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We must learn to accept those we don't know, which means we must have open mind so we can show interest for those around us.

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Acceptance is very important for my opinion because this means that we accept the differential. On the other hand i think that we need to involve the parents more in the education as they need to understand and to feel that the " new country" accept and help them to restart their life and to go furthe

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In my opinion, as a teacher I have to have such competent to share them with my students/

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Being able to increase knowledge through experience that every member of the community is the bearer is the goal that an entire society should ask yourself. The wealth of other cuture that offers unprecedented horizons otherwise it is mandatory to explore it. Globalization must not be only economic but also cultural.

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Being able to increase knowledge through experience that every member of the community is the bearer is the goal that an entire society should ask yourself. The wealth of other cuture that offers unprecedented horizons otherwise it is mandatory to explore it. Globalization must not be only economic but also cultural.

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Anastasia, Italy Ithink it is important to create a positive atmosphere and  respect for all

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Anastasia, Italy Ithink it is important to create a positive atmosphere and  respect for all

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Intercultural education should not be limited exclusively to the transmission of specific content within a particular discipline, strengthening its interdisciplinary approach is fundamental; It can not be conceived only for schools but also about the extracurricular (family, social groups, institutions, communities, media). It also noted a change in the teacher's role, beyond function to communicate models and programs, it must pay more attention to the spirit of initiative and creativity, the whole action being student centered.
The school's mission is to enable every child to grow, to develop mind, body and heart, so intelligence, sensitivity, creativity; allowing children to learn to live together with each other, with different people, to be able to handle progressively place in society, can become active citizens.
Interculturalism is before any respect differences. Teachers are guarantees these rigors of the spirit that watches over differences, to learn, to know and understand what binds us, what makes us similar, which brings us closer. We are different, but does not mean that one is better than the other, we all have a potential value equal. We all have a similar culture but at the same time and cultures. These related to our religion, our ethnic group, political values, social, families noastre.Unica possibility that people become united is to recognize and estimate their differences and similarities.

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I think is very important to create an atmosphere of open mind in the children about the Interculturality and the rispect for everybod

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As teachers we have a special duty/gift opening our students mind in order to respect what people are and what their tradition is.  Interculturality is  an outstanding element of the globalized work but it has to be considered as a competence to improve

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As teachers we have a special duty/gift opening our students mind in order to respect what people are and what their tradition is.  Interculturality is  an outstanding element of the globalized work but it has to be considered as a competence to improve

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I think it could be a very important hotpoint to create an atmosphere of open mind in all our students. They have to understand that the world is various and systems that seem different, in a mejor view, are very similar in what is very important at end.

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I think it's very important to teach respect for everybody and create a positive classroom atmosphere . To be an interculturally competent teacher is very important for our pupils.

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We need to know each other, to understaind our differences so we can all respect each other and treat equally.

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In my opinion it is important to create a positive classroom atmosphere where everyone feels included and respected. Teachers should listen to their students and give them the opportunity to talk and share information. One of the biggest problem is communication because they speak different languages. Then we have to work on their speaking skills.

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The most important thing from what haw been said is okay to come from a different cultural background. Children need to know that and teachers are responsible to let them know that is okay to speak their own language. As teather,we have also to show them how to respect each other.

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I believe it is most important to teach respect for others no matter what their background is. I find there a many prejudices in the student body as well as within the teachers. We are all people. I think it is important to guide the students to act respectful even though the prejudices exist. All of my classes involve cultural diversity . I still need to learn about the different cultures, their values and educational background and how to deal with this myself. My biggest problem is dealing with those who do not see the need for education.

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To be an interculturally competent teacher is not easy. Indeed, we need to be prepared to deal with diversity from a variety of perspectives. First, we need to know different cultures and values and be open to them, that is, we must like diversity and perceive it as something normal, not exceptional. Second, we need to be learners (and not only teachers). I mean, we must be open to new things and bring them to our class. Third, we must be able to create multicultural resources by integrating a variety of cultures in our lessons. Interculture should become a cross-curricular theme: teachers should cooperate to develop multicultural practices with their students.
Last but not least, teachers should reflect on their own culture: this is definitely the first step to be open to different cultures and to promote effective intercultural communication.

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In order to be a teacher in a class where you have a cultural diversity, we need to know the cultural values that students have. We must identify students' language, religious beliefs, financial situation and social ties.
We need the whole thing to provide intercultural education. We must increase our sufficiency. When communicating with children and their families, we must show respect and tolerance of love.

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I think it is important to teach respect, friendness, tolerance in order to prevent prejudice and racism. I think we have to reflect on our prejudices an how to eliminate them if we want to be effective intercultural teachers.

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Unfortunately, most of us have not been prepared for a linguistically and cultural diverse classroom. If we want to develop intercultural competence in our students we need to reflect on our own intercultural competence and that can be achieved not only learn from, but learn about our students.
Learning about each student’s culture and language provides a foundation that facilitate learning. Learning about students involves listening to them, interacting with them, and modeling for them.

And this way you can combine the parental involvement with the language and the social identity and all the above Mr.Tudjman mention to develop intercultural competence.

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Being aware of language acquisition processes is vital. I find offering opportunities for students to communicate with each other about their culture, origins and background as part of the learning programme (presentations, debates, writing and reading) is a very effective method of demonstrating respect for cultural diversity as well as making the most of the richness of what it offers. I also find that asking students and their parents for their advice and input is valuable learning for everyone.

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In my opinion, Intercultural Education is a priority of the European Union, as the migration from a country to another is easier and every citizen experiences a lot of kind of diversity: cultural, age, material situation, educational situation, etc.

Cultural diversity provides many opportunities, such as

·  Providing opportunities for all students to learn from other students who are different.Cultural diversity gives students a chance to learn about different languages, customs, and worldviews.

·  Reducing ignorance that comes from lack of exposure. Oftentimes, when students only interact with persons who share the same background, they become blind to other ways of seeing and doing things. This cultural isolation frequently works to their disadvantage.

·  Providing opportunities for all students to develop cross-cultural competence. Through everyday activities in diverse school settings, students are challenged to find ways of interacting effectively with students who are culturally different. In so doing, they develop important skills in cross-cultural competence.

·  Preparing students for the real world. Similar to inclusion, giving students opportunities to interact with diverse individuals in their school experiences better prepares them to do so as adults in the workplace.

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I think that we should work above all on pedagogy, in order to develop a deeper respect for what is "different", to avoid the danger of cultural centrality and improve cultural curiosity in students. Different means new to me, and this is the basis of knoledge and growing. The biggest challenge is making students reflect on this, make them understand the social importance of intercultural dialogue.

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Alicia Erika  say a lot of sharable ideas. first: start from themselves(Socrate teach"Gnose te ipsum")
second: accept others
as well as it is with its lights and its shadows.

third: reflect and make students understand all cultures are equal, not only the culture of the country where they live. I believe this is the most important task of multicultural teaching: to teach the students to know their cultural identity and at the same time to respect other students' cultures.
About Tomislav's speech
LANGUAGE : try to improve foreign and mother tongue language skills of all school actors.

PEDAGOGY
learn about tools, methods, activities to promote dialogue,  learning and inclusive education.

SOCIAL IDENTITY
use of theater techniques, philosophy and free conversation

to know: Who am I?
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
COMMUNITY
create convivial situations through a party, informal meetings, cineforum, dancing, tasting of food from the own country  to facilitate the meeting of people and try to loose our fears about different people.

RELATIONSHIPS
take care of relations, use the right words to encourage,
without judging and smile.

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according to me the most important point underlined is that a teacher should transfer to students the idea od seeing diversity not as a menace but as an opportunity of growth that can enrich your life

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I think that the most important area outlined by Alicia, Erika and Tomislav is the affective one, because a teacher has to get in touch with a migrant student first of all on an emotional level, above all when he is newly arrived and he doesn't know the language at all. A teacher should put him at ease and introduce him to the rest of the class as an important and completely equal peer to the rest of the class. Than, little by little, thanks to a lot of different "social" activities he has to create a climate of positive relationships first and friendship later, in order to let a worthwhile exchange of culture, religion, traditions, language and so on. Only if we "know" what is different from us we aren't afraid of it and we learn to appreciate and consider it as  richness for ourselves.

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I believe that it is important to show students that belonging to a cultural diverse classroom is something that will benefit them in the long run. They will be able to learn more about their ever-changing world and be grateful for having such  an experience.

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Teachers must encourage integration in the classrom. They are the key to create positive relationships between their students.

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I agree with Erika about the importance of knowing our own cultural background. A teacher must know the costumes and mentality of his/her own country, but at the same time he/she must respect and accept new traditions and habits. It is really important, as Alicia said, to make students understand all cultures are equal, not only the culture of the country where they live. I believe this is the most important task of multicultural teaching: to teach the students to know their cultural identity and at the same time to respect other students' cultures.

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I am absolutely convinced that to develop real intercultural competence it is necessary to reflect on the values ​​in general, on the “value difference” in particular. My thought is this sythesized from these words that represent for me a kind of “manifesto"
 "When you come back to school looks good all your
classmates and you will notice that they are all differentthem, and this difference is a good thing.It is a good opportunity for humanity.Those children come from different horizons,They are able to give you things you have not,as you can give them something that they do not know.The mixture is a mutual enrichment.Know that each face is a miracle. It's only.You will never find two completely identical faces.Each face is the symbol of life and every life deserves respect."From T. B. Jelloun, Racism Explained to My Daughter.
However, one aspect is particularly close to my heart and that is the parental involvement.
Today the daily lives of many children, teens and adults is characterized by the encounter with the “other”.The differences are not only evoked, sought after, feared as possible events located elsewhere, but I'm here, living spaces and common areas.The inclusion of children who came from afar, with different histories and cultural affiliations, and the relationship with foreign parent fee for educators and teachers a confrontation with different views, with other modes of communication with other beliefs and valuesThe questions are many. How to communicate emotions, rules, daily indications in children and adults who speak a different language? How to propose a comparison with the differences - somatic, religious, cultural, linguistic? How to welcome in places of all, without denying and devalue the history, references and memberships of each? How to handle the differences in school and avoid trivializing or emphasize them.Foreign parents of the children are in school the first area of ​​everyday communication with the host society. In many cases they access them with feelings of fear and distrust, as well as with high expectations, since they are to entrust their children to an institution "other" language, values, religion, practices. But the erosion of fear of the culture of origin, can result in premature acculturation, it is set aside and passed in the name of the project success of their children.

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I agree with everthing had been said since as a teachers we must encourage integration in class. Integration starts in class indeed. Teachers are the key to create positive relationships between their students.

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I've always been a little bit intercultural. When teaching 'where are you from?' to my students I've always added to the flags all those from their native countries. When preparing a Christmas poster I asked the parents to write a Christmas wish in their own language. I need to improve introducing festivals from their countries and maybe speaking about food we could add a special dish from other countries or talking about clothes I could add flash cards with chador... and so on

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What I find most interesting from these videos are:
-Our personal attitude as teachers. How we face on our sitution in the classroon. If we are prepared or not. What are our pesonal values....Really, really important beacause we are going to work from this point (and we are going to transmit it).
-Pedagogy: "in different situations, different ways". We should adapt our way of working to every enviroment.
-Language, people who come to our school have to learn our lenguage, but...why not to bring closer to theirs?
-Parent involvement: I actually believe in the effectiveness o a net formed by familly and school.

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I find the videos meaningful and interesting. Personally believe skills of an interculturally competent teacher include the ability to: be flexible, to  have a positive attitude towards the target culture and an open mind towards other cultures, to facilitate      discussion        among students            with     a     variety of communication styles, finally to model     and encourage non-judgemental approaches to discussing         cultural,          social, or        other   types   of difference.

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I agree with Alicia when she says to be open. Also Tomislav thinks the language and the pedagogy may be important. I think need to know people. I love my country, its culture and literature. I respect the culture of the others, but I am curious to learn something and I'd like to

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Brunella from Italy. Every teacher must know the culture of his/her students because it's most important know habits, ideologies... for to teach in the best way. The first thing is to apply an educational inclusion where the pupils can feel part of group. It's important the respect for every culture. Than the teacher must have the patience to wait for the pupils learn the L2 language, for communicate with the other students, their needs. At first the teacher can use the pictures with the corresponding written for help the student to learn the new language.

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Brunella from Italy. Every teacher must know the culture of his/her students because it's most important know habits, ideologies... for to teach in the best way. The first thing is to apply an educational inclusion where the pupils can feel part of group. It's important the respect for every culture. Than the teacher must have the patience to wait for the pupils learn the L2 language, for communicate with the other students, their needs. At first the teacher can use the pictures with the corresponding written for help the student to learn the new language.

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The task of the school is to help the class EVERY student to feel part of a group.The teacher MUST foster a climate of acceptance and promote communication between school and family and Territory.

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I absolutely agree whith which was said in the videos.
As teachers, we must known that integration begins in class and do our best to create positive relationships, in order to contrast racism  and discrimination.

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It is necessary that our students recognise their position in the cultural chart of their country, eventually in the world. First, as the video demonstrates, students need to realize who they are in order to appreciate different cultural values and foster difference as something positive! Of course, the teacher leads the way to such a mentality, in order to bring his/her class to the highest levels of tolerance and peaceful co-existence.

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I'm focusing especially on the teachers' questions suggested by Erika: "what are my values?". Regarding Tomislav, I found interesting the emphasize on the parental involvement.

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I agree with all that has been said in the video. I believe that developing the different languages, the pedagogical idetità of the various disciplines, social identity and especially the involvement of parents even in the projects organized by students and teachers is fundamental to developing inclusive learning environments for all students. In Italy we work a lot for interdisciplinary projects and often seek to take into account the different cultures in the classroom. This is a first step, but there is still some way to go to make the most of the multicultural school.

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I absolutely agree whith which was said in the videos.
As teachers, we must known that integration begins in class and do our best to create positive relationships, in order to contrast racism  and discrimination.

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The most important things to think of are to create activities in class with intercultural topics. As Alicia mentionned "to make them feel normal". Adapting material , creating intercultural lessons, not be afraid of new situations, accepting not to know everything but being a longlife learning teacher

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I found videos of Alicia, Erika and Tomislav very interesting. I think it's important to find out what are the backgrounds (family, cultural, religios...). The teachers have to be open minded, respect all differences and build common values. I agree with Tomislav on parental involvement because they essential for students.

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It's clear that a teacher should be open-minded and be aware that different culture could have different values, witness. The first step is to be aware and to be ready to live the difference. To give a right place to different culturees is a prerequisite, I agree with the idea that the teacher should be ready to learn from different cultures so they can integrate diverse resources .

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i really appreciate the contributions, specially the one that speaks about  "to be conscious about ourself and our truth really point of view" i think this is a
very important step to discover really who we are, because in many cases racism and xenophobia are very well hidden! then i really like the idea to be openminded, with a lot of questions and not only answers, to speak about migration in the classroom and to use many examples in our lessons where we represent the entire world, not only a culture, because the world is really full of different way to live and think so the modern classroom is a good mirror about this, and we have to be good director  of this various world. Maybe also the schools programs have to be changed i think, a good first institutional step to do! i hope to improve all these things i mean.

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- define your background (religion, family, education)
- allow the students to be different, to speak their language
- to be open and to experiment
- all cultures are equally important
- to show curiosity about different countries
- living by example
-  use many resources
-  different languages, pedagogy, social identity, parental involvment, community relationships

The most important area to work on at least at the beginning is to have a social identity that doesnt get easily influenced when the work conditions are difficult.

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I agree with Alicia and Erika. It is important to reflect on our cultural values. And this can be related to what Ivana (Italy) says below: “First, we must know who we are and how we perceive other people different from us”. I would like to add that both teachers and students must know their cultural background. It is essential because it helps them build their cultural identity.  It is the first step. And then they can learn how to accept other point of views and embrace diversity. It is ok to be different! Teachers can use new and flexible ways to teach and they can learn with students how different worlds can coexist.

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Italy is the first country that recive a lot migrants. I agree with Tomislav, I think the relationships are the most important steps to recive immigrats. I talk with my foreign students about their origin countries, their traditions, their food or drink.. I think this is important for theirs and for their italian friends know about their world, because it help emphathy.

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I completely agree with Tomislav. As a teacher I must developo al 5 acpects.

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I  agree with the statements in the videos.
True integration starts in the classrooms.
I have experimented intercultural education.
In my school, there are 20% of students with different cultural background.
It's important to create suitable paths, where each kid feels a part of the group. I think that teachers have to be open minded and respect all differences. They have to understand their personality, their culture and their needs.

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I agree with Alicia, Erika and Tomislav ‘s opinion. In my oppinion, I think we need to work the most on parent's involvement, colaboration.

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I' ve just given a look around the padlet and it's important to notice that a high number  of participants are from Italy, and that is because Italy is the first country migrants can reach to enter in Europe. I agree with Alicia, Erika and Tomislav, but much more with Tomislav because parental involvement and social relationship help the process of "welcoming". I don't agree the word "Integration" because it sounds like losing or abandoning some aspect of my origins. Teachers must promote the exchange of informations and meeting time.

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Consistent exposure to positive role models is the best way to "learn" respect naturally and build common values while respecting the diversity of cultures and traditions in the classroom.

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The most important area for me of those heard on the videos are that teachers should lead by example, the parental involvement and the knowledge of social identity. I find really challenging the fight against racism and xenophobia which sometimes is really well-hidden and comes from the family background, so it could be a dangerous zone to step in. It needs to be dealt with carefully. I feel I need to work more on this exact area, that is of finding a way to fight it patiently. Also, a big challenge for me is to be able to integrate topics of migration and of different cultures in my classes of maths.

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I'm agree with the importance of start integration inside the class and much more in family.

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I think reflecting my own cultural values and parental involvement are the most important areas, which I also think I need to work the most on. Racism is a very difficult thing to deal with, especially when it is based on family opinions, thus it's a real challenge to try and change a child's point of view in a multicultural classroom.

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I find the parameters outlined by Tomislav, to the point and very realistic. I share Erika's point of view and I totally agree that addresing diversity shouldnt just be in the form of a project or just deal with it for two hours, talk about it and then forget it. It should go through the whole schoollife and continuously throughout the whole year through adjustment of materials and cultural fairs and food sharing etc.

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The problem is very serious. It must be ever more prepared.
Background at the base. But remember that integration begins in classroom.

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My opinion is that three opinion are important and they are completed one each other.
Teacher in his work needs to know their background:  cultural, family or religious.
Like is very important teaching mode, it should not only to transmit knowledge, but teacher should to help his pupils to see cultural diversity like a richness and to be proud of its cultural identity.
It's also important, when we teach,  using didactic material that corresponding to cultural differences and teacher should to know  their background.
All is important: language, pedagogy, social identity, parents involvement, psychology, but the most important, for me, is teacher to be opened to know true pupils reality, to be welcoming,  to be curious. If he's having those behaviors and professional knowledge, he can develop intercultural competences.

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In my opinion all the area that Alicia, Erika and Tomislav have outlined, could be considered useful and important to develop in a classroom in order to make it intercultural. Maybe the first area that I think I need to work the most on is the social identity related to the community relationship becuase if it does not develop properly, it could represent a serious danger in the future. Only in this way students could learn to respect the opinions of others, are open to multiple perspectives on any issue and consequently they have mutual respect.
Especially with Alicia. I strongly believe it is important for teachers to be open to learn from cultural diversity

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I believe that reflections and ideas of Alicia, Erika and Tomislav are extremely important, but if I have to place them in a scale of priorities, I believe that the first objective for the development of intercultural competence is a reflection on our cultural awareness.

First, we must know who we are and how we perceive other people different from us

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Each speech of the instructors has a piece of truth inside. First of all, as Ms Erica mentioned is to identify ourselves and who we are. What are our values and our backgrounds and accept ourselves. If we succeed in this first step, it will be easier after to accept others and other ways of thinking. Second step as Ms Alicia mentioned, is to show the students who they really are and to help them to accept themselves and show them that nothing on this Earth is a copy of something else. For example if you observe a tree you will soon realise that non of its leaves is the same. And this is the beauty of the tree. Thirdly, teachers need to be openminded and supporting the acceptance in the class, so after the students will be free to reveal themselves and finally they will not be afraid to show who they are. In contrary, they will be proud of who they are. In conclusion, as Mr Tomislav said, teachers should have some needed skills to accomplish cultural diversity in the class. One of them is not to be xenophobic and to apply a pedagogical way of approaching and communicating with the children. Last but not least, parents are playing a significant role in their children school life and they need to be definitely involved.

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I agre with their speeches. Integration begins in classroom. Teachers and later (thanks to them) students should be open minded and curios to know, to learn from other ways of acting, of living of thinking. Teachers should use,integrate, work on different materials, different resources from different cultures.Teacher should be The first witness of The welcome,of The integration. The biggest challenge is this one.

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I agre with their speeches. Integration begins in classroom. Teachers and later (thanks to them) students should be open minded and curios to know, to learn from other ways of acting, of living of thinking. Teachers should use,integrate, work on different materials, different resources from different cultures.Teacher should be The first witness of The welcome,of The integration. The biggest challenge is this one.

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I think that we need to give everyone a chance to express their own culture and their way of thinking. Accepting each culture, and respect them it's very important and only doing it through dialogue and hospitality can be valorized diversity and reduced any kind of discrimination.

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All the areas outlined by relators are important. I found interesting especially Alicia’s intervention: teachers should be open to experiment, to try new things; teachers have to be an example of open-mindedness and curiosity towards diversity. I hope to improve this aspects because I think that a teacher can educate especially with his attitude and his behaviour.

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All of the areas that Alicia, Erika and Tomislav outline are equally important. Each of them has its own importance. Considering all of them, can help us improve the  way we handle diversity.
I believe that it is important to know who we are. Thats the first step. We should be opened, in any way, towards other people. When we respect and accept anyone who is different, when we are curious about learning new things, when we believe that though we are all different we are all equall, then we are an example to emulate for our students.

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I think I should work most on social identity and the way in which this is integrated in the class in a normalized way.

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I agree with the views of Alicia, Erika and Tomislav. I think we need to give everyone a chance to express themselves, demonstrate their skills, present their culture and religion. We need to give everyone a feeling that is accepted in class.

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Everyone is unique. Accepting each culture is very important. Intercultural skills, knowledge and attitudes in support teacher to help students to integrate into the community as well.

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I think that everyone is a single person, everyone is different. A teacher must listen all the students and be open mind. I try to help my students to feel part of a group where everyone feel well and accepted.  Collaborative learning is a good way of working to achieve a respectful and welcoming atmosphere.

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I agree with all of them.
First of all we as teachers must be openminded and welcoming. Our cultural background, our experiences  and personal approach, curiosity to know different cultures is  a model for the students.
Knowing and working on ourselves is the first step for a constructive  approach to other peole. Another important aspect is  a deeper knowledge of  our children families,  also involving them in some school  activities for example.
Of course cultural diversity must become a cross curricular theme. It must give new direction and aims to our  planning and teaching strategies.

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I mean it's important to accept other views of thinking and to be open to try new things. I agree teachers must integrate different resources and materials from different cultures in their lessons. Intercultural diversity must be a cross-curriculur theme.
I find all five areas that Tomislav underlined are important.

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Alicia, Erica and Tomislav address very important aspects of intercultural competences that we should have as teachers. In my opinion, the most important among them is the understanding of ourselves before we try to understand the others. Of course I need to work more on self-understanding, as well as with my students’ families. The biggest challenge for me in becoming a multicultural teacher is overcoming the way we have learnt to live and our concrete belies in order to understand other people and their cultures or way of living.

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The only real way for students to develop significant intercultural competence is for them to meet and interact with people of other cultures.  This can be hard for the teacher to arrange, but using  Internet, maybe not as hard as it once was.

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I agree with Alicia what is said in the videos. Integration begins inside the class.  I agree with Erika when she says that an intercultural teacher should be open-minded and curious.

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I agree with Alicia. I think that we could learn from each other,so social identity and parental involvement are important. We can try new things, we can do new experiences. Divercities are important. We have to move out from our "confort-zone" and have open-mind to create good relation and a good society

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Equality and respect for each other's differences is the most important values. Positive attitude of the teacher, Who talks with His students, about cultural diversity, is very important.

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I think that what Alicia said is very interesting: we have to keep in mind  who we are and from where we come before trying to understand other people. In particular, as teachers, we should reflect on our background and on our values.
I agree with Erika when she says that an intercultural teacher should be open-minded and curious even and first of all in his/her attitude.
The biggest challenge for me in becoming an intercultural teacher would be to avoid to take something for granted in culturally different attitude and to have a positive interest towards differences.
To do this I think that I would need to work the most on the awareness of what I am and where I want to arrive

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In my opinion, Alicia was the one who gave us the most important suggestions. In particular, I appreciated the concept of the teacher as the one who does not have all the answers, who has to be curious and to constantly move outside his/her comfort zone (btw, I really liked the video Muriel from Belgium posted).
At the same time, I feel that I really need to work on these areas, since sometimes our job's constraints and uncertainties really make it difficult not to look for something "certain" to stick to.
Another challenge may be represented by the role of parents as highlighted by Tomislav, since many foreign students' parents are not that willing to cooperate with schools or even to recognize their role in helping raise their children.

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I really appreciated Alicia's speech, especially when she says that teachers have to be curious and eager to learn instead of thinking that their only duty is to transmit what they know

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I agree with what was said in the videos.
When you want to teach an attitude,  the main factor is the example. So if we want our students to be openmind, curious, open, eager to learn, we have to be ourselves. If we value the culture and the countries of our foreign students in school activities, the students will be taken to respect them.

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I agree with what is said in the videos. Integration begins inside the class.

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I agree with what is said in the videos. Integration begins inside the class.

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Anna, Italy

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Alicia highlights the importance of teaching by example. As teachers, we sometimes forget to include multicultural ressources in our lessons which is really not so difficult to do if we are aware of it. I was thinking about the textbook I'm using and publishers are really trying to focus on multiculturality by using people from different cultural backgrounds, with different accents and names of different origins. This evolution is very noticeable and definitely quite important. The area Alicia also mentions which I really need to work on is to move out of my comfort zone. Below you can see a video I watched on the Internet yesterday which highlights the ability to move out of one's comfort zone in order to reach the learning zone. As teachers, we must remain lifelong learners, including learning about other cultures and we have to accept that we don't know all the cultures our students could share. Trying new things, giving importance to students' cultural background can be out of our comfort zone but an invaluable learning tool for other pupils and for us.

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I agree with what is said video, is it true that in order to achieve acceptance of different cultures among the students in our classrooms, we must be the first teachers to have attitudes of welcome, only in this way can we be credible witnesses for our students.

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I fully agree with what is said in the two videos, certainly true that in order to achieve acceptance of different cultures in our classrooms, we must be the first teachers to have attitudes of welcome, just so we can be credible witnesses for our students.

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I agree with the views presented in the videos. All areas are important. I think that I need to work the most on my cultural background: this consciousness is the key to become an interculturally competent teacher.

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I completely agree with the affirmation in the video. Integration has to start inside the classes and students have to be put in condition to learn in tranquillity

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It's very important to keep our soul, heart and mind open to the other, beeing empatic. All the knowledge we can achieve in languages, pedagogy, methods, etc. would be not effective.

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I'm agree with all videos. Competence of Teacher I think start from background, open mind, confirm issue adapt, with pedagogic attention to students. Material, didattic, dialogare, extraschool are basic elements to bring new rich into the classroom.

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Claudia Renda Italy
I watched the videos

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1.2 Developing intercultural competence as a teacher.
I think there are many areas that interweave and through their interaction emerge the necessity of the approval of the diversity as a human wealth. After that all my  pedagogical acts would support the interaction among children with respect to their educational needs.

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I agree with all of them.
I think that actions of integrations must be oriented to give hospitality with actions of intercultural dialogue aimed at the creation of a pluralistic climate. All these actions have to valorize diversities with equal dignity.
The pedagogical action of the intercultural teacher must create positive relationships in order to contrast prejudices, racism and discrimination.

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Watching Ms. Hummer talking, I could not help but acknowledge the importance of what she says. I have been in german speaking countries as a tourist to live the culture, the mentality and the language and I have never had any discrimination whatsoever. I ‘ve felt equal and well accepted in all classes, in everyday life, eating, shopping, whatever I might have been doing. This is the exact same feeling that I want my students to feel, and this is what I mainly focus on before trying to teach them a language. They are accepted in my classroom, they are welcome both by me and all the students I have in my class. I try to make them all understand from the first lessons that we are a group that works with each other and diversity is fine by all members in this group. Of course sometimes I have to work harder but it is worth the effort. And when the outcome is good (and I try to make sure of it), combined effort success unites my students even more, no matter their previous differences.

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Teaching deaf students is different. Firstly, as a teacher, you have to identify and understand their needs, to know their personal and social background, to use special methods and instruments of teaching, and the most important thing, you have to know the sign language. I find all these things similar to the ones about teaching students of other cultures. I agree with Alicia and Erika, but the perspective of Tomislav is more concrete. Personality, pedagogy, didactics, psychology, language and family background, all together, are a real help for the teacher. Having known all these things, a teacher can create different activities.

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Teaching deaf students is different. Firstly, as a teacher, you have to identify and understand their needs, to know their personal and social background, to use special methods and instruments of teaching, and the most important thing, you have to know the sign language. I find all these things similar to the ones about teaching students of other cultures. I agree with Alicia and Erika, but the perspective of Tomislav is more concrete. Personality, pedagogy, didactics, psychology, language and family background, all together, are a real help for the teacher. Having known all these things, a teacher can create different activities.

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In my opinion the biggest challenge is that our own background can influence; since every kind of culture is ok, we can be proud to be Italian, or Chinese, or Indian as well, while being interested in other countries in the meantime. The way we teach depends from the learning group; parental involvement is very important in my personal working experience

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I aeree with Alicia. I thitnk that it is better to work in a collaborative class so students can be understood.

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I have no experience in intercultural education. I believe that is important to be open minded, to learn with and from your students, try to understand their personality and their needs.

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In order to create an intercultural environment in our classes, each kid has to feel part of the group. They have to feel proud of their identity and free to share their beliefs with their peers. As Alicia well depicted, diversity should be part of our daily lessons as it is part of our daily life. "Being diverse" is not weird, it is normal because we all are diverse. So we do not have necessarily to plan specific intercultural lessons or modules, but we can simply adapt our daily lessons to be "interculturally-friendly". Choosing a particular topic for our readings or names of people from different countries around the world for our role-plays are simple techniques to involve all the students.
sharing our own beliefs with other and being open to learn from them means being well aware of our culture, customs and traditions, as Erika said.
Finally, being a language teacher, I could not agree more with Tomislav when he highlights the importance of language in the intercultural process. Language and culture are strongly connected and we all should be well aware of the implications of culture in the language learning process and vice versa.