaust, tolerance, respect… and one of my students wrote a text on Aristides de Sousa Mendes (to be honored soon as a national hero by our President) published at http://myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=A_Sousa_Mendes_3ma_PT_2015 .

Still with the same class, about two years ago, I had a Muslim student for the very first time and that summer was his first time to fast in Ramadan just like any other adult Muslim. The situation was shared by the student himself in our class blog, commented by their classmates and even by fellow Muslims from different countries. It was an amazing opportunity to develop students’ intercultural competence! If curious, please check http://shiningasoure.blogspot.pt/2014/07/came-most-difficult-moment-of-muslims.html and http://shiningasoure.blogspot.pt/2014/07/ramadan-explained-simply.html ; in case you’re a Muslim, too, please add your comment(s). Many thanks!

Now let me leave you with an excerpt from a favourite poem:
People embrace religion

but still they fuss and fight

many believe in one God

so why on earth don’t they unite

there are many different faiths

we have lots of beliefs

so let’s celebr8 our differences

instead of crying out in grief.

And the repeated lines are...

WE SHOULD CELEBR8

NOT DISCRIMIN8

LEARN TO APPRECIATE

DON’T PLAYER HATE

BECAUSE THERE’S ROOM FOR YOU

AND THERE’S SPACE FOR ME

LIVING IN THIS WORLD OF DIVERSITY

LET’S CELEBR8 DIVERSITY .

(Celebr8, by LEVI TAFARI)

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I'm thinking about using these activities during the programs where we show kids how is it like to be disabled, using a wheelchair, so on. Especially in the classes where my students are learning at. I'm still thinking about possible adaptions, but one exciting idea I had is to search for famous disabled people, like Paralympic champions, actors, singers. There are a lot and could give them so much motivation!

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I only create some events and situations in class to solve some problems and to know more about each other. But i never heard about this Skype activities or sending letters, so I would really like to practise this in class. Thanks a lot for the examples.

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I have designed and implemented several eTwinning projects. In one eTwinning project, we have visited our partners’ town and school in Germany and our partners visited our town and school. In my opinion these projects help students to develop intercultural competence.

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I take care of all projects explained and discussed for the future but in this moment I have very few pupils from different cultures and it's very difficult to apply them in my classrooms

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eTwining is a great tool to raise awareness on cultural differences and meet peers from different countries. As we for last 3 years have projects on citizenship, cultural diversity is included in each of them.

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Last year i participated in an  eTwinning project called "Christmas in Europe" .My students and i learned  to collaborate and share with other students cards ,music and costumes .We created  an electronic book with recipes from Europe .It was a wonderfull experience.I believe that eTwinning is the most involving and callaborating opportunity to develop students intercultural competence. As a preschool teacher i often use role-playing activities and project based learning.

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I think that eTwinning is a really interesting and involving opportunity to rise students partecipation and interest about school. They also work togheter, help eachother and know better their classmate, giving value to their own differences and qualities. Working togeter is the key to learn how to deal with different opinions, values, habits and customs.

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I agree that PBL based learning is very actual and useful. It's very effective for engaging all students. For now I think to start new project in eTwinning...

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I' m going to start a etwinning project with other countries. Last year one of my colleguae started the project and it was a good experience. This year we are going to plan an activity where pupils can change Christmas cards, share videos, or writing on a blog. Pupils can feel more involved and motivated when they know that what they are learning is useful and engaging.

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I find the ideas proposed  interesting. In my classes I repeatedly experienced role-playing activities and discussions aimed at broadening the knowledge of others, and the feelings of others positions

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I absolutely agree that project based learning is very essential. I teach at a European Middle School in Vienna and we have got a subject called European Studies. It is a mixture of History, Biology and Geography - taught in English.

In year 1, the main project is about the kids' heritage.
- We find out on a map where our heritage comes from
- the kids get a prompt about their research goals
- they do research on their heritage (books, Internet, interviewing parents, ...)
- they choose what they would like to present
- they write their presentation texts in English with help of their teacher and our native speaker teacher
- they work on their own or in groups
- They learn rules how to design a poster and create them
- They learn how to present in front of a crowd
- They organize a buffet with the help of their parents
- They design invitations
- They prepare some opening or closing acts (dancing, greeting, etc.)
- they have a buddy who gives them signals during the presentation (if they talk to quietly, too quickly, etc.) and who help to put up the posters.
- they learn how to give feedback in a motivating and supporting way
- they learn how to react when they are too nervous to speak or say wrong things

I LOVE this project and I think it is incredible WHAT the 10-year-olds learn from all this.

Each year we have one of these big projects for every grade and I can only repeat that I am a big fan of interdisciplinary learning.

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I believe that project-based activities are quite effective in engaging all the students giving them the opportunity to present their talents while learning.

In our English book there is a unit dedicated to customs and traditions. After raising them the question why it is important to keep our customs and traditions alive, I was quite surprised to hear some interesting answers. They mentioned that traditions are part of our identity and culture that unite people of the same group. Then I asked them to think of a specific festivity and present examples of customs that they keep to celebrate it. I had students from different cultural background (South Greece, Central Greece, Albania, England, Germany, Ireland, Holland) so the customs mentioned were various. In some cases the students couldn’t present them in English and decided to dramatize them in the classroom. It was really amazing! Following, there was a text about Halloween. Some of the students weren’t familiar with this festivity so they had the chance to learn about it. Then I asked them to find a similar to their culture activity and compare it with Halloween (e.g. costumes, parties, food, and historical background). In groups they made a table comparing Halloween, the Greek Carnival and the Albanian Carnival. In the end, the English students helped to carve a Halloween pumpkin in the classroom, other students made a video of “how to make a Halloween pumpkin” using Movie Maker and some other baked  traditional English muffins made from the pumpkin which we tasted in a later lesson. So, I believe it was a project that helped students learn and experience interculturalism in the classroom.

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Very interesting ideas and starting points proposed by Alicia and Erica! Yes, I agree with the ones who think that PBL is an engaging activity for students, even though it is not always feasible in all kind of classroom.

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So interesting activities suggested by Erica and Alicia! I have used a quite number of them in my classes. First of all I strongly believe that the role play activities help so much in order to develop empathy. In my history classes my students love creating their genealogical tree and collect stories and myths from their grandparents’ past. Each one presents his findings and all together discuss about the similarities of their different cultural backgrounds.

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I found all the ideas in the above video motivating and easily to be applied in the classroom. Recently I asked from my students to create their on blog and update everything the like that presents their culture, their identity and information from their countries. I also had to take an interview with the members of their families as to let me know better the background of my students.

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PBL for students is always very engaging and to develop cultural competences in teaching English is to share with each other for each feast day or festivity the peculiarity of each country's customs and appreciate all of them.
But I must admit that I have to explore much more technology in order to engage children to build their own knowledge....Due to lack of ICT means that isn't possible as I would like to

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Projects are fantastic if the families are willing to participate. Parents of kids that I teach are extremely busy very often working over 12 hours and being single parents so they keep away from school life. Kids are very keen to share their life story and present it to other students, they love working in a group. the best way is to put different nationalities in one group and then they have to speak English :-) which is great for EAL. It benefits them and the teacher because both,learning and teaching, take place in so diverse group.

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I believe that incorporating project based learning into a culturally diverse environment is a great way to acknowledge each student's creativity and uniqueness in the classroom while allowing them to work together and reach a common goal. For example, splitting student into groups and providing a question for them to answer or a project to complete is an excellent way for them to interact and discuss the variety of ways to approach the subject. Stimulating discussions and facilitating their interactions with others allows the students to take into consideration a variety of different points of view and constructive criticism which will be useful life skills to know in the future.

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I found  one of the Alicia’s activity very interesting. I think that involving students giving them examples of famous characters and personalities of the different parts of the world can be useful. It is possible to choose not only historical or political personalities but it could be also interesting for them to choose famous musicians or actors coming from different countries. Exploring their biography we can compare the diffent stories and  habits using a multicultural point of view. In my opinion it is very hard to use instruments like cameras, mobiles and skype. Even if teen agers uses those instruments every day I think that they will not use them to study: new technologies are seen as means of communication and not as useful instruments for researching

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My young pupils in primary school created an international puzzle. On each puzzle piece there was the presentation of a pupil. Two classes were participating, a Greek and a Czech. The title of the project was "we all fit in the puzzle" and of course it could be done with more nationalities participating.