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Ayanna n° 5 - 8D
Gabrielly Castro n°11 - 8D
Isabela de Campos n°16 - 8D

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As a teacher - as a Ufi for my students, I believe we, especially teachers, should be more careful about our manners as we are role models.

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We, adults in schools, are role models to our students - and they learn from us in a formal and informal way. So we must assume that all our actions are intentional: not only our words but particullary our actions. I try to act always with this in my mind.

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Respect-Empathy,Acceptance.
We need to accept others as arem to respect the diversity and to show empathy to others. These are not only for cultural diversity but we need these to live the life with proper way.

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Students must be malleable. To accept that we are not all the same. And as indifernet culture that we are human.

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Develop the intercultural competencies of pupils sgnifica open a debate on the issues of diversity: teach respect for other cultures, to have proximity to other cultures, accept diversity they bring elavorare for a common goal.

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Develop the intercultural competencies of pupils sgnifica open a debate on the issues of diversity: teach respect for other cultures, to have proximity to other cultures, accept diversity they bring elavorare for a common goal.

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Everyday experience leads me to say that new teachers us plays a critical role in creating a friendly atmosphere, full of respect between children and between parents in order to avoid misunderstandings or conflicts interracial. It is imperative to tolerance, whatever class family children come in terms of ethnic, religious, social, etc. In my work I was confronted with situations when they came and children from totally different: very poor families, families of different religions, and children from different business with different cultures and different ethnicities, in which case my main goal was to to persuade the children to feel or not feel the least way their origin, protecting them from the phenomenon of frustration that could have repercussions on the infant personality in formation.

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Diversity is a challenging element. We must learn to respect ourselves, others, to listen as other needs. Teachers encourage dialogue, learn a conflict in the classroom, how to communicate. It is also important to create intercultural labs so that students seek to work together and share as their ideas.

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Empathy, cooperation, collaboration and acceptance are very important.

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Empathy must be developed, it isn't only innate. Learning to be empatic it's important to develop social skills. When you put yourself in connection, respectful connection, with other person, you can see his diversity as a precious thing. I's evermore an enemy, but a friend, and what we know is no more a thing to be afraid.

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It is very important that students learn about teamwork, cooperation, acceptance.

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Very important respect of the rules. Collaborazione and open minde

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I think it's important to recognize the students the value and the merits of each one in diversity.

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I think it is very important for today's society : collaboration, communication,  creativity and critical thinking.

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It it essential for teachers to model and encourage non-judgemental approaches to discussing cultural, social, or other types of difference, facilitate discussion among students with a variety of communication styles and create opportunities for interaction among learners that allow them to learn from each other, share different perspectives, and share their experiences. It is also important to cultivate empathy, tolerance and  interaction. Students should develop cultural awareness, the ability to understand different cultural contexts and viewpoints, demonstrate and  respect for others.

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In my opinion debate is the most important area. Students should foster their ideas, but following some important rules, listening different opinions, they can learn how to communicate with people in a respectful way.

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I believe the communication is the key. By that, the students will learn things about the others, will become friends and will learn to help each other and to collaborate

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There are many differences between pupils in each classroom, for culture, religion, habit, opinion. But I think it's important to get to know others, especially through play and  physical approach. So the pupils can learn a kind of universal vocabularyof gestures, expressions moods,  and discover that they are the same in all over the world. Students can increase their skills, knowledges and competences by innovative approach for integrating digital into teaching.

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I agree also that empathy is the key word and for me this is the most challenging, to help the students to get this emotional attachment and the bonding afterwards.  You get good results, when you give them a common goal, so they will work together and know each other.
Finally, it is necessary for me, to get a contract done in the beggining to set the limits of our behaviours and the debate is a great idea to confront each other.

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Diversity acceptance, opend-mindedness and constructive dialogue are the most important areas to be addressed with students in order to develop their intercultural competences.
In the classroom it is extremely important to give students the possibility to cooperate, to debate, to resolve conflicts. I strongly believe that students need to be encouraged to critically reflect on cultural diversity by experiencing it in a constructive way in the classroom. This means, for example, working together on a certain intercultural issue (ex. food) in order to build new knowledge, exchange ideas and opinions and develop a positive attitude toward cultural diversity.

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We must increase our ability to be tolerant, sensitive and patient to increase the intercultural competence of our students. Collaboration in work, group work supports this very well. Having joint events in the family outside the school accelerates the process. There is not a single individual in education that we can give up.

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I think that in the classrooms there are most differences culture and the techers must create the multicutural classrooms where there are respect for all ideas, cultures, religions and opinions.
The techers can use images, short phrases, videos...during the lessons so the students can increase the skills, the knowledges and competences. The technologies are important inclusive methodologies.
The teachers must remember the  European competences (European Parliament 18/012/2006).

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I agree with the issues mentioned by Alicia and Erika. Support the idea that there must be a dialogue between students and potentiometers to be developed by teachers of critical thinking among students.

I believe that multiculturalism is the key to communication.

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Respect and openness can help! Why not have a change with creative activities in a new language? As we did with my students, thanks to Deutschwagen (http://www.deutschwagen.it/) from Goethe Institut (https://www.goethe.de/en/index.html)

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I'm agree with Erika and Alicia: empathy, acceptance of other people's ideas, the critical thinking, use of ICT,  playful and joyful teaching, the encouragement of dialogue between students. The diversity is useful, open the mind and offer educational challenges.

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I totally agree with them and the importance to create an open minded group of learners but I'm afraid that it isn't enough if, after school hours, they go back to a family where they hear differently.

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I believe that empathy is the key word. It is important for children to develop intercultural skills and critical thinking. And to do that teachers have to create a loving and caring environment in the classroom in the beginning of the year. They must focus on human rights and meanings like respect, equality for all human beings etc. A way to feel children accepted is to make them feel like home. We can try to learn more about their culture, their language and their family background. New technologies helps to stay in touch with students after school and to build a network.

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Respect is definitely the key. Establishing a good relationship with the students will help us, as teachers, to put across the idea of tolerance, acceptance and as many others have also said, love. For this to happen we must model the desired behaviour and show our students the way.

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I agree with Alicia when she said that the dialogue should be encouraged.
The most challenging thing for me is to encourage students and colleagues to  accept differences

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I teach groups of students from 14 to 18 years old. A sense of calm and friendly atmosphere is an essential key to motivate and encourage them. Empathy, sensitivity, patience and self-consciousness is a way to improve their different learning styles. I agree with Alicia and Erika on intercultural competences and new strategies. Research of past generations, pictures, videos and so on, are exactly that and part of my job. I like ICT. My students are  familiar with them. When they work in group, they realize games, videos easily and emotions education becomes important too. I think cooperative learning can be an effective strategy to develop intercultural competences. Last year I organized a comedy with fifty pupils to raise money for charity. It was very fun and they helped one another to succe All parents and pupils were satisfied and happy to help children in Ghana.

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I agree with Erika and Alicia about empathy. It is really important and difficult to promote collaboration and critical thinking, but it is essential if we want to have an open-minded classroom. The key of multicultural teaching is encouraging dialog but at the same time showing the need of working with other people, who don't always agree with us.

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Develop intercultural skills is not easy… certainly! I believe that all the fundamental points have been touched. Inter-culture is respect, acceptance, empathy, comparison. It is not easy to accept norms, customs, languages ​​other than their own and - not latest- differences in physical appearance.It was not always aware of the rejection you feel toward each other. Our best intentions lead us to convince the other to adapt to our way of thinking. We believe this can help and we are unable to see how much this can be destructive.The school and teachers, extracurricular structures play a key role. To provide a suitable welcome to immigrant children who come from different places you need to know the culture and the characteristics of the various countries of origin.

This facilitates understanding and helps to overcome obstacles and create an atmosphere of respect and harmony between people who share a common space.

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I agree with Alicia when she said that the dialogue should be encouraged.
The most challenging thing for me is to encourage students and colleagues to accept differences.

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I agree with Alicia and Erika. I think at the beginning it is necessary to set a certain respect, to know each student and their needs. Then encourage communication and mutual dalogue are important aspects to teach them to work together and to live with other people. To develop what the school is the perfect place.

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I agree with both.
We teachers have to develop a friendly environment where all pupils can fit in,nomatter when they come from.All of them have the sdame rights and the same needs.Thi is something that have to teach them to realise.

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I totally agrre with both of them, but thinking in more stages....why no to use PE class to develope intercultural resources? I thiks sports (through games) is a perfect stage to show, work and learn different way of behaviours. I also allows the opportunity to colaborate in a same goal and it´s a great moment to learn how to comunicate each other. On the other hand, why not to dedicate sessions to share sports and games from different countries?

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I think that it is important to talk with students and also use ICT as effective instruments to improve students’ communication skills.  A good idea, in my view, could be to create a Skype video-conferences schools-network, where the teacher and the students can share their scholar-experiences.  This activity could show  to the pupils a different ,but not so much, educational reality.

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Milena Santerini, in the context of the Skills Training for participatory citizenship,says that intercultural competence and the development of empathy is very important

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I agree with Alicia when she says that promoting dialogue and teaching how to menage conflicts is very important at school. I’d like to add to strategies she lists, the method of Circle Time. If done regularly it can be a good opportunity to improve social competences of our class.

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I totally agree with both Erika and Alicia. They have touched upon empathy, acceptance of other people's ideas, the critical four 'C's, the use of technology in order to extend the classroom, the encouragement of dialogue among students and between T and Ss. All these elements are important towards the common goal of inter-understanding!
Though diversity is useful, it is ofen challenging to cope with it as a teacher whose experience in such matters is minimum. However, it is usually the students themselves who show us the way to act proactively. Through their willingness to adjust to their brand-new reality, they make an effort to communicate - a first step toward 'interculturality'. Different mother tongues are hard to go by in the first semester and patience on the part of the teacher is essential to prevent the feeling of getting lost into translation on the part of the students! Getting to know them on a first name basis is essential and verbal encouragement when misunderstanding occurs  is also needed.

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I believe that all the key points for developing an inclusive culture in our classrooms have been touched. In particular, I believe that behind the development of inclusive multiculturalism there is dialogue. important task of the teacher is that of a dialogue between the different cultures present in a class in the first place not to be afraid, and from there you can then built everything else. Important support is given to us by technology. Indeed, we can push students to do research about other cultures and see everything that is beautiful have. All this is facilitated by the acquisition of social and civic skills that it is good to search through the cooperative learning.

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I think that both Erika and Alicia mentioned the most important aspects which should be considered to help our studentd to develop their intercultural competence.

I fully agree with Alicia that it is essential to know our students
needs and backgrounds  because it helps us to plan the activies in the classroom in more effective way.
Moreover,   all the activies should have a part where our students can compare their views on different issues in pairs or in groups.
It is essential and challenging to make our students collaborate with their classmates.
I think it is really hard to solve problems among our students, but it also important to discuss about the problems that come out creating a kind of whole class discussion.

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I believe that cultural diversity is an opportunity for both students and for teachers. Teachers must encourage the reception sensitizing pupils and at the same time know the background of foreign students to identify the most appropriate strategies for the inclusion and integration.
Cooperative learning and flipped classroom are very useful, along with a pinch of humor.

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I think that for the children and for the teacher is very interesting and important to know the diversity because we live in the multicultural world. For me the Flipped classroom and the Cooperative learning are very functional strategies to achieve a cooperative atmosphere.

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Interculrural competences:
- respect, empathy,
- 4 C: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity.
- Lessons have to change. With new tecnical opportunities of the www the classroom can be extended to the outside world.
- the need of accepting other cultures not knowing or understanding everything, just accepting diversity
- encourage dialogue in the classroom! think about other children (ex: Anne Frank)

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I regret the video is not subtitled in English, as it would be easier to follow the ideas.
The attitude of the teacher is very important in the conduct of the whole process of integration of the students.
-- I would begin with a meeting with the caregivers to get to know the new families in the community and how they would help them to become undeveloped. What parents think will help the behavior of students in school.
-- Then it would create moments of sharing. For example the foreign student can show youtube videos of your country and how to live.
--  Native students would also do the same.
-- Initially, she would create groups to accompany the student throughout her school career.
- They would make a collaborative album with descriptions and images of the different countries (calameo).

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- get to know the students and their parents
- empathy, understanding and apreciation
- communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking
- extend the classroom
- accept differences
- project based learning   and work together towards a common goal
- show students how to debate - give feedback
- resolve conflicts - rules of the class

The most challenging areas are those of conflicts because everybody is emotionally involved and it is very difficult to find balance and the right solution for everybody

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The main aim for a teacher should be teach students to respect different cultures, ways of thinking and behaviours. The starting point is to consider as enrichment the presence of students who come from other parts of the world, developing the curiosity about the discovering of different ways of living, developing the attitude to collaborate and communicate.

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Lucia, Italy       "We have our own ideas but we have also to accept others ideas": so simple, so difficoult, surely not only for my pupils!

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Lucia, Italy       "We have our own ideas but we have also to accept others ideas": so simple, so difficoult, surely not only for my pupils!

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One of the practices I like most in my classes is the debates; a certain theme is studied from different points of view, expressed by all students. Then the class is divided in two or three groups, each one must sustain, motivate and explain just one idea, indipendently from what is your personal belief. After the debate quite everyone admite to have shared (and understood!) opinions that at first weren't considered

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i agree with the tools showed by Alicia, specially i believe in the dialog, because we can discover what they think about migration and what know. also important is to give informations about history migrations in the world and explain many important reasons behind this movements. finally the respect is the basic key , and work with differents kind of activities for improve it is very important.

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As Alicia and Erika mention, it is very important to help our students develop their communication skills, to teach them to accept differences, to respect other cultures and to think about others. The latter, teaching them empathy, I find it the most challenging as our society has become very competitive. We also have to find ways to encourage their curiosity and to teach them to be open-minded.

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It's very important to teach how to live with other people. So a nice idea is to make them work together, forwarding the dialogue, the respect and the curiosity for the diversity. The flipped classroom” and “cooperative learning” are two winning strategies to create a friendly environment in my classrooms.

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I think that students, especially teenagers, should be encouraged to develop empathy, understanding and tolerance. It is important to help our students to better know themselves in order to get  better acquainted with the common characteristics that they have with people originating from different backgrounds. The school has an important part to play especially in promoting humanitarian and democratic values.

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I think it is important to encourage students to develop awareness about diversity like enrichment. Teachers have to provide information on how to meet the needs of all students in an inclusive environment. Dialogue and cooperative learning help to share experiences and roles. Alicia talks about promoting dialogue and debate. In my opinion “flipped classroom” and “cooperative learning” are useful strategies to create a friendly environment in our classroom. The fondamental element is the empathy. Students learn to respect each other and to better the socialization process.

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I think it's very important to involve students into common activities such as dialogues, projects, exchanging some information in debates and so on.

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We live in an global society. It is important to learn to understand each other by accepting diversity. I think that a good dialog can resolve any situation.

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1.4 Developing intercultural competences
I agree with Alicia when she said that the dialogue should be encouraged. The most challenging thing for me is to encourage students and colleagues to accept differences.

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For me as a teacher, i think it is very important to get to know each student's background. I would organize fairs where students would present their background, not only students from different countries and cultures, but also from different regions inside the country. That way it would be obvious that we all have similarities but also special attributes

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Communication is the key, indeed: accepting the differences, listening to each other and debating together, showing curiosity and respect for all the cultures, languages and traditions, planning an intercultural project (on eTwinning for instance) and working on it..... thanks for the food for thoughts!

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Given the situation of global economy, many children assume that theire relatives lost their jobs to refugees. What is more, children who live in unsafe regions that happen to be multicultural, tend to blame diversity and foreigners  for that lack of safety and believe that most foreigners are criminals. In this case the challenge is to make children realise that crime isn't a national characteristic but a thing that is caused by the way of someone's living and growing up.

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I think that the main cognitive challenge concerns the formulation of a constructive vision of intercultural relations, through processes that stimulate curiosity and facilitate structured contact with other culture. We must start from the acceptance of the other and from the consideration that multiculturalism is a wealth of values, of study, of crescit.
The dialogue is very important to have a constructive exchange between pupils and the teacher, a spontaneous dialogue dictated primarily by curiosity.
Laboratory activities and circle time help to develop both intercultural competence and acceptance.

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Communication is the key. But we must always give more space for creativity and critical thinking. The exchange of experiences and opinions also allows you to deepen and build a collaborative process

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First thing teachers need to do in the very first begging of the year, as Ms Alicia mentioned, is to create the culture they want to have in the class. More specifically, they need to create a friendly and respectful environment, in which acceptance and good gestures are taking priority. What we need to focus on is that acceptance and cordiality should be cultivated not only between the students, but also between the teacher and the students and between the teacher and the parents. Also among the parents themselves. In addition, through the whole process of cultural competence, the teachers should highlight everytime that the similarities finally between the students are surpassing the differences. For example, they are all students of the same class, they are all at the same age, most of them have many things in common, most of them have the same interests and hobbies, etc. The teachers should always point out the common points of the students and reduce the differences between them that may exist.
Furthermore, I was surprised when Ms Alicia was talking about modern teaching techniques and especially about debate. Me myself I have been taught this technique  in my university from my professor and I have also tried it with my classmates in real. The benefits of such technique are truly amazing! The students get used to the dialogue and also they learn how to argue in the frame of a friendly and respectful environment. They also learn how to accept others opinions and they learn how to respect the rules. Another technique that I can suggest is to give the students a scenario that represents a real situation. This scenario talks about a real problem that happens in the outside world. The teacher after gives roles to the students to act. Each of them has a specific role that they need to carry through with it. After, they all trying to find a solution to the problem, each one from his point of view and based on his role. The teacher represents the rules to the students at the beginning of the activitiy. This activity really helps the students to understand the word "empathy" and to try it within a realistic backround.

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I will icrease my efforts to teach students how to debate, encouraging the dialogue, and also how to resolve conflicts in the classroom, learning how to communicate. It’s also important to create intercultural laboratories, because students have to work together towards a common goal
I think that involving foreign kids' parents  is important. School can be a way even to integrate not only kids but also adults. So teachers can organize laboratories to show and shared foreign traditions or costumes, in this way all students can acquire intercultural competences.

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In particular I agree with Alicia when he says that the dialogue should be encouraged. The teacher has to manage any conflicts. I believe every teacher should take care of their training on the management of conflicts.

Finally I thank Muriel (Belgium) for interesting video of Musallam that she has posted. The curiosity is a keywords not only for “to spark Learning” but for intercultural competence.

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I live in a culturally homogeneous society, so are the students I teach.The large part of students' kwnoledge about the world is based on mass and social media.
In my situation, stereotypes and xenophobic attitude  are very difficullt to overcome.  Meeting these challenges in the classroom often causes bad emotion. It takes a long time to persuade the students to look for sheer facts, eg individual stories or statistic data.

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I agree that communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking is very important for today's society. If students have the opportunity to work together, to cooperate then exchanged opinions and develop critical thinking.

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It's so important to teach our students a basic life skill: how to live with other people. So a nice idea is to make them work together through a collaborative work, encourage dialogue - even if we are not comfortable with the topic- learn our students how to debate and teach them empathy

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Diversity is a richness.We must learn to respect themselves,the other ones, listen to the other needs. Teachers should encourage the dialogue, learn how to resolve conflicts in the classroom, how to communicate.It's also important to create intercultural laboratories so that students can work together and share their ideas.

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Diversity is a richness.We must learn to respect themselves,the other ones, listen to the other needs. Teachers should encourage the dialogue, learn how to resolve conflicts in the classroom, how to communicate.It's also important to create intercultural laboratories so that students can work together and share their ideas.

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I think that is important to be respectful with people from other  cultures. It's strategic to create a positive environment in the classroom so that everyone can feel as special as different from the other one.

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Βασιλική Κρικώνη, Greece

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Βασιλική Κρικώνη, Greece

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Both Alicia and Erika were very informative and i am very gratefull  for sharing with us their valuable experience. I believe that they have covered the most important areas.
In my opinion, its a challenge for every teacher to create an appropriate environment in the classroom, where all the students are going to feel special and accepted no matter their differences.
Communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking are the valuable keys that we can use.
Empathy!!! : the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another. Managing to instill empathy to my students is one of the most important aims that i have set

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I agree with Alicia when she says that promoting dialogue and teaching how to menage conflicts is very important at school. I’d like to add to strategies she lists, the method of Circle Time. If done regularly it can be a good opportunity to improve social competences of our class.

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I think that what Alicia and Erika say is very important.First of all we are all different in the look , languages , personality, way of talking,relating with others , expressing our emotions etc. also in the same cultures. Understanding these differences in other cultures and accepting them is even more difficult.I think that in primary school we can do a lot to develop intercultural competences in our pupils. We must focus on empathy among children and teachers, giving our students to chance to work together, more often sharing opinions, debating and developing a critical mind. We should encourage our students to share their cultures , languages,traditions in the class with cross curricular activities, stimulating curiosity to undertand the value of all differences.It's a hard work but we can have results if we consider children and their diversities as the focus of our work.

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I think it is important to teach our students to be respectful of people with other cultures. They are often frightened by what they do not know and don't accept differences. so it is important to debate with them and to encourage discussion.Our pupils must be more aware of the phenomenon of immigration to lead them towards an intercultural approach. I agree with the idea that we don't ha ve to understand every single thing of other culture but just to accept them . saying that we have to teach our pupils how to cooperate, to accept differences focusing not only on the cultural differences but also on cultural similarities. I often use Etwinning to try to develop a sense of integration , cooperation and acceptance in order to help them to become, a day, the best E uropean citizens

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I really loved the idea that we dont have to understand every single thing in the other cultures but to accept the ideas of the others. Empathy is somethinh I definetely try to teach my students, mostly through projects , think pair share sessions and learning stations. This means that actually for me it is more about feeling not so much about just knowledge. And playing in the classroom can be used to promote all this empathy.

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DANIELA, ROMANIA

In my opinion the respect and understanding of culture, empathy, encouraging students to collaboration, communication, accepting differences are important targets for the development of cultural competencies.

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I agree that teachers must teach respect for other cultures, encourage to accept differences and above all teach empaty among students. I usually try to create situations in my classes so that my students have a common goal and must collaborate to reach it. I usually use PBL, and I think it's very important to develop in the students all the competences they must have in the society of the 21. century. I find technology very useful in order to create a relationship between the classes and the real world. Therefore, I find very useful to develop the intercultural competence eTwinning projects, because students have the opportunity to know other culture trough the collaboration with students of other european countries.

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Both Alicia and Erica have a lot of experience on the topic of intercultural competence. In my opinion, the most important and challenging thing they address is the necessity of understanding and accepting differences between each other, since the vast majority of us has concrete beliefs and they are not willing to understand the others' way of living.

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It is important that students have opportunities to learn from one another’s varied experiences and perspectives. To create this learning environment, teachers need to skillfully draw on student experiences to enrich their studies.

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Teaching empathy, respect and appreciation for other cultures is an interesting challenge. It is not so obvious because people often don't accept differences.
I agree with Alicia when she says that it is important to debate with pupils and to encourage discussions.

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The first thing Alicia talks about in the video is the necessity to get to know one's students individually in order to create the atmosphere we want to have in the classroom. This reminded me of this teacher in the United States who greeted each students in an individual way before they entered the class.
Alicia also emphasises that project learning enhances empathy in a class which is completely true in my opinion as students learn to respect each other and get to know each other while collaborating to achieve a common goal.
Something which was also mentioned at the beginning of the video but not really developed is the importance of raising students' curiosity. Watch the video below to know more about this wonderful tool.

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I think that both speakers have a lot of experience on working in a multicultural environment.I will have to learn a lot.

The most challenging thing for me is to encourage students and colleagues to accept differences. It's important to accept differences and to try convincing people around me (teacher, family ecc).

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Children are more open to when things and tend to welcome diversity with more enthusiasm. Adults are usually bounded by their beliefs, prejudices and personal experiences. In this context, even if we do not agree or we do not share the same ideals, we can listen to each other and respect each other.

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İn this issue we can do many things. First of all, we have to know all people  equal. For this reason we must do in equality. We must respect people. We should learn try to understanding others. We can't humiliate others. We can't otherize people. We should search students culture. We must be curious about learning students culture. We should try to teach students respectful behaviours.

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I think that everything the speakers said was interesting and worth remembering. The most challenging area to realize in class is perhaps the teaching of empathy, especially when it comes to teeangers who want to feel unique and "different" and tend to forget ther people's needs or to take all they have for granted.
Another problem area is the parent-teacher relationship, as not all of our students' parents are always willing to cooperate in their children's intercultural education. This has been made particularly difficult since certain media have started putting particular emphasis on the "danger" represented by foreigners, fuelling resentment and suspicion on both sides.

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I think that both speakers have a lot of experience on working in a multicultural environment so they covered all areas of the topic. The most challenging thing for me is to encourage students and colleagues to accept differences. And I'm asking myself: how can I work on me accepting differences and then trying convincing people around me. This is the BIGGEST challenge.

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I am of that, the students should be aware of the phenomenon of immigration to grow in them an intercultural approach. In this way they can better socialization between them. This definitely can be an opportunity to highlight the differences, promote integration.

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1.4 Developing intercultural competences of your students
I agree with Alicia and Erika but I think also as a crucial component the parental agent, because  I had an experience with a girl from Sudan. My collegues and I we tried to support her incorporation in the class team but her mother din't help in this direction, so we decide to call the parents in a meeting at school. We soon understood that their culture was very different from ours about the education of a girl. The father was more open minded person and support our educational plan. In fact he was invited to visit the class and give informations about their life in Sudan. The whole think proved to be very interesting for all the class and the girl seemed to be very proud about the presence of her father.

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I think that developing intercultural competence is a real challenge for teachers nowadays. Students are not always open to others, especially if they are from different countries and cultures. They get into many conflicts and they are not always willing to respect cultural diversity and to accept other ways of thinking. I do agree with Alicia and Erika's opinions, of course. I think I need to learn effective strategies to deal with conflicts in the classroom and to develop empathy and respect among students.

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In my opinion, students should be aware of one of fenomend of our day that immigration to mature in them an intercultural approach and relationship. In this way they can better socialization between them. This definitely can be an opportunity to highlight the differences, promote integration, inter-religious and intercultural dialogue, to create a better social cohesion both in the classroom but also in the external social life, to educate students to become comfortable citizens .

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there should be much more time to share everybody stories and believes. it is important to teach that all has the same value for each other and respect for all personal boundaries.

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I agree with Alice and Erika. In my opinion cooperative learning, sharing moments during the lesioni and outside of school, tollerance, dialogare improove. Competence culture is a working in progress, Long life learning. Multiculture is opportunity for increase society.