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This webmix has been created for the Cultural Diversity Course of the Teacher Academy, in the School Education Gateway platform

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Cultural Diversity Course Learning Diaries and Learning Designs (Responses)

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school as a common space of interaction shared by teachers, students, parents

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Module 2: Recognising cultural diversity for learning in everyday practice

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Module 2: Recognising cultural diversity for learning in everyday practice

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1. Develop methods how you can work with students who do not speak the language of instruction very well

2. Identify ways how to build a sense of belonging and identity in your class and your school

3. Reflect on how you develop empathy and open-mindedness

4. Prepare a lesson plan that incorporates activities, ideas, etc. of what you have learned on this course

5. Reflect about what makes a good lesson that develops intercultural competence of students by reviewing the work of three other course participants

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1. model of co-existence (Anglo-saxon vision of dealing with cultural diversity) = multicultural system (universal truth does not exist)
2. model of integration = based around individuals = generates assimilation (universal truth exists)
3. humanistic participative model = universal differentialism

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The 'Multi‐country Partnership to Enhance the Education of Refugee and Asylum‐seeking Youth in Europe ‐ PERAE' was initiated by the SIRIUS Network - Policy Network on Migrant Education in 2016 with the support of the Mercator Foundation. The initiative builds up on the SIRIUS 'Agenda on Migrant Education' (SIRIUS, 2014) and the Statement on Urgent Response for the Education of Refugees [...]

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TABLE SELF-REFLECTION INTERCULTURALLY COMPETENT TEACHER 

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TABLE SELF-REFLECTION INTERCULTURALLY COMPETENT TEACHER 

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Open and reflective to accommodate and value the diversity

You are a reflective practitioner who is open to trying out new things to ensure the diversity of your students is valued and recognized in your teaching approaches. You make the learning process relevant to your students by adapting resources or providing examples that reflect the student’s experiences. You try to integrate cultural diversity as a topic in your teaching beyond prescribed moments in the curriculum.

Take a look at this table with the different answer options to see other ways how cultural diversity can be addressed in the classroom.

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LANGUAGE
PEDAGOGY
SOCIAL IDENTITY
PARENT INVOLVEMENT
BUILDING UP COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS

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DIFFERENT IS OK

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WILLINGNESS TO TRY  THINGS THAT ARE NEW

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Module 1: Developing intercultural competences

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Module 1: Developing intercultural competences

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A first step in becoming an interculturally competent teacher is to think about our own cultural values, beliefs, traditions, etc. and how these impact on our use of language and actions in the classroom as well as our perceptions of our students.
DO I KNOW WHO I AM?

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I'm Costanza and I teach English as a foreign language in a secondary school in Finale Emilia. My students are 14-19 years old.
I'm an active eTwinner and a life-long learner.